Vladimir Nikolaevich Bakulin

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Vladimir Nikolajewitsch Bakulin ( Russian Владимир Николаевич Бакулин ; born September 3, 1939 in Klyuchi ; † December 10, 2012 ) was a Soviet wrestler , world champion in 1967 and winner of the silver medal at the 1968 Olympic Games .

Career

Vladimir Bakulin, a Russian, grew up in Kazakhstan where she started as a teenager with the rings . He concentrated on the Greco-Roman style. After rapid progress, he was delegated to a wrestling center in Alma-Ata (today Almaty ) and trained there to become a world-class wrestler. In the Soviet Union he had to overcome tough competition before he could qualify for international championships. The range of top wrestlers in the individual weight classes was unusually high in the Soviet Union at that time. Its main competitors, against whom it was necessary to prevail, were u. a. Sergej Rybalko , Ivan Kotschergin , Vladlen Trostjanski , Armais Sajadow and Vitaly Konstantinow , all Olympic , world and European champions in the years shortly before and shortly after 1970, i.e. in the years that were also the best of Vladimir Bakulin.

In 1966, Vladimir Bakulin qualified for the European flyweight championship in Essen . He convinced there and won the European Championship with five wins and a draw against Boško Marinko from Yugoslavia . A year later, in 1967, he was used at the World Cup in Bucharest . Vladimir Bakulin also convinced there and became world champion, this time also winning over Boško Marinko.

In 1968, Vladimir Bakulin was the favorite for the Olympic Games in Mexico City . He knew how to convince there too and fought his way to the final with four wins. There he met Petar Kirov from Bulgaria, against whom he was quite clearly defeated with 2: 9 points and therefore had to be content with the silver medal . As it turned out in the following years, the defeat against Kirov, whom he had already defeated in the run-up to the games, was not a shame, because this wrestler developed into one of the most successful flyweights in the world in Greco-Roman over the next few years. Style that was ever on the mat.

In 1970 Wladimir Bakulin started in Edmonton for the last time at a world championship. But he was no longer in the form of the previous years and had to be satisfied with 7th place after a defeat against the Japanese Saburo Sugiyama . After that he was no longer used in any international championships.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Fl = flyweight, Ba = bantam weight, back then up to 52 kg or 57 kg body weight)

  • 1967, 2nd place , pre-Olympic tournament in Mexico City , GR, Fl, behind Boško Marinko u. before Petar Kirow u. Imre Alker;
  • 1968, silver medal , OS in Mexico City, GR, Fl, with victories over Richard Tamble, USA , Metin Cikmaz, Turkey , Ahmed Chahrour, Iran a . Imre Alker et al. a loss to Petar Kirov;
  • 1972, 2nd place , "Nikola-Petrow" tournament in Varna , GR, Fl, behind Petar Kirow u. in front of Jozsef Doenczecz , Hungary

swell

  • Professional magazine Athletik from the years 1965 to 1972, numbers: 7/1965, page 16, 11/1966, page 4, 6/1967, page 17, 9/1967, page 10, 12/1967, page 32, 11/1968, Page 25, 8/1970, pages 3/4 and 2/1972, page 7
  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of FILA , 1976, pages E-47, W-73, W-86 u. O-82

Web links

Profile of Vladimir Bakulin at the Institute for Applied Training Science

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death report (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Bakulin, Vladimir Nikolayevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Бакулин, Владимир Николаевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Klyuchi
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 2012