Bobby Weaver

Robert Weaver ( born December 29, 1958) is a former American professional wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1984 in free style in the paper weight.

Career

Bobby Weaver grew up in Blairstown, New Jersey, and attended the Blair Academy, a private high school in Blairstown Township. He also came with the rings. He then visited the Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Here he developed into an outstanding freestyle wrestler several times " EIWA " Champion Paper weight was. EIWA is an association of universities on the east coast of the United States. At the NCAA Championships ( U.S. students Championship) in 1982, he reached the 2nd place in the paper weight. Robert Weaver was a very lightweight wrestler who in his career, almost exclusively in the paper weight that had a weight limit of 48 kg, was launched.

He was more successful at the U.S. Championships ( AAU Championships ), because here he won the league title in 1978, which he followed several more. His debut on the international wrestling mat he gave at the Junior World Championship 1977 in Las Vegas. He was there in the paper weight runners-up behind the Soviet athletes Kasabiew. In 1979 he was at the World Championships in San Diego vice-champion in the seniors. He had to suffer one defeat after four victorious verlaufenen fighting in the final battle against the defending champion Sergei Kornilajew from the Soviet Union.

In 1980, he was unable to attend the Olympic Games in Moscow because the United States boycotted the games. In the autumn of that year he won the World Cup in Toledo ( Ohio), the competition in the paper weight and thereby defeated the Olympic champion from 1972 novel Dimitrijew from the USSR.

At the World Cup 1981 in Toledo ( Ohio), he had to again in the paper weight Sergei Kornilajew beaten. To the next use in an international championship came Bobby Weaver then not again until 1983 at the World Championships in Kiev. He missed there, but the final and finished in 5th place.

In 1984 he was a member of the U.S. team at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles. There he took advantage of the situation and was in the paper weight Olympic champion. To this end, it submitted three victorious battles against Reiner Pitchfork, FRG, Gao Wenhe, China and Takashi Irie, Japan.

After this Olympic victory, he ended his career Ringer. He was then 15 years, Ringer coach at Easton High School in Easton, Pennsylvania. Now he participates in Easton in charitable programs of various organizations such as " United Way ", " Big Brother / Big Sister " and " Easton PAL".

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, World Cup WM = F = free style, Pa = paper weight, Fl = Flyweight, then to 48 kg or 52 kg body weight)

U.S. Championships ( AAU-Ch. )

Swell

  • Journal The wrestler, numbers 9/1977, 7/ 1979 9/1979, 10/1083 and 9 /1984
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
  • Website of Lehigh University,
  • Website " www.sports123.com "
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