Ion Țăranu

Ion Ţăranu ( born March 14, 1938 in Turnu Măgurele ) is a former Romanian wrestler. He won the bronze medal in Greco-Roman at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. Style at middleweight.

Career

Ion Ţăranu began as a teenager with rings and developed into an outstanding wrestler in the Greco-Roman. Style. By 1959 he was Romanian middleweight champion for the first time. In 1960 he qualified for participation in the Olympic Games in Rome. He had previously collected only in two countries fighting against Sweden in Bucharest International experience. He wrestled it twice draw against Hans Antonsson.

In Rome, he surprised the wrestlers professional world when he showed excellent performance in the middleweight division, where among other things, the Turkish world champion Kazim Ayvaz defeated. Against the young Lothar Metz from Rostock, who represented the all-German team, he wrestled a draw. A defeat had to put ion Ţăranu by the experienced Dimitar Dobrew from Bulgaria. In the final bill, it was enough for him to 3rd place and so on winning the bronze medal.

Very good cut Ion Ţăranu appears also in the World Cup 1961 in Yokohama. He wrestled there again against Lothar Metz undecided, but was defeated by the Soviet athlete Vasily Zenin and landed on the thankless fourth place. No medals won Ion Ţăranu also at the World Championships in 1962 in Toledo / USA and in 1963 in Helsingborg. But he cut there both times from respectable and failed in two world championships Anatoly Kolesov from the USSR.

Well prepared drove Ion Ţăranu to the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. He wrestled there in the welterweight and remained unbeaten in his four fights. However, the draw against Matti Laakso from Finland and Anatoly Kolesov could reach him after two point victories six faults, with whom he had to leave the competition. He finished as the 5th Place.

Achieved a major success Ion Ţăranu then at the European Championships 1967 in Minsk. He was promoted vice - European champion in the welterweight division. The former regulations allowed him this with just one win and three draws. At the World Championships this year in Bucharest he scored three wins and a draw. A defeat against Viktor Igumenow from the USSR forced him to retire but what he ended up in 6th place.

In 1968, Ion Ţăranu took in Mexico City for the third time in the Olympic Games in part. He reached there like four years ago, the 5th Place. He defeated among others, thereby Peter Nettekoven from Dortmund and struggled against Francis Berger draw from Austria. Losses he had of Viktor Igumenow and accept the Frenchman Daniel Robin.

After the Olympics Ion Ţăranu ended his wrestler 's career. He studied at the Sport University ANEFS in Bucharest and received his PhD in 1971. Subsequently he was there himself later worked as a lecturer and as a professor. In addition, he also coached the national teams of wrestlers Progresul Bucharest and Dinamo Bucharest.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greek and Roman. Styles, We = welterweight until 1961-73 kg from 1962-78 kg body weight, Mi = middleweight until 1961-79 kg from 1962-87 kg body weight)

Swell

• Journal Athletics from 1960 to 1968
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1968, pages O -61, W.42, W -47, W -55, O- 75, E -50, W-72, E -53, W -75, E-60, O -94,
• International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
• Information from Eduard Hemar, Zagreb