Aleksandar Tomov

Alexandar Tomow, Bulgarian Александър Томов, ( born April 3, 1949 in Sklawe, Oblast Blagoevgrad ) is a former Bulgarian wrestler.

Career

Alexandar Tomow began as a teenager in his home town with the rings. He was physically exceptionally strong as a teenager and soon grew up to be a full-fledged heavyweight. In his last year as a teenager he was Spartakiadesieger and already he was employed by the Bulgarian Wrestling Federation at the Balkan Championships, where he immediately Heavyweight, Greco-Roman age of 19. Style, won. He joined the Bulgarian army and was stationed in Sofia. There, P. Sirakow was his coach, who systematically took him to the top. Alexandar Tomow was now 1.92 m tall and about 130 kg. In the following years he won five times the title of world champion and five times that of a European Champion. At the Olympic Games in 1972, 1976 and 1980 but he had to settle for a silver medal each time. The Soviet athlete Anatoly Rosh Chin and Alexander Leonidovich Koltschinski built him three times the grip on the gold medal. 1981 ended Alexandar Tomow his international career, but ventured in 1984, with 35 years of a comeback and became European champion again. But on his fourth Olympic Games in 1984 in Los Angeles, he was unable to attend because politicians denied him this way through the Olympic boycott. Despite the fact that he could never be Olympic champion, Alexandar Tomow was certainly one of the best Superschwergewichtler in the Greek -Roman style that ever stood on the mat. For his contributions to the sport wrestler he was accepted as one of the first in the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame in September 2003.

He was an officer in the Bulgarian People's Army, during his playing days but only wrestler.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, GR = Greek and Roman. Styles, SS = Super Heavyweight, 1969, over 97 kg body weight, from 1970 to 100 kg body weight)