Vasile Iorga

Vasile Iorga (born February 19, 1945 in Măraşu , Brăila County ) is a former Romanian wrestler . He was the winner of a bronze medal at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and vice- world champion and vice- European champion in free style in the middleweight division.

Career

Vasile Iorga began wrestling as a teenager in Brăila , where he became a member of the CS Progresul Brăila sports club . He focused on the free style and was trained by Alexandru Tătaru. He had reached the Romanian top class in 1968. He was used that year in Bucharest in an international match against the Federal Republic of Germany and defeated Reinhard Zeiher on points in the welterweight division .

In 1969 Vasile Iorga also started at an international championship for the first time. At the European Championships in Sofia he just missed a medal with a 4th place in the middleweight division. In 1970 Vasile Iorga stayed with the Romanian national wrestling team on an international battle trip in the Federal Republic of Germany and defeated Peter Neumair from Hallbergmoos , Adolf Seger from Freiburg and Lothar Dunke from Efferen . In the following years he won medals at nine international championships. His greatest success was winning the Olympic bronze medal at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich in the middleweight division. He wrestled against the eventual Olympic champion Levan Tediaschwili from the USSR , but lost to the American John Peterson (wrestler) .

In 1973 Vasile Iorga was runner- up middleweight world champion in Tehran . He only lost in the final against the Soviet Vasily Sjulschin . He had won this championship against the strong wrestlers Yosuke Nagano from Japan and Ismail Abilow from Bulgaria . Vasile Iorga won another runner-up title at the 1975 European Championship in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . Here he won u. a. via Günter Spindler from the GDR and Henryk Mazur from Poland , but lost to Ismail Abilow in the final.

Vasile Iorga also celebrated a great success at the European Championship in 1970 in East Berlin , where he took 3rd place in the middleweight division. But he managed a sensational victory over Olympic and world champion Lewin Tediaschwili at this event . Vasile Iorga made his last start at an international championship at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal . He was defeated there but after two victories against weaker opponents against the Soviet wrestler Viktor Novoshilov and against Ismail Abilov and only came in 9th place in the final result.

Vasile Iorga was a big starter during his career. He took part in an unusually large number of international tournaments and won a lot of them. He defeated world-class wrestlers like Adolf Seger from the Federal Republic of Germany, Benno Paulitz , Günter Spindler and Frank Birke from the GDR , Magomedchan Arazilow from the USSR , István Kovács and Károly Bajkó from Hungary , as well as Mehmet Uzun from Turkey and others. v. m.

Vasile Iorga was a member of the army, but worked after his active time as a trainer in Brăila. From 1990 to 1992 he was also president of the CS Progresul Brăila sports club. Now he's retired.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, We = welterweight, Wed = middleweight, back then up to 74 kg or 82 kg body weight)

