Viktor Michailowitsch Igumenow

Viktor Michailowitsch Igumenow ( Russian Виктор Михайлович Игуменов; born March 10, 1943 in Omsk ) is a former Soviet wrestler . He was five times world champion in Greco-Roman. Welterweight style.

Career

Viktor Igumenow began wrestling as a teenager, specializing fully in the Greco-Roman style. In 1961 he became Soviet youth champion in the class up to 70 kg body weight. After further successes in the Soviet Union , he was delegated to the top club Spartak Moscow , where he found excellent coach and training conditions.

Nevertheless, it was not until 1965 that he got his first international appearance, because in the former Soviet Union the competition for good wrestlers was extremely high. Above all, the multiple world and Olympic champion Anatoly Kolessow dominated the welterweight division, the weight class in which Viktor Igumenow also wrestled.

In 1965, Viktor Igumenow represented the colors of the Soviet Union in two country battles against the Federal Republic of Germany . In Dortmund he fought against Peter Nettekoven , and in Ludwigshafen am Rhein he won on points over Otto Alt from Schifferstadt .

At his first start at a world championship, 1966 in Toledo / USA , he immediately won his first title. There he defeated all five opponents who opposed him. In 1967 he defended this title at the World Cup in Bucharest with three wins and one draw against Jan Kårström from Sweden .

As a high favorite, Viktor Igumenov went to the Olympic Games in Mexico City . He defeated there first Metodi Zarew from Bulgaria and Ion Ţăranu from Romania on points. For each of these point wins, he received a missing point. When he was unexpectedly shouldered by the Norwegian Harald Barlie in the third round , he had six missing points and had to retire, which put him in 10th place, which was indisputable for him.

In 1969, 1970 and 1971 he won the world welterweight championship three times in a row in Mar del Plata , Edmonton and Sofia . He did not suffer defeat at these world championships. Only the Greek Petros Galaktopoulos managed to tie twice with him. He also landed victories over the Germans Werner Schröter and Klaus Pohl .

In 1972 Viktor Igumenow wanted to catch up on victory at the Olympic Games in Munich . But he had bad luck again, because after his third fight he had to give up due to an injury and remained unplaced.

After the Olympic Games in 1972 Viktor Igumenow ended his career as an active wrestler. He completed training as a trainer and then worked as a trainer. In 1966 and 1974, respectively, he received the "Honored Master of Sports" and "Honored Trainer of Sports" awards, which were common in the Soviet Union at that time. In September 2013 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 = Greek-Roman style, We = welterweight, up to 1968 up to 78 kg body weight, from 1969 up to 74 kg body weight, Wed = middle weight, up to 82 kg body weight)

• 1965, 1st place , "Iwan-Poddubny" tournament in Moscow , GR, We, ahead of Jan Roots a . Georgi Verkhinin, bde. USSR ;

• 1965, 1st place , "Dan Kolew" tournament in Haskovo , GR, We, ahead of Jan Kårström , Sweden a . Radew, Bulgaria;

• 1966, 1st place , World Cup in Toledo / USA , GR, We, with victories over Mohamed Fayaz, Iran , Harald Barlie , Norway , Florea Ciorcilă , Romania , Milan Nenadić , Yugoslavia and others. Bolesław Dubicki , Poland ;

• 1967, 1st place , "Iwan-Poddubny" tournament in Moscow, GR, We, ahead of Gerogi Verkhinin a. Wladyslaw Iwlew , bde. USSR u. Matti Laakso , Finland ;

• 1967, 1st place , World Cup in Bucharest , GR, We, with victories over Bjarne Ansbøl , Denmark , Rudy Williams, USA a. Ion Ţăranu , Romania a. a draw with Jan Kårström , Sweden ;

• 1967, 1st place , pre-Olympic tournament in Mexico City , GR, We, ahead of Rudolf Vesper , GDR a . Stevan Horvat , Yugoslavia;

• 1968, 10th place , OS in Mexico City, GR, We, with victories over Metodi Zarew, Bulgaria and Ion Ţăranu u. a loss to Harald Barlie, Norway;

• 1969, 1st place , World Championship in Mar del Plata , GR, We, with victories over Larry Lyden, USA, Eero Tapio , Finland a. Matti Poikkala , Sweden;

• 1970, 1st place , tournament in Klippan / Sweden, GR, Wed, in front of Peter Nettekoven , BRD a . Jan Karström;

• 1970, 1st place , EM in Berlin (East), GR, We, with victories over Marcel Vlad, Romania, Toimi Schoberg, Sweden, Klaus Pohl , GDR, Pentti Salo, Finland a. Petros Galaktopoulos , Greece ;

• 1970, 1st place , World Championship in Edmonton , GR, We, with victories over Antal Steer , Hungary , Werner Schröter , FRG, Richard Mihal, USA a. Boris Butrakow , Bulgaria a. a tie against Petros Galaktopoulos;

• 1971, 2nd place , tournament in Klippan / Sweden, GR, Wed, behind Jan Karström u. before Toimi Schoberg u. Reinhold Hucker , FRG;

• 1971, 2nd place , People's Spartakiade of the USSR, GR, We, behind Imant Klintson , Latvia a . in front of Kasim Halilow , Georgia ;

• 1971, 1st place , World Championship in Sofia , GR, We, with victories over Boris Butrakow, Ion Enache , Romania, Franz Berger , Austria , Klaus-Jürgen Pohl, Momir Kecman , Yugoslavia and others. Stanisław Krzesiński , Poland a. a tie against Petros Galaktopoulos;

• 1972, unpl. , OS in Munich , GR, We, after defeating Franz Berger u. a draw with Petros Galaktopoulos retired due to injury

swell

• Athletics magazine from 1961 to 1972,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976,
• International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Outstanding Class of 2013 to Enter FILA Hall of Fame , accessed on April 16, 2017 (English)

Web links

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