Roman Dmitriyev

Roman Mikhailovich Dmitriev (Russian Роман Михайлович Дмитриев, scientific transliteration novel Michajlovič Dmitriev; born March 7, 1949 in Bestjach, Yakut ASSR (now the Republic of Sakha ), † February 11, 2010 in Moscow) was a Soviet wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1972 and world champion in free style in the paper weight (even light flyweight ).

Career

Roman Dmitriev, a Yakut, began as a teenager in 1961 with the rings. At 18, he joined the Army and was stationed in Moscow. There he became a member of the Central Sports Club of the Army CSKA Moscow. His coaches were Gorkin Dmitri and Sergei Preobrazhensky. Roman Dmitriev was only 1.53 meters tall and rank, to less exceptions, always in the lightest weight class, the paper weight ( up to 48 kg body weight), which was introduced by the International Wrestling Federation FILA 1969.

Already at the age of 20 he was employed at the World Championships in 1969 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in which first took place in a competition in the 48- kg class. He won there over Dale Kestel, USA, Jemran Bazarragcha, Mongolia, and Akihiko Umeda, Japan. But the decisive battle, he succumbed to the Iranians Ibrahim Javadi and thus became vice - world champion. The first victory at a major international championship succeeded Roman Dmitriev at the European Championships 1969, which took place this year after the World Cup in Sofia. On the way to the European title he defeated among others Ognjan Nikolov of Bulgaria, Sefer Baygın from Turkey and struggled against Jürgen Möbius draw from the GDR. After the European Championships 1969 Roman Dmitriev came at European Championships again until the year 1981 are used. This was due to the fact that it was in the paper weight in the former Soviet Union a number of outstanding wrestlers, which the Soviet Wrestling Federation would also open up opportunities start at international championships. These were, for example, Rafik Gadschiew, Arschok Sanojan, Sergei and Anatoly Kornilajew Beloglasow.

At the World Cup 1970 in Edmonton, he reached the 3rd place. He defeated it against Akihiko Umeda and again against Ibrahim Javadi. At the World Championships in 1971 in Sofia Roman Dmitriev scored three point victory over ion Arapu, Romania, Jürgen Möbius and Ognjan Nikolov. Since he was already so loaded with 3 wrong points, he retired after a brief point defeat against Akihiko Umeda and only came on the 5th Place.

At the 1972 Olympics in Munich Roman Dmitriev succeeded the great fortune, for he was Olympic champion. He certainly had the best of luck, because Ognjan Nikolov, Ebrahim Javadpour from Iran and he defeated each other. After the 6th round there were only three wrestlers in the competition, but had already wrestled against each other. For this reason, the number of incorrect points had to decide. Here Roman Dmitriev was best because with 5 failed points. Nikolov had 6 failure points and 7.5 Javadpour failure points. Roman Dmitriev had to have her have been lucky in the 4th round a bye and thus the advantage of not be charged with failure points to in this round. He won the gold medal as before Ognjan Nikolov and Ebrahim Javadpour.

But in 1973 he confirmed his Olympic victory, because he was in Tehran with six wins and world champion in the paper weight. In the decisive battles he defeated this Ochirdolgor Enkhtaivan from Mongolia and Hasan Isaev from Bulgaria.

In the following years he won though no title, but still reached excellent rankings. He won in 1974 in Istanbul, exceptionally, starting at flyweight, 3rd place a World Cup bronze medal. He had to, inter alia, here also the Japanese Yuji Takada defeated, should celebrate great successes in the following years. In 1975, Roman Dmitriev was missing through injury in the world and the European Championship. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal but he was at the start and won again in the paper weight the silver medal. In the battle for the medal he first defeated the Bulgarians Hasan Isaev. Then he met the Japanese Akiro Kudo. In this fight -sequence both wrestlers and both were promptly disqualified from the judges. This meant that they were both charged with four faulty points. Hasan Isaev was the beneficiary of this decision, because he was so ahead of Olympic champion Roman Dmitriev and Akiro Kudo.

After 1976 Roman Dmitriev not launched initially in international championships. He finished the World Cup in Toledo ( Ohio) in 1977 to 2nd place, 1979 1st place and 1980 2nd place, proving that he still belongs to the world elite. 1978 and 1979, he finished at the Soviet Championship in paper weight behind Sergei Kornilajew each 2nd place and won in 1979 with the Völkerspartakiade the Soviet Union before Arschok Sanojan.

At the end of his career, Roman Dmitriev finally won at the European Championships in Łódź in the paper weight behind Ali Machmedow from Bulgaria and Claudio Pollio from Italy and before Gerald Pfister, East Germany, and Poland Wladiyslaw Olejnik from a bronze medal.

After his playing days Roman Dmitriev worked as a wrestler trainer. As Yakut he supported the youth and athletes together with Pawel Pinigin, another former Yakut world-class wrestler, in the Russian republic of Sakha ( Yakutia fr. ). In particular, he saw to it that many in the " Russian diaspora " living Yakuts do not lose the connection to their homeland.

International success

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

Swell

• Journal athletics, Nos. 3 /1969 4/1969, 10/1969, 9/ 1970 9/1971, 07/08/1972, 10/ 1973 10/1974, 4/ 1975 4/1976, 10/ 1976 09/08/1976, 11/1977, 12 /1978, 19/1980 and 6 /81
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
• International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
• Website of the Republic Sakha

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Profile of Roman Dmitriev at the Institute for Applied Training Science

• Soviet citizens
• Ringer (Soviet Union)
• Olympic champion (wrestling )
• World Champion ( Wrestling )
• European Champion (wrestling )
• Olympian (Soviet Union)
• Born in 1949
• Died in 2010
• Man