Victor Dolipschi

Victor Dolipschi

Victor Dolipschi (born October 19, 1950 in Bucharest , † January 14, 2009 ) was a Romanian wrestler . He won a bronze medal in the Greco-Roman style in the super heavyweight division at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and 1984 in Los Angeles .

Career

Victor Dolipschi began wrestling as a teenager at the Rapid Bucharest sports club . His coach there was Marin Belusica . He concentrated entirely on the Greco-Roman style and was always a full-grown super heavyweight with the seniors at a height of 1.86 meters (weight class over 100 kg body weight), who weighed around 150 kg at his best. In 1969 he moved to the Dinamo Bucharest sports club , where he stayed until he retired in 1988.

At the age of 18 he was used at the Balkan Games in Constanța in the super heavyweight division, where he finished third behind Alexandar Tomow from Bulgaria , who would later become his permanent rival and feared opponent at the international championships, and the Yugoslav Miroslaw Grubanow.

In 1971 he fought in three international matches Romania against the Federal Republic of Germany three times against the German European champion from 1970 Roland Bock from Germany . He lost the first fight and fought a draw in the second fight against Bock. In the third fight, both wrestlers were disqualified for being passive. In 1972 he also took part in international matches in Romania in Germany, where he fought a draw against Horst Schwarz from Untertürkheim and won on points over Lorenz Hecher from Hallbergmoos .

In 1971 he took part in the World Championships in Sofia , where he defeated Giuseppe Marcucci from Italy . Against the multiple world champion Anatoli Roschtschin from the Soviet Union and against József Csatári from Hungary he managed a "draw", but against Alexandar Tomow he lost and came in 6th place.

He won his first medal at an international championship at the 1972 European Championships in Katowice . He won there over Omar Topuz from Turkey , Anatoli Kochnev from the USSR and Roland Bock , but lost again to Alexandar Tomow. He won an EM bronze medal with it . At the Olympic Games in Munich he won over Edward Wajda from Poland and József Csatári. Then he met the German national hero Wilfried Dietrich , who also wanted to win a medal at his fifth Olympic Games. Dolipschi managed to withstand Dietrich's attacks with his bulky ringing. Shortly before the end of the fight, both wrestlers had received two warnings for passivity. The jury then decided to give Dietrich the third warning, so Dolipschi had won the fight. Although Dietrich stayed in the competition, he no longer competed in his next fight against the Soviet wrestler Anatoly Roschtschin, angry about the judge's judgment, which he believed was unfair. Regarding the third warning from Dietrich, it must be said that many wrestling experts shared his opinion, but Dolipschi was not to blame, because he was naturally looking for his chance to win the fight. A jury with a different cast might have decided the other way round, because Dietrich was no less passive than Dolipschi. For Victor Dolipschi this victory brought victory in any case the Olympic bronze medal, because in his last two fights against Alexandar Tomow he reached a draw for the first time in his career, but lost against Anatoly Roschtschin.

In 1973 he was less successful at the international championships. At the European Championships in Helsinki he managed only one draw against Omar Topuz, while he lost against Istvan Semeredi from Yugoslavia and Alexandar Tomow and thus only reached 7th place. At the world championship of the same year in Tehran , he came only one victory over the Swiss Karl Bachmann. Against Marek Galiński from Poland and Alexandar Tomow he lost and reached the 5th place in the super heavyweight division.

Meanwhile in Romania , Victor Dolipschi was a tough competitor in Roman Codreanu . This displaced him in Romania to 2nd place in the super heavyweight division, so that Dolipschi was initially no longer used in any international championships. It wasn't until 1977 that he started again at the European Championships in Bursa . He won there over Vladimir Romanowski from Czechoslovakia and Ege Kenan from Turkey, but surprisingly lost to Klaus Zindel from the GDR and, less surprisingly, to Nikola Dinew from Bulgaria, but still won an EM bronze medal. At the World Championships in Gothenburg in 1977 he remained without a win and finished there only 8th place.

In the following years he took part in some international tournaments, but did not start at any international championships. Between 1976 and 1979 e.g. B. he started four times at the Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Aschaffenburg and always achieved excellent places there. In 1977 he even won this tournament ahead of the Soviet athlete Awtandil Maisuradze and the Pole Zygmunt Andrecki .

In the early 1980s, Victor Dolipschi began studying physical education at the Romanian sports university ANEFS in Bucharest, which he completed in 1984. From then on he was also a coach at Dinamo Bucharest . In 1984 he tried a comeback as a wrestler and qualified for participation in the European Championships in Jönköping . He won there over József Nagy from Hungary and Refik Memišević from Yugoslavia , but lost again to Alexandar Tomow, who like him made a comeback after a few years of break, and against Igor Rostorozki from the USSR, which brought him to 5th place. He then took part in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles because Romania was one of the few Eastern Bloc countries that did not participate in the boycott of the other socialist countries. He met the Swede Tomas Johansson in his first fight there and lost that fight. Then he defeated Antonio Lapenna from Italy a . El Haddad from Egypt and lost the battle for the bronze medal against Refik Memišević. After the games it was found that Tomas Johansson, who had actually won the silver medal, had been doped. For this reason he was disqualified. Memišević received the silver medal and Victor Dolipschi for the second time an Olympic bronze medal after 1972 .

