Roman Wrocławski

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Roman Wrocławski (born July 13, 1955 in Piotrków Trybunalski ) is a former Polish wrestler . He was world heavyweight champion in 1982 in the Greco-Roman style .

Career

Roman Wrocławski started as a teenager at the KS “Wisłoka” Dębica sports club , a club that was one of the leading wrestling clubs in Poland at the time and which also included the world champions Kazimierz and Józef Lipień. He concentrated fully on the Greco-Roman style.

Even as a junior he showed his excellent disposition. In 1974 she finished 5th at the European Junior Championships in Haparanda, Finland, in the light heavyweight division, and a year later he even won the bronze medal at the World Junior Championships in Chaskowo in the light heavyweight division.

In the senior class in Poland in those years in his weight class in the world class wrestlers Czesław Kwieciński , Roman Bierla u. Andrzej Skrzydlewski tough competitors. However, it was used in international championships from 1976. In 1976 he was at the European light heavyweight championships in Leningrad . There he only won over the Romanian Petre Dicu and after a defeat against world champion Frank Andersson from Sweden only finished 9th.

He did much better at the 1977 European Championships in Bursa . He got three victories there, u. a. he won over Hans-Günter Klein from Germany . Against Airapet Minassjan from the USSR and against Frank Andersson he could not yet exist and, after losing to these two wrestlers, came in 4th place in the light heavyweight division.

Roman Wrocławski then cut off weaker at the 1979 European Championships in Bucharest and at the 1981 European Championships in Gothenburg . He finished fifth and seventh in these championships in light heavyweight and heavyweight respectively. He was not used at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow .

Roman Wrocławski won the first medal at an international senior championship at the 1981 World Cup in Oslo . In the heavyweight division he won there a. a. about the Swede Christer Gulldén and the Bulgarian Andrej Dimitrow . He lost to Tamás Gáspár from Hungary and Greg Gibson from the USA and won the World Cup bronze medal .

In 1982 Roman Wrocławski fully concentrated on the World Cup in Katowice . This paid off, because he won the heavyweight world title there with five victories over consistently difficult opponents. He defeated one after Vasile Andrei , Romania , Andrei Dimitrov , Nikolai Inkow from the USSR , Jozef Tertei from Yugoslavia and Vladimir Bojko from Czechoslovakia . All wrestlers from the Eastern bloc states that dominated world events at the time. Roman Wrocławski's title win was well deserved.

In 1983 Roman Wrocławski could not defend this title. He retired early at the World Championships in Kiev and only finished 11th in the heavyweight division. In 1984 Roman Wrocławski wanted to try to become Olympic champion in 1984. But he already had bad luck at the European Championships this year in Jönköping , because he injured himself so badly in his first fight against Thomas Horschel from the GDR that he had to give up. The boycott of these games by the Eastern Bloc countries prevented him from participating in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles .

Roman Wroclawski completed his last starts at international championships in the super heavyweight division. In 1986 at the European Championships in Athens he came behind Nikola Dinew from Bulgaria, Nikolai Makarenko from the USSR a. Tomas Johansson from Sweden on a good 4th place. At the 1987 World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand , however, he only finished 11th. After a 7th place at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , he ended his international wrestling career.

International success

(WM = world championship, EM = European championship, GR = Greek-Roman style, F = free style, Hs = light heavyweight, S = heavyweight, SS = super heavyweight, back then up to 90 kg, 100 kg and 130 kg body weight)

  • 1975, 3rd place , Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Chaskowo , GR, Hs, behind Loos, USSR a. Valentin Stanojew, Bulgaria a. before Rolf Morsing, Sweden and Pedro Pawlidis , FRG;
  • 1977, 4th place , EM in Bursa , GR, Hs, with victories over Aslan Aslan, Darko Nišavić , Yugoslavia a . Hans-Günter Klein u. Defeats against Airaped Minsojan u. Frank Andersson;
  • 1979, 7th place , EM in Bucharest , GR, Hs, with victories over Aslan Aslan a. Giuseppe Vitucci, Italy and defeats against Norbert Növényi , Hungary a. Ivan Petrov, Bulgaria;
  • 1981, 5th place , Student World Cup in Bucharest, F, SS, behind Bruce Baumgartner , USA, Sergej Stoitchew, Bulgaria, Nikolai Skripkin, USSR a. Andrei Ianko, Romania
  • 1981, 3rd place , World Championships in Oslo , GR, S, with victories over Christer Gulldén, Geir Olsen, Norway a . Andrej Dimitrov u. Defeats to Tamás Gáspár and Gregory Gibson , USA ;
  • 1983, 11th place , World Championships in Kiev , GR, S, winner: Andrej Dimitrow ahead of Josef Tertelj u. Viktor Avdyshev , USSR;
  • 1984, unpl. , EM in Jönköping, GR, S, resigned after an injury in the first fight against Thomas Horschel , GDR ;
  • 1988, 7th place , OS in Seoul , GR, SS, loss to Rangel Gerowski

swell

  • Journal Der Ringer , Numbers: 6/7 (1977), page 6, 5/1979, page 10, 4/1981, page 8, 9/1961, page 6, 9/1982, pages 9-11, 5/1984, Page 9 and 5/1986, page 9,
  • Athletics magazine from 1974 to 1976,
  • Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976,
  • International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

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personal data
SURNAME Wrocławski, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Piotrków Trybunalski