Umberto Trippa

Umberto Trippa (born April 6, 1931 in Terni ) is a former Italian wrestler and vice world champion in 1953 in Greco-Roman. Featherweight style.

Career

Umberto Trippa began as a teenager with rings . He specialized in the Greco-Roman. Style. In 1952 he was the first Italian featherweight champion and then represented his country at the Summer Olympics in Helsinki . With three wins and one defeat, he finished 4th and just barely missed the bronze medal.

At the 1953 World Cup in their own country, Trippa was runner-up in Naples . He defeated four wrestlers, including the strong Hungarian Imre Polyák and only suffered a defeat from the old warrior Olle Anderberg from Sweden .

Trippa also delivered good fights at the World Cup in Karlsruhe in 1955 . He defeated the high favorite there in the first round, the Soviet athlete Artem Terjan, and after defeats to Roger Bielle from France and Gunnar Hakansson from Sweden in the fourth and fifth round, he finished fifth.

1956 Trippa took part in Melbourne for the second time in the Olympic Games. He won over the Romanian Ion Popescu , but was eliminated after defeat against Polyák u. Roman Dzneladze from the Soviet Union and came in 6th place.

In 1960 Trippa competed in Rome for the third time at the Olympic Games. And again he just missed a medal with 4th place. The decisive factor was that after three wins on points, in which he was burdened with a missing point in each case, the defeat against Konstantin Vyrupayev from the USSR caused his departure just before the final round.

After the Olympic Games in Rome Umberto Trippa ended his career as an active wrestler.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Fe = featherweight, at that time up to 62 kg body weight)

• 1951, 2nd place , Mediterranean Games, GR, Fe;
• 1952, 4th place , OS in Helsinki , GR, Fe, with victories over Dagfin Huseby, Norway , Rolf Ellerbrock, Germany a . Bartholomäus Brötzner , Austria a . a loss to Abdel Rashed, Egypt ;
• 1953, 2nd place , World Cup in Naples , GR, Fe, with victories over Ruevan Benker, Israel , Elie Naasan , Lebanon , Petter Nordlund, Norway, Imre Polyák , Hungary a . Roman Heller, Austria a. a loss to Olle Anderberg , Sweden ;
• 1955, 2nd place , Mediterranean Games in Barcelona , GR, Fe, behind Rıza Doğan , Turkey a . before Elie Naasan;
• 1955, 5th place , World Championships in Karlsruhe , GR, Fe, with victories over Artem Terjan , USSR , Erkki Talosela, Finland a . Hendrik Alflen, Netherlands a . Defeats against Roger Bielle , France a . Gunnar Hakansson , Sweden;
• 1956, 6th place , OS in Melbourne , GR, Fe, with a victory over Ion Popescu , Romania a . Defeats against Imre Polyák u. Roman Dzneladze , USSR;
• 1958, 2nd place , tournament in Udine , GR, Fe, behind Vojislav Golosin, Yugoslavia a . before Johann Marte, Austria;
• 1960, 4th place , OS in Rome , GR, Fe, with victories over Roger Mannhard, France, Rudolf Petersen, Denmark , Johann Marte u. Spas Penew, Bulgaria a . a loss to Konstantin Vyrupayev , USSR

Italian championships

Umberto Trippa was six times Italian champion in Greco-Roman. Featherweight style.

swell

• 1) Div. Issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1951 to 1960,
• 2) Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA, 1976

Web links

Commons : Umberto Trippa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Overview of the medal winners at world championships in Greco-Roman. Featherweight style
• Umberto Trippa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )