Patrice Mourier
Patrice Mourier ( born April 10, 1962) is a French former wrestler and world champion 1987 and European champion in 1990 in Greco-Roman. Style bantamweight.
Career
Patrice Mourier began as a teenager in Lyon, where he became a member of the local clubs Ringer ( LC), with the rings. Under the coach Vidal, he learned very quickly and developed into an excellent wrestler in the Greco-Roman. Style, the style that he wrestled exclusively. Even as a junior, he won the World Championship " Juniors " (up to the age of 18 years ) in 1980 in Colorado Springs a bronze medal in the flyweight.
Thereafter, however, it took several years until he had to himself fought also with the seniors in the top. Although he achieved some regional international championships and tournaments and high rankings came at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles bantamweight to 9th place, but the real breakthrough came in 1987, when he at the European Championships in Tampere Bantamweight the 3 occupied. place and it was such a good wrestler like András Sike from Hungary, Sergey Bulanov from the USSR and Haralambos Holidis from Greece behind. For a bang Patrice Mourier then made at the World Championships the same year in Clermont -Ferrand. He was there in superior style in front of the German master Rifat Yildiz and European champions Keijo Pehkonen from Finland World Champion.
In 1988, he came at the European Championships in Kolbotn / Norway bantamweight on the 5th Place. He started as the reigning world champion then at the Olympic Games in Seoul. There, however, he dropped out after two defeats and could not be placed in the top ten wrestlers. Its exact position is unknown.
After a somewhat weaker 1989 Patrice Mourier 1990 was again very successful. First, he was in the spring of this year in Poznan European champion bantamweight before Andras Sike, Rifat Yildiz and Soviet athlete Sergei Sabiejworota and then he won in the fall of 1990 at the World Championships in Rome the bronze medal. 1991 was followed by a 7th place finish at the European Championships in Aschaffenburg and a good 4th place at the World Championships in Varna.
At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona Patrice Mourier tried again to win an Olympic medal. But he dropped out early and only came on the 10th Place.
Then he ended his international career Ringer. He completed a coaching education and was for many years manager of the French national team in Greco-Roman wrestler. Style. Now he works as a high official in the French Wrestling Federation.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, GR = Greek and Roman. Styles, Fl = Flyweight, Ba = bantamweight, then 52 kg and 57 kg body weight)