Vladimir Yumin

Vladimir Sergeyevich Jumin (Russian: Владимир Сергеевич Юмин; born December 18, 1952 in Omsk ) is a former Soviet wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1976 and four -time world champion in free style bantamweight or featherweight.

Career

Vladimir Jumin, a blond Russian who began as a teenager in Omsk with the rings. After first major success, he was delegated to the Ringer center in Makhachkala in Dagestan and started there for Trud (Labour reserves) Makhachkala. His trainer was mainly K. Pirsaidow. The 1.61 m tall athlete launched exclusively in free style, first bantamweight and featherweight with advanced age.

The jump to the 1972 Olympic Games managed not yet Vladimir Jumin. But in 1973, he was first employed in an international championship, the World Cup in Tehran. He won four fights there and wrestled with Eduard Giray of the Federal Republic of Germany undecided. Counter Migdin Hoilogdorj from Mongolia and Mohsen Farahvashi from Iran, he suffered defeats that finished 3rd place.

Vladimir Jumin was also used at the World Cup in 1974 in Istanbul. He had developed enormously and was no longer there to beat. With seven victories, he became world champion in supreme style. Towards this title he defeated in the finals Hans -Dieter Brüchert from the GDR and László Klinga from Hungary.

1975 Vladimir Jumin was in Ludwigshafen am Rhein first time European champion bantamweight. For this purpose, it sufficed five victories. With Miho Dukow from Bulgaria, Gigel Anghel from Romania and Zbigniew Żedzicki but he defeated three very strong wrestler from the former Eastern bloc countries, the yes at that time determined the Ringer happening worldwide. At the World Championships this year in Minsk it was not enough to win the title with five wins, because he surprisingly defeated in his sixth fight against the Japanese Masao Arai on points, so that the world champion. Jumin was second.

For the most successful year in the career of Vladimir Jumin the year was 1976. Initially it was in Leningrad European champion bantamweight, which he again needed seven wins. In the decisive battles he won through against by Georgios Hatzioannidis from Greece and Hans -Dieter Brüchert. At the Olympic Games in Montreal, he won then the gold medal in the bantamweight, but this triumph was hanging by a thread. He won in Montreal, although against Li Ho Pyong, North Korea, Hans -Dieter Brüchert, Miho Dukow and in the rematch against Masao Arai, but lost in his second fight of the tournament the Mongol Migdin Hoilogdorj on points. Ultimately, he had to thank Arai and Brüchert that he was Olympic champion, because these defeated both Hoilogdorj, so this was eliminated before reaching the final round.

At the European Championships in 1977 in Bursa Vladimir Jumin launched for the first time a higher weight class, featherweight. He beat all of his opponents, including the two German Helmut stocking from Jena and Eduard Giray from Freiburg and was in a superior style of European champions. This victory he added at the World Championships in 1977 another one. In Lausanne he was with seven wins world champion again. He won there, inter alia, on Migdin Hoilogdorj, Miho Dukow, Mohsen Faravashi and fight for victory over James Humphrey from the United States. At Hoilogdorj and Faravashi he successfully took so revenge for previous defeats.

In the years 1978 and 1979 Vladimir Jumin just launched at the World Championships in Mexico City or in San Diego. In two world championships he won and added to his success account to two other world title. Where he had in San Diego in 1979 again in luck, because there he had to accept defeat by Miho Dukow, which then, however, lost to the Americans Andre Metzger, the turn had beaten Jumin. In the final settlement it reached in 1979 for 1st place.

In 1980, Vladimir Jumin competed in the Grand Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany in Freiburg im Breisgau and won the tournament at featherweight with five wins there. He won there again and Others against Eduard Giray.

After this tournament Vladimir Jumin but was employed in any other international championship more. Both at the European Championships this year in Prievidza as well as at the Olympic Games in Moscow in the first twenty-one years of Magomedgasan Abuschew was the experienced Vladimir Jumin preferred. Abuschew it was both Olympic champion and European champion. The reasons for this action are not known. There is also nothing about the further life of Vladimir Jumin known. For his contributions to the sport wrestler he was taken in September 2009 in the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = free style, Ba = bantamweight, featherweight = Fe, then to 57 kg or 62 kg body weight)

Championships of the USSR

Vladimir Jumin should have won several times the championship of the USSR. However, it is just a result of him known:

Swell

• Journal athletics numbers: 4/1974, 7/ 1975 8/1977, 8 /1978,
• Journal The wrestler, numbers: 06/07/1977, 11/1977, 9 /1978, 9/1979, 6/ 1980
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976 Pages: W -107, W -130, E -107, E -110, O- 104