Nikolay Solovyov

Nikolai Nikolayevich Solovyov (Russian Николай Николаевич Соловьёв; born July 27, 1931 in Rodniki, † November 15, 2007 in Saint Petersburg ) was a former Soviet wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1956 in Melbourne in the Greco-Roman flyweight.

Career

Nikolai Solovyov's career was short, but successful. The Leningrad was a member of the Navy and stationed in the Baltics. Mid-1950s, he had reached the top of the Soviet flyweight in Greco- Roman style. In the international competition scene he attacked in 1955 in an international match of the Soviet Union against Sweden. He defeated while the Swedish champions Karl -Erik Andersson on points.

In 1956 he was nominated Soviet champion at flyweight and for the Olympic Games in Melbourne, without having been previously denied an international championship or other major international tournament. But he justified the confidence placed by the Soviet Wrestling Federation in him, for he was Olympic champion. The decision on the Olympic victory was very dramatic, because the three top wrestler Nikolai Solovyov, the reigning world champion Ignazio Fabra of Italy and Dursun Ali Egribas from Turkey defeated each other, so that the points of failure ratio had to choose from the preliminaries and here Nikolai was the best. He was therefore before Ignazio Fabra and Dursun Ali Egribas Olympic champion.

In the course of his career, Nikolai was used in no more international championships, bearing in mind that the competition in the Soviet Union was enormous. However, an outstanding result by Nikolai is still well known: In 1959 he was winner of the II Spartakiade the USSR flyweight of Nail Garayev and Armais Sajadow.

International success

Countries fighting

Swell

• Athletics, journal, various editions from 1954 to 1959.
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976.