Vladimir Albertovich Popov

Wladimir Albertowitsch Popow ( Russian Владимир Альбертович Попов ; born January 8, 1962 in Barnaul ) is a former Soviet wrestler , world champion 1987 and European champion 1987 and 1989 in the Greco-Roman style light heavyweight.

Career

Vladimir Popov began as a teenager in 1977 with the rings . After initial successes and joining the Soviet Army, in which he became an officer, he was delegated to the Army Sports Club (SKA) Omsk . Vladimir focused on the Greco-Roman. Style. From 1982 he was one of the best Soviet wrestlers in the light heavyweight division. For his first use at an international championship he came only in 1987, when his compatriot Igor Kanygin, who had dominated the light heavyweight wrestling scene in the world until then, had resigned.

At the European Championships in 1987 in Tampere , Wladimir had a very successful debut, because he immediately became European Champion . And also at the World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand in the autumn of 1987 , he dominated his competitors, above all Atanas Komtschew from Bulgaria , Harri Koskela from Finland and Sándor Major from Hungary , and became world champion .

At the European Championships in 1988 not he, but Pavel Potapov was used. But Vladimir Popov was again at the Olympic Games in Seoul that year . There he was no longer in the super form of 1987, lost to Atanas Komchev and had to be content with the bronze medal .

In the spring of 1989, Wladimir was European light heavyweight champion for the second time in Oulu . In the final he defeated Maik Bullmann from Frankfurt (Oder) , who was facing a great career. This was his last start in an international championship. In the Soviet Union , Vladimir in Pavel Potapov , Sergei Demiaschkewitsch and Vyacheslav Oleinik had rivals that he could no longer defeat and who were therefore preferred to him at the following international championships.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greek-Roman style, Hs = light heavyweight, then up to 90 kg body weight)

• 1985, 1st place , tournament in Västerås , GR, Hs, in front of Toni Hannula , Finland , Lajos Herczeg, Hungary a . Karl-Johan Gustavsson, Sweden ;

• 1986, 1st place , World Cup in Oak Lawns / USA , GR, Hs, before Lajos Szegervari, Hungary, Guillermo Cruz, Cuba a . Michael Carolan, USA;

• 1987, 1st place , EM in Tampere , GR, Hs, ahead of Atanas Komtschew , Bulgaria , Harri Koskela , Finland, Olaf Koschnitzke , GDR , Jean-Francois Court, France a . Ilie Matei , Romania ;

• 1987, 1st place , WM in Clermont-Ferrand , GR, Hs, ahead of Sándor Major , Hungary, Atanas Komtschew, Harri Koskela, Ilie Matei u. Yasutoshi Moriyama, Japan ;

• 1987, 1st place , FILA Grand Prix Gala in Budapest , GR, Hs, in front of Atanas Komtschew, Guillermo Cruz, Harri Koskela u. Sandor Major;

• 1988, bronze medal , OS in Seoul , GR, Hs, behind Atanas Komtschew u. Harri Koskela et al. before Christer Gulldén , Sweden, Andreas Steinbach , BRD a . Franz Pitschmann , Austria ;

• 1988, 3rd place , FILA Grand Prix Fala in Budapest, GR, Hs, behind Peter Farkas u. Sandor Major, bde.Hungary a. before Atanas Comchev;

• 1989, 1st place , EM in Oulu , GR, Hs, ahead of Maik Bullmann , GDR , Andreas Steinbach, Peter Farkas, Radoslaw Turkot, Poland a. Harri Koskela

swell

• 1) Div. Issues of the trade journal "Der Ringer" from 1985 to 1989,
• 2) Ringer database of the University of Leipzig

Web links

• Profile of Wladimir Albertowitsch Popow at the Institute for Applied Training Science