Miho Dukov

Micho Ivanov Dukow (also written Dukov Miho Ivanov, Bulgarian Михо Иванов Дуков; born October 29, 1955 in Schiwatschewo, Oblast Sliven ) is a former Bulgarian wrestler. He won a silver medal in free style at featherweight at the 1980 Olympic Games. To this end, he was three times European Champion in free style in the spring and lightweight.

Career

Micho Dukow began as a teenager in 1963 with the rings. Even in the junior age he showed very good performances and was then, after entry into the Bulgarian army, delegate at the Sports Club of the Army CSKA Sofia. His coach was there Jantscho Patrikow, a formerly very successful Bulgarian freestyle wrestler. Micho Dukow also focused entirely on the free style. With a size of 1.68 meters, he began his international career first bantamweight, but then grew over the featherweight up in the lightweight inside.

He celebrated his first major international success at the Junior European Championships 1974 in Haparanda. He was there in the bantamweight champion before Gigel Anghel from Romania and the Soviet athletes Gurgen Bagdasarian. Also in 1955 he was very successful at the Junior, because he was in Haskovo even junior world champion bantamweight before Gurgen Bagdasarian and Gigel Anghel.

In 1975 he was also already used in the elderly. This same he succeeded at the European Championships in Ludwigshafen am Rhein bantamweight with the silver medal a medal win. He defeated the experienced here Klinga László from Hungary and Zbigniew Żedzicki from Poland. Beaten he had to give only the outstanding Soviet freestyle wrestler Vladimir Jumin. Also at the World Championships in Minsk, he won a medal. He finished third and was awarded the bronze medal. Defeated, he was doing after three wins of Wladimir Jumin and the Japanese surprise world champion Masao Arai.

Also defeated at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal Micho Dukow bantamweight against Jumin and Arai. On the basis of these defeats, he handed to him in Montreal, despite his victories over Gordon Smith from Australia, Gigel Anghel, Ramezan Kheder from Iran and Zbigniew Żedzicki only thankless fourth place.

At the European Championships in 1977 in Bursa Micho Dukow launched for the first time at featherweight. But his main rival Wladimir Jumin was moved up to this weight class and defeated him again in the final battle. This Micho Dukow was vice-European champion again. On the way to this success he suggested, inter alia, the two German participants Helmut stocking from Jena and Eduard Giray from Freiburg. At the World Championships in 1977 in Lausanne, he then defeated among others but the former world champion Mohsen Faravashi from Iran was defeated again against Wladimir Jumin and the American James Humphrey and got away with it to 3rd place.

In 1978 Micho Dukow in Sofia in the absence of Wladimir Jumin finally winning the European Champion title at featherweight. He defeated among others, thereby the top wrestler Saipula Absaidow from the USSR, Zoltan Szalontai from Hungary and Vehbi Akdağ from Turkey. At the World Championships this year in Mexico City, he disappointed and somewhat defeated alongside Vladimir Jumin surprisingly also the Iranians Mohamed Rezaeh, reaching only the 6th Place.

His second European title won Micho Dukow 1979 in Bucharest. He won among others, there Erhard Pocher from the GDR Jan Szymanski from Poland and fight for victory Eduard Giray from Germany, who finished 2nd place behind him. At the World Cup 1979 in San Diego Micho Dukow then seemed to be, as he had defeated his eternal rival Wladimir Jumin on points on the way to his first world title. He then lost to surprise the Americans Andre Metzger, who in turn lost to Jumin. After the fighting ended Jumin stood there with the fewest false points and was once again despite his loss to Dukow world champion. Dukow became Vice World Champion and Andre Metzger came to 3rd place.

1980 Micho Dukow concentrated entirely on the Olympic Games in Moscow. Get him there for five victories over tough opponents throughout. In the final battle he was not Vladimir Jumin, but the 21 -year-old representative Magomedgasan Abuschew opposite. Although Abuschew hardly possessed international experience, he defeated Micho Dukow on points and referred it to the 2nd place.

Micho Dukow continued his career in 1981 and appeared there for the first time at lightweight. At the European Championship in Lodz, he was convinced by in this new weight class, beating, among others Eberhard Probst from the GDR, Kiro Ristow from Yugoslavia and Mikhail Tscharatschura from the USSR, which meant winning his third European Championship title.

Surprisingly, however, does not he then continued his career continued but. He was no longer there already in the World Cup 1981. Instead, he began training as a physical education teacher and then worked as a wrestler coach at CSKA Sofia. After 1990, several years worked as a trainer in Switzerland. In 2002 and 2003 he was head coach of the Bulgarian national team freestyle wrestler.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = free style, Ba = bantamweight, featherweight = Fe, Le = Lightweight, then until 57 kg, 62 kg and 68 kg body weight)

Swell

• Journal athletics numbers: 6/1974, 7/ 1975
• Journal The wrestler, numbers: 06/07/1977, 11/ 1977 5/1978, 9 /1978, 5/1979, 9/ 1979 8/1980 and 5/1981,
• Docementation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976 Pages: W -130, O- 104, E -107