Stefan Petrow

Stefan Petrow ( Bulgarian Стефан Петров , English transcription Stefan Petrov ; born May 19, 1936 in Stara Sagora ) is a former Bulgarian wrestler . He was vice world champion in 1969 in the Greco-Roman style in the heavyweight division.

Career

Stefan Petrow began wrestling as a teenager. He came to the Bulgarian national team of wrestlers in the Greco-Roman style in the early 1960s. He was trained in the national team by Lyuben Brusew, Swetoslaw Stoitschew, Dimitar Dobrew and Philip Kriwiralchew. Although he had tough competition in Bulgaria in his weight class, the light heavyweight (up to 97 kg body weight) and from 1969 in the heavyweight division (up to 100 kg body weight) (e.g. the two-time Olympic champion Bojan Radew in 1964 and 1968 ), he came to an agreement Use in international championships.

In 1963 he started in the Bulgarian team in an international match against the Federal Republic of Germany and defeated the German champion Johann Meilhammer in the light heavyweight division . In 1964 he won at the renowned "Iwan-Poddubny" tournament in Moscow behind Rostom Abashidze from the USSR a . Lucjan Sosnowski from Poland took 3rd place.

In 1966 he won in Ljubljana at the Balkan Games in the light heavyweight division in front of the Turk Gürbüz Lü and the Yugoslav Josip Čorak . In the same year it was used for the first time at an international championship, the European championship in Essen . He came there to victories over the strong Poles Czesław Kwieciński and Eugen Wiesberger from Austria , but lost to Nicolae Martinescu from Romania and Per Svensson from Sweden and came in the ungrateful, because medalless, 4th place.

At the European Championships in 1967 in Minsk Stefen Petrow brought a light heavyweight victory over Heinz Kiehl from Germany , a draw against Nicolae Martinescu and a defeat against Ferenc Kiss from Hungary in 9th place. At the World Cup in Bucharest in 1967 he was used in the heavyweight division (weight class over 100 kg body weight). There he defeated the Swiss Karl Bachmann and managed the feat of wrestling against the 45 kg heavier Olympic champion from 1964 István Kozma from Hungary . The next fight against the multiple world champion Anatoli Roschtschin from the USSR he lost on points, with which he was eliminated and took a good 6th place.

Stefan Petrow was also used in the heavyweight division at the 1968 European Championships in Västerås . He defeated the Romanian Constantin Busoiu there, fought against Ragnar Svensson from Sweden in a draw and was defeated by the Czech Petr Kment . With these results he finished 9th. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , his compatriot Bojan Radew started in the traditional weight class of Stefan Petrow, the light heavyweight, and became Olympic champion . Stefan Petrow had to switch back to the heavyweight division, for which he was actually much too easy. Nevertheless, he came to victories over Roland Bock from Germany and Robert Roop from the United States. He lost to Anatoli Roschtschin and István Kozma and came in 6th place in the final result.

At the world championship taking place in Mar del Plata in March 1969, 10 instead of the previous 8 weight classes were advertised for the first time after a weight class reform by the international wrestling federation (FILA). Stefan Petrow fought in the heavyweight division, which now reached up to 100 kg. In addition, from 1969 there was a new weight class, the super heavyweight (over 100 kg body weight). Stefan Petrow defeated Siegfried Hell from Switzerland and Tore Hem from Norway in Mar del Plata and fought against Nikolai Jakowenko from the USSR. These results were enough for him to become vice world champion at this weakly manned world championship.

In 1970 Stefan Petrow competed again at the World Championships in Edmonton . In the heavyweight division he came to victories over Rudolf Lüscher from Switzerland a . Wacław Orłowski from Poland, while he fought against Ferenc Kiss from Hungary and Giyasettin Yilmaz from Turkey. He ended up in 4th place.

After that he was no longer at the start of any international championships.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1964	3.	"Ivan Poddubny Rurnier" in Moscow	Semi-difficult	behind Rostom Abaschidze , USSR a . Lucjan Sosnowski , Poland
1966	1.	Balkan Games in Ljubljana	Semi-difficult	in front of Gürbüz Lü , Turkey a . Josip Čorak , Yugoslavia
1966	4th	EM in Essen	Semi-difficult	with victories over Czesław Kwieciński , Poland a. Eugen Wiesberger, Austria a . Defeats against Nicolae Martinescu , Romania a . Per Svensson , Sweden
1967	6th	"Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Moscow	Semi-difficult	behind Wassili Merkulow u. Nikolai Jakowenko , bde. USSR, Ferenc Kiss , Hungary , Aimo Mänenpää , Finland a . Vasily Kot, USSR
1967	9.	EM in Minsk	Semi-difficult	with a victory over Heinz Kiehl , BRD , a draw against Nicolae Martinescu u. a loss to Ferenc Kiss
1967	6th	EM in Bucharest	Heavy	with a victory over Karl Bachmann, Switzerland, a draw against István Kozma , Hungary a. a loss to Anatoly Roschtschin , USSR
1968	9.	EM in Västerås	Heavy	with a win over Constantin Busoiu, Romania, a draw against Ragnar Svensson , Sweden a. a loss to Petr Kment , CSSR
1968	6th	OS in Mexico City	Heavy	with victories over Roland Bock , BRD a. Robert Roop , USA and losses to Anatoli Roschtschin and István Kozma
1969	2.	World Cup in Mar del Plata	Heavy	with victories over Siegfried Hell, Switzerland a. Tore Hem , Norway a . a tie against Nikolai Jakowenko, USSR
1970	4th	World Cup in Edmonton	Heavy	with victories over Rudolf Lüscher, Switzerland a. Wacław Orłowski , Poland and a tie against Ferenc Kiss u Giyasettin Yilmaz , Turkey

Note: all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, light heavyweight, up to 97 kg up to 1968, then up to 90 kg body weight, heavyweight, up to 1968 over 97 kg, then up to 100 kg, super heavyweight, from 1969 over 100 kg body weight

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• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976,
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Athletics magazine

Web links

• Profile of Stefan Petrov at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Stefan Petrov in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )