Émile Poilvé

Émile Poilvé ( born September 19, 1903 in Mégrit, Côtes- d'Armor, † 1963) was a French wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1936 in free style at middleweight.

Career

Émile Poilvé came from northern France, where he began as a teenager with the rings. At the international wrestling mat, he first appeared in 1930, when he won at the European Championships in free style in Brussels at middleweight 3rd place and thus equal to winning a medal. In the final he defeated while the Swiss Hermann Gehri.

In 1932 he was seconded to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Outdoor style him doing succeeded middleweight victory over the Canadians Donald Stockton. But then he met the top wrestler Tunyogi Jozsef from Hungary and Ivar Johansson from Sweden, against which he was subject. In the final account, he got away with it on the 5th Place. He started in Los Angeles in the Greco- Roman style. He was defeated in his first battle against the eventual Olympic champion Väinö Kokkinen from Finland and had to retire hurt after that.

In the following years he fought in France with Jean Jourlin for supremacy in the middleweight division in free style. In the years 1933 to 1935, relied by Jean Jourlin. Émile Poilvé was only back in 1935 at the European Championships in Brussels at the start. But He had to start at light heavyweight, because Jourlin ranking in the middleweight division. In the light heavyweight Emile Poilve did not get along, because he lost at this European Championship his struggles against neo August from Estonia, Edvard Virag of Hungary and Hubert Prokop from Czechoslovakia and therefore only came on the 8th Place.

In 1936, Émile Poilvé was reinstated at the Olympic Games in Berlin in the middleweight division, while Jean Jourlin started welterweight there. Emile Poilve was in Berlin in excellent shape and defeated one after Perry Evans from Canada, Kyosti Luukko from Finland, Leslie Jeffers from the UK, Jaroslav Sysel from Czechoslovakia, Ernst Krebs from Switzerland and Richard Voliva from the United States, winning in convincing fashion the gold medal.

1937 moved Émile Poilvé to professional wrestlers ( Catch as catch can ). He started it in European and North American wrestling. He was still standing in 1960 on the mat.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, European Championship EM =, F = free style, GR = Greco-Roman style, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, then to 79 kg or 97 kg body weight)

Swell

• Journal athletics, numbers 32/33/1932, 31/32/1936,
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976, pp. E-20, E 30/31