Valentin Nikolayev (wrestler)

Valentin Vladimirovich Nikolayev, Russian Валентин Владимирович Николаев, scientific transliteration Valentin Vladimirovič Nikolaev ( born April 6, 1924 in Donino - Kamensk, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, † November 1, 2004 in Rostov -on-Don, Russia) was a Soviet wrestler. He was Olympic champion and world champion.

Career

Valentin Nikolayev, a Russian from the region of Rostov-on- Don, began as a teenager with the rings. He was railroad employee and a member of the "locomotive " Rostov. He wrestled exclusively in the Greco- Roman style, and was already in the late 1940s to the best Soviet light heavyweight or heavyweight wrestlers.

In 1951 he was at the World Festival of Youth in East Berlin winner of Ringer Tournament at heavyweight. In 1953 he succeeded in winning the Soviet Championship light heavyweight, before Pyotr Tkachev from the Azerbaijan SSR. At the World Festival of Youth 1953 in Bucharest Nikolayev repeated his victory of 1951, but this time at light heavyweight.

1955 world champion in the light heavyweight with six clear point victories Valentin Nikolayev in Karlsruhe. In the final he defeated while the Olympic champion from 1948 Karl -Erik Nilsson from Sweden. The year 1956 was the high point in the career of Nikolayev, because he was with four wins in Melbourne Olympic champion in the light heavyweight division. The main reason was his victory over Karl -Erik Nilsson and Petko Sirakow from Bulgaria.

In the following years Nikolayev had increasing weight problems and could no longer take the limit of 87 kg for the light heavyweight division. He mingled with