Dumitru Pârvulescu
Dumitru Pârvulescu ( born June 14, 1933, Bucharest; † 9 April 2007) is a former Romanian wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1960 in the Greco-Roman flyweight.
Career
Dumitru Pârvulescu grew up in Lugoj and began as a teenager with the rings. He quickly developed into a class wrestler in Greco-Roman wrestling and was then delegates to the big-club Steaua Bucharest. Dumitru learned the trade of a turner, but was, as usual at that time with top athletes in the socialist states, state employees.
In 1951 he occupied at the World Festival of Youth in East Berlin as a 18 -year-old freshman at flyweight an excellent 2nd place and made for the first time on the international wrestling mat attention. In 1952 he has also been used at the Olympic Games in Helsinki but had to pay more dearly, because he only won a fight and had to defeats against Maurice Mewis from Belgium and Ignazio Fabra from Italy to make do with a 9th place.
Just one year later missed Pârvulescu at the World Championships in Naples with the 4th place in the flyweight barely a medal. He won it three fights and retired after a defeat against Ahmet Bilek from Turkey after the 4th round. Also missed at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne Pârvulescu the bronze medal just barely. But against Ignazio Fabra and Nikolai Solovyov from the Soviet Union, he had no chance.
Between 1956 and 1960 World Championships in Greco -Roman style only found in 1958 in Budapest. Dumitru Pârvulescu was there again and took a good 5th place. At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 he finally achieved his great success. He was charged with four wins and a draw against the Soviet wrestler Ivan Kochergin Olympic champion. Among the wrestlers defeated by him while there were such great skill as Ignazio Fabra and Borivoje Vukov from Yugoslavia.
At the World Cup 1961 in Yokohama Pârvulescu defeated one after the other four world-class wrestler, but lost spanked by the Americans and Wilson against Soviet wrestler Armais Sajadow and was runner-up. After two weak years 1962 and 1963 Pârvulescu triumphed at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo and won again at the end of his career once again a bronze medal. He thereby also managed a victory over Rolf Lacour from Köllerbach, against whom he had lost at the World Cup 1962.
Pârvulescu stepped on back from active wrestler sport. That he was even after long years still remembered in Romania, shows the fact that he was presented with a high Romanian Medal in 2004 by the Romanian President Iliescu.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Fl = Flyweight, then to 53 kg body weight)
Swell
- Various editions of the journal " Athletics " from the years 1951 to 1964
- Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976