In the following years he also worked as a coach of the Romanian national team of Greco-Roman wrestlers and was Secretary General of the Romanian Wrestling Association from 1996 to 1998.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1968	3.	Balkan Games in Constanța	Heavy	behind Alexandar Tomow , Bulgaria a . Miroslaw Grubanow, Yugoslavia
1969	3.	Intern. Tournament in Bucharest	Super heavy	behind Pavel u. Popovici, both Romania
1970	3.	Intern. Tournament in Split	Super heavy	behind Horst Schwarz , BRD u. Istvan Semeredi , Yugoslavia
1971	3.	Klippan tournament	Super heavy	behind Alexandar Tomow u. Horst Schwarz
1971	6th	EM in Sofia	Super heavy	with a victory over Giuseppe Marcucci, Italy , draw against Anatoli Roschtschin , Soviet Union a . József Csatári , Hungary a . a loss to Alexandar Tomov, Bulgaria
1972	2.	"Nikola Petrov" tournament in Sofia	Super heavy	behind Alexandar Tomow u. Petr Kment , Czechoslovakia
1972	3.	Intern. Romanian Championships in Bucharest	Super heavy	behind Anatoli Roschtschin u. Anatoly Selenko, both USSR
1972	3.	EM in Katowice	Super heavy	with victories over Omar Topuz , Turkey , Anatoli Kotschnew , USSR a. Roland Bock , FRG a. a loss to Alexandar Tomov
1972	bronze	OS in Munich	Super heavy	with victories over Edward Wajda , Poland , József Csatári u. Wilfried Dietrich , FRG, a draw against Alexandar Tomow u. a loss to Anatoly Roschtschin
1973	1.	"Pytlasinksi" tournament in Warsaw	Super heavy	before Roman Codreanu , Romania a. Vasily Merkulov , USSR
1973	7th	EM in Helsinki	Super heavy	with a draw against Omar Topuz u. Defeats against Istvan Semeredi u. Alexandar Tomov
1973	5.	World Cup in Tehran	Super heavy	with a victory over Karl Bachmann, Switzerland a . Defeats to Marek Galiński , Poland a. Alexandar Tomov
1973	3.	Universities World Cup in Moscow	Super heavy	behind Schota Morschiladze , USSR a. P. Stanchev, Bulgaria
1975	2.	Intern. Tournament in Galați	Super heavy	behind Roman Codreanu, in front of Schota Morschiladze a. Richard Wolff , FRG
1975	3.	"Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig	Super heavy	behind Alexandar Tomow u. Roman Codreanu
1976	3.	Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Aschaffenburg	Super heavy	behind Nikola Dinew , Bulgaria a. Richard Wolff, before Zygmunt Andrecki , Poland a. Evgeni Artyuchin , USSR
1977	1.	Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg	Super heavy	before Avtandil Maisuradze , USSR a. Zygmunt Andrecki
1977	3.	EM in Bursa	Super heavy	with victories over Wladimir Romansowski, Czechoslovakia a. Ege Kenan, Turkey a. Defeats against Klaus Zindel, GDR a. Nikola Dinew
1977	8th.	World Cup in Gothenburg	Super heavy	Winner: Nikola Dinew in front of Oleksandr Kolchynskyj , USSR a. Arne Robertsson , Sweden
1978	2.	Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg	Super heavy	behind Awtandil Maissuradse, in front of Rangel Gerowski , Bulgaria a. Prvoslav Ilic , Yugoslavia
1978	2.	"Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Moscow	Super heavy	behind Alexander Kolchinsky, in front of Cherkossov, both USSR
1979	5.	Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg	Super heavy	behind Alexander Koltschinski, Rangel Gerowski , Marek Galiński u. Roman Codreanu
1981	1.	Universities World Cup in Bucharest	Super heavy	before Refik Memišević u. Ivan Karapetyan, USSR
1984	5.	EM in Jönköping	Super heavy	with victories over József Nagy , Hungary a. Refik Memišević, Yugoslavia a. Defeats against Alexandar Tomow u. Igor Rostorozki , USSR
1984	bronze	OS in Los Angeles	Super heavy	with victories over Antonio Lapenna, Italy a . El Haddad, Egypt and defeats to Tomas Johansson , Sweden a . Refik Memišević

Note: all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, heavyweight, up to 1968 over 97 kg body weight, super heavyweight, from 1969 over 100 kg body weight, there was a weight limit even above Years not yet

Romanian championships

Victor Dolipschi has won the Romanian super heavyweight championship seven times, always in the Greco-Roman style.

swell

• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
• Trade magazines Athletik and Der Ringer
• Website of the "Federația Română de Lupte"

Web links

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