Valentin Krumov

Valentin Krumow Slatew , Bulgarian Валентин Крумов Златев , (born January 13, 1964 ) is a former Bulgarian wrestler . He won a total of five medals in the Greco-Roman style in flyweight at world and European championships.

Career

Valentin Krumow was a member of the army and started as such for the Levski-Spartak Sofia sports club . He only wrestled in the Greco-Roman style and always started with a height of 1.64 meters in the flyweight class, the weight class that had its weight limit of 52 kg in its time.

He made his debut on the international wrestling mat at the Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in 1983 in Kristiansund , Norway . He finished there in the flyweight behind Sergei Sabeijworota from the USSR a . Jukka Loikas from Finland took an excellent 3rd place.

In the senior class he had very tough competition in Bulgaria, one of the best wrestling nations in the world. But he still managed to get starting positions in the international championships from 1985. In 1985 he took part in the European Championships in Leipzig , where he won an EM bronze medal in the flyweight category, right behind Roman Kierpacz from Poland and Minsait Tasetdinow from the USSR .

In 1986 he was used at the World Championships in Budapest . There he defeated u. a. German silver medalist in 1984 in the paper weight Markus Scherer (: techn 1 points. 14), but failed in the final with a fourth place behind high for points Sergei Djudjajew , USSR champion Jon Rønningen , Norway and the Olympic champion from 1984 Atsuji Miyahara from Japan just about the medal ranks. In 1987 Valentin Krumow became Bulgarian champion. He did not get any medals at the 1987 European Championships in Tampere and at the 1987 World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand , but he still did well there with fourth and fifth places. The fight for the European Championship bronze medal in 1987 in Tampere he lost against Roman Kierpacz just 4: 6 techn. Points.

In 1988, 1989 and 1990 he was only used at the European Championships in Kolbotn , Oulu and Posen . The reason for this was that he was injured before the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and therefore could not start there and that from 1989 Bratan Zenow switched from paper weight to flyweight and pushed him to second place in flyweight in Bulgaria . Valentin Krumow won the European Championship bronze medal at each of these championships . In the fight for this medal, he defeated Mihai Cişmaş from Romania , Tibor Jankovics from Czechoslovakia and Csaba Vadász from Hungary .

After a somewhat longer break, Valentin Krumow took part in a European championship again in 1993 in Istanbul , where he came in 5th place in the flyweight division.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	comment
1983	3.	Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Kristiansund / Norway	To fly	behind Sergei Sabejworota , USSR and Jukka Loikas , Finland , in front of Jan Kohout, Czechoslovakia
1985	1.	Tournament in Reims	To fly	before Serge Robert , France and Lee Jae-song, South Korea
1985	3.	EM in Leipzig	To fly	behind Roman Kierpacz , Poland and Minsait Tasetdinow , USSR , in front of Tibor Jankovics , Czechoslovakia and Mihai Cişmaş , Romania
1986	4th	World Cup in Budapest	To fly	behind Sergei Djudjajew , USSR, Jon Rønningen , Norway and Atsuji Miyahara , Japan , in front of Tibor Jankovics and Roman Kierpacz
1987	1.	Grand Prix tournament in Budapest	To fly	before Csaba Vadász , Hungary, Serge Robert and Roman Kierpacz
1987	4th	EM in Tampere	To fly	behind Andrij Kalaschnykow , USSR, Csaba Vadász and Roman Kierpacz, in front of Tibor Jankovics and Serge Robert
1987	5.	World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand	To fly	behind Pedro Roque Favier , Cuba , Roman Kierpacz, Alexander Ignatenko , USSR and Serge Robert
1987	2.	FILA Grand Prix Gala in Budapest	To fly	behind Roman Kierpacz, in front of Pedro Roque Favier, Serge Robert and Csaba Vadász
1988	3.	EM in Kolbotn	To fly	behind Alexander Ignatenko and Jon Rønningen, in front of Mihai Cișmaș and Peter Stjernberg, Sweden
1989	3.	EM in Oulu	To fly	behind Senad Rizvanović , Yugoslavia and Ismo Kamesaki , Finland, ahead of Tibor Jankovics and Andrij Kalaschnykow
1990	3.	EM in Poznan	To fly	behind Jon Rønningen and Oleg Kutscherenko , USSR, in front of Csaba Vadász and Ismo Kamesaki
1993	5.	EM in Istanbul	To fly	behind Natig Aiwasow , Azerbaijan , Andrij Kalaschnykow, Ukraine , Samwel Danilijan , Russia and Lars Rønningen , Norway

Note: all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, flyweight, back then up to 52 kg body weight

literature

• Trade journal Der Ringer

Web links

• Profile of Valentin Krumow at the Institute for Applied Training Science