Daniel Robin
Daniel Robin ( born May 31, 1943 in Bron ) is a French former wrestler.
Career
Daniel Robin grew up in Grenoble. He started there at age 14 with the rings. For many successes in the field of youth in the province of Dauphiné / Savoy he made at the age of 18 years, the leap into the French national team in wrestling. At age 19, he won at the French Championships in Colmar in Greco-Roman wrestling in lightweight third place. A year later he became the first French champion at lightweight, this time in free style. By the end of his career, which was very successful, rag Daniel Robin always in two styles. He was after he at the World Championships in Helsingborg a promising success with a fifth place in the lightweight, Greco-Roman style, scored on his first international assignment in 1963, stopped this after three wins by Klaus rust from Witten, he had to be in the next few years satisfied at the World and European Championships with weaker results. Until 1966, he wrestled always at lightweight. 1967 moved to the higher weight class welterweight and needed in this weight class no longer work off so much. Prompt to great successes in. He was world champion in 1967 in New Delhi in a Greco -Roman style, European champion in 1968 in Skopje in free style and won in 1968 at the Olympic Games in Mexico City in two styles, a silver medal. In free style he lost it in the final the Turks Mahmut Atalay and in Greco- Roman style Rudolf Vespers from Rostock. In subsequent years, he was able only at the Mediterranean Games in 1971 in Izmir to carry a victory. But with World and European Championships and at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, he won many good rankings among the top six wrestlers in weight class. Against German wrestler he fought with varying results. He lost to Klaus rust from Witten, Werner Schröter from Schiffer city and Rudolf Vespers from Rostock, won over Reinhard Zeiher from Brötzingen, Bernd Müller from Halle, Fred Hempel from Luckenwalde and Klaus Pohl from Halle ( Saale). His greatest victories were undoubtedly beyond the Soviet Weltkalsseringer Yuri Schakmuradow and Guliko Sagaradse. The individual results of all international championships, which he denied, are " international success " read in the section.
After the 1972 Olympics, Daniel Robin ended his career as a wrestler. He worked in France as a journalist and was in 1968 the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games in his hometown of Grenoble on. He then went to Canada for many years and worked as a television and radio Rudfunkreporter at Montreal, where he worked in the sports sector. In 1996 he returned to France. He was then in leading positions in the International Wrestling Federation FILA active and is Vice- President of the French Association Ringer.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = freestyle, Le = Light weight until 70 kg body weight, We = welterweight, to 74 and 78 kg body weight, Mi = Middleweight, to 82 kg body weight)
French Championships
Daniel Robin won a total of fourteen times the French championship five times in the Greco-Roman and nine times in the free style in weight classes Light, Welter and Middleweight