Valery Grigoryevich Resanzew

Valeri Grigorjewitsch Resanzew ( Russian Валерий Григорьевич Резанцев , scientific transliteration Valerij Grigor'evič Rezancev ; born November 25, 1942 in Stalinogorsk , Tula Oblast ) is a former Soviet wrestler .

Career

Valery Resanzew came to wrestle as a teenager in Moscow . After he had entered the police service and as a junior in the Soviet top class in the wrestling of the Greco-Roman. Having advanced style, he was delegated to the Dynamo Moscow sports club , where Vadim Psarev became his coach. The 1.79 m tall athlete always competed in the light heavyweight division (at that time up to 90 kg body weight) and always in the Greco-Roman style. In 1972 and 1976 he was Olympic champion . In all ten international championships in which he participated, he won without a single defeat. It must have been frustrating for his opponents never to get past Valery Resanzew. The Bulgarian Stojan Nikolow and the Pole Czesław Kwieciński , who were his toughest opponents, had to acknowledge the superiority of Resanzev. His ring style was unspectacular but extremely efficient. He also wrestled several times at the Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Aschaffenburg.

After the end of his career as an active wrestler, the police officer was seen for years as one of the best referees on the wrestling mats in the world. In 2004 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Hs = light heavyweight)

• 1970, 1st place , EM in Berlin , GR, Hs, with victories over Gürbüz Lü, Turkey , Barends Kops, Netherlands , Nils-Inge Nilsson, Sweden and a draw against Lothar Metz , GDR ;
• 1970, 1st place , World Cup in Edmonton , GR, Hs, with victories over Nicolae Neguț , Romania , Venko Tsintsarow, Bulgaria , Chimid Lundaa, Mongolia , Suleyman Akbayi, Turkey, Czesław Kwieciński , Poland and a draw against Josip Čorak , Yugoslavia ;
• 1971, 1st place , World Championships in Sofia , GR, Hs, with victories over Wayne Baugham, USA , Meroud, Iran , Czesław Kwieciński, Metz, Jozsef Perczi, Hungary and Stojan Nikolow, Bulgaria;
• 1972, gold medal , OS in Munich , GR, Hs, with victories over Hakon Överby, Norway , Günter Kowalewski , FRG , Kimuchi Tani, Japan, Jean-Marie Chardonnes, Switzerland , Corak and Czesław Kwieciński;
• 1973, 1st place , tournament in Klippan / Sweden , GR, Hs, before Dieter Heuer , GDR a. Arvidsson, Sweden;
• 1973, 1st place , EM in Helsinki , GR, Hs, with victories over Darko Nišavić , Yugoslavia, Dieter Heuer , GDR, Nicolae Neguț, Romania, Perczi, Roland Andersson, Sweden, Caj Malmberg, Finland and Nikolow;
• 1973, 1st place , World Championships in Tehran , GR, Hs, with victories over Willie Williams, USA, Nikolow, Dieter Heuer and Czesław Kwieciński;
• 1974, 1st place , EM in Madrid , GR, Hs, with victories over Ibrahim Kumas, Turkey, Fred Theobald , FRG, Vasile Fodorpataki, Romania, Heuer, Czesław Kwieciński and Nikolow;
• 1974, 1st place , World Championships in Katowice , Gr, Hs, with victories over Piro Kokolari, Albania , Heuer, Isao Yamaguchi, Japan, Dumitru Monea, Romania, Czesław Kwieciński and Nikolow;
• 1975, 1st place , World Championships in Minsk , GR, Hs, with victories over Theobald, Petre Dicu, Romania, Darko Nišavić, Czesław Kwieciński, Dieter Heuer and Nikolow;
• 1976, 1st place , Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Aschaffenburg , GR, Hs, ahead of Fred Theobald, Czesław Kwieciński u. Petre Dicu;
• 1976, gold medal , OS in Montreal , GR, Hs, with victories over Sadao Sato, Japan, Michel Grangier, France , Petre Dicu, Nikolow and Czesław Kwieciński

swell

• 1) Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA, 1976
• 2) International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig
• 3) various issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1970 to 1976

Web links

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