Vasily Syulschin

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Vasily Petrovich Sjulschin ( Russian Василий Петрович Сюльжин ; born May 9, 1946 in Sergejewitschi, Minskaja Woblasz ) is a former Soviet wrestler . He was world champion in 1973 and European champion in freestyle middleweight in 1972 and 1973 .

Career

Vasily Syulschin, a Belarusian, belonged to the sports organization "Dynamo" and was based in Minsk . He was a member of the Soviet security forces. In the first half of the 1970s he was one of the best Soviet middleweight freestyle wrestlers and thus one of the best wrestlers in this style in the world.

In 1972 he was used for the first time at an international championship, the European Championship in Katowice . He was able to convince there straight away and won the European middleweight title in a superior manner. Among the wrestlers he defeated was Wolfgang Nitschke from the GDR , who after 1990 was a successful national coach of the German freestyle wrestlers for many years. Vasily Sjulschin was not used at the Olympic Games in Munich that year . Levan Tediaschwili , who won the gold medal, started here for the Soviet Union .

1973 was the most successful year in the wrestling career of Vasily Sjulschin. He first won the European title again at the European Championships in Lausanne . It took him six wins and one draw. Also Benno Paulitz , the strong middleweights from the GDR, it had to acknowledge the superiority of Vasily Sjulschin. In the same year he was in Tehran and world champion in the middleweight division. Here he defeated u. a. Ismail Abilow from Bulgaria , Günter Spindler from the GDR, the silver medalist from Munich and later Olympic champion from 1976 John Peterson from the USA and Vasile Iorga from Romania .

1974 Vasily Sjulschin was not at the start in any international championships. In 1975 he was there again. But he no longer had the form from 1973 and was eliminated at the European championship of that year in Ludwigshafen am Rhein after defeats against Mehmet Uzun from Turkey a . Henryk Mazur from Poland left after the 2nd round and only finished 11th. It was surprising that he was still used in the World Cup. Possibly this had something to do with the fact that it was held in his hometown of Minsk and that the Soviets naturally expected it to be a success. Vasily Sjulschin could not fulfill these hopes, because he was eliminated in Minsk after defeats against Mehmet Uzun and Adolf Seger from Germany after the 2nd round and again only finished 11th.

After these two failures, the international wrestling career of Vasily Sjulschin was over. This may also be related to the fact that the Soviet Union had other world class wrestlers available in the weight class of Vasily Sjulschin in Levan Tediaschwili , Magomedchan Arazilow , Anatoli Prokoptschuk and Viktor Novoshilov .

successes

(WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, Wed = middleweight, then up to 82 kg body weight, Hs = light heavyweight, then up to 90 kg body weight)

  • 1973, 1st place , "Dynamo" -Spartakiade in Berlin (East), F, Hs, in front of Deltschew, Bulgaria a. Kielbowski, Poland;
  • 1974, 1st place , Student World Cup in Moscow, F, Wed, in front of Vasile Iorga u. D. Saberski, Bulgaria;
  • 1975, 11th place , WM in Minsk , F, Wed, after defeats against Mehmet Uzun and Adolf Seger , FRG

swell

  • Athletics magazine from 1972 to 1975,
  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of FILA , 1976, pages W-109, W-133, E-82, E-90 and others. E-108

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personal data
SURNAME Sjulschin, Vasily
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Сюльжин, Василий Петрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Sergejewitschi, Minskaja Woblasz