• 1969, 1st place , intern. Tournament in Bucharest , F, Wed, before Tefik, Yugoslavia a . Vasile Tiganas, Romania ;
• 1969, 4th place , EM in Sofia , F, Wed, with victories over André Bouchoule , France a . Ronald Grinstead, Great Britain , a tie against Károly Bajkó , Hungary u. Defeats to Ivan Iliev , Bulgaria and Yuri Shachmuradow , USSR ;
• 1970, 3rd place , EM in Berlin (East), F, Wed, with victories over Giovanni Zardoni, Italy , Kurt Elmgren, Sweden and Lewan Tediaschwili , USSR, a draw against Jimmy Martinetti, Switzerland a. a loss to Daniel Robin , France;
• 1970, 3rd place , World Championships in Edmonton , F, Wed, with victories over Jim Gouros, South Africa , David Aspen, New Zealand a . Haci Soyer, Turkey , a tie against Horst Stottmeister , GDR a. Losses to Tatsuo Sasaki , Japan and Yuri Shakmuradow;
• 1971, 3rd place , World Cup in Sofia , F, Wed, with victories over Andras Deak, Hungary, Belgacem Ayari, Tunisia , Abboud, Iraq and others. Peter Neumair , Federal Republic of Germany a . Defeats to Horst Stottmeister and Lewan Tediaschwili;
• 1972, 1st place , intern. Tournament in Bucharest, F, Wed. in front of Andras Deak u. István Kovács , both Hungarians;
• 1972, 1st place , intern. Roman. Championship in Bucharest, F, Wed, before Károly Bajkó, Hungary a. Günter Spindler , GDR;
• 1972, bronze medal , OS in Munich , F, Wed, with victories over André Bouchoule, Jesus Blanco, Argentina , Jimmy Martinetti u. Ali Majilou, Iran , a tie against Lewan Tediaschwili u. one loss to John Peterson (wrestler) , USA;
• 1973, 1st place , Championship of the Armies of the Warsaw Pact States (SKDA) in Bucharest, F, Wed, in front of Alschanow, USSR a. Tömöriin Artag , Mongolia ;
• 1973, 1st place , intern. Tournament in Bucharest, F, Wed, in front of Adolf Seger , Federal Republic of Germany a. Mehmet Uzun , Turkey;
• 1973, 4th place , EM in Lausanne , F, Wed, with victories over Lothar Dunke, Federal Republic of Germany, André Bouchoule a. Georgios Pahtas, Greece , a tie against Hayri Polat, Turkey u. a loss to Vasily Syulschin , USSR;
• 1973, 1st place , "Coup Latine" in Madrid , F, Wed, before André Bouchoule a. Michael Margairat, Switzerland;
• 1973, 2nd place , World Cup in Tehran , F, Wed, with victories over Kurt Elmgren, Tömöriin Artag, Alois Peng, Switzerland, Ismail Abilow , Bulgaria and others. Yosuke Nagano , Japan a. a loss to Vasily Syulschin;
• 1973, 2nd place , Student World Cup in Moscow , F, Wed, behind Wassili Sjulschin u. before P. Saberski, Bulgaria, T. Rib, Canada , Heraldo Iglesias, Cuba a . Klaus Girke , GDR;
• 1974, 3rd place , EM in Madrid, F, Wed, with victories over Franciszek Kampik, Poland , Charles Kelly, Great Britain a . Mehmet Uzun, a tie against Benno Paulitz , GDR a. a loss to Viktor Novoshilov , USSR;
• 1974, 3rd place , World Cup in Istanbul , F, Wed, with victories over Franciszek Kampik, Benno Paulitz u. Masaru Motegi, Japan a. Defeats against Viktor Novoshilov a. Mehmet Uzun;
• 1975, 1st place , Grand Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany in Aschaffenburg , F, Wed, in front of Adolf Seger a. Hamid Alidouabi, Iran;
• 1975, 1st place , tournament in Galați , F, Wed, in front of Adolf Seger, Leszek Ciota, Poland, Heraldo Iglesias u. Ludovic Ambros, Romania;
• 1975, 2nd place , EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , F, Wed, with victories over Günter Spindler, GDR, Georgios Pahtss, Kurt Elmgren and others. Henryk Mazur , Poland a. a loss to Ismail Abilov;
• 1975, 1st place , "Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig , F, Wed, before Magomedchan Arazilow , USSR, Günter Spindler u. Klaus Girke;
• 1975, 3rd place , World Championships in Minsk , F, Wed, with victories over Henryk Mazur, George Hicks, USA, Istvan Kovacs u. Richard Deschatelets, Canada a. Defeats against Adolf Seger u. Ismail Abilov;
• 1976, 4th place , EM in Leningrad , F, Wed, with victories over Arnost Böhm, Czechoslovakia , Mehmet Uzun u. Benno Paulick u. a loss to Ismail Abilov;
• 1976, 2nd place , Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Freiburg , F, Wed, behind Benno Paulick u. before Adolf Seger, Günter Spindler a. Jimmy Martinetti;
• 1976, 9th place , OS in Montreal , F, Wed, with victories over Richard Deschatelets u. Imad Faddoul, Lebanon a . Defeats against Viktor Novoshilov a. Ismail Abilov

Romanian championships

Vasile Iorga was eight times Romanian free style champion between 1969 and 1977.

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• Trade magazines Athletics from 1969 to 1975 and Der Ringer from 1976,
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA , 1976, pages E-70, E-73, W-93, W-98, O-90, E-90, W-109, E-101, W-118, E-108 , W-132, E-112 and the like O-106,
• International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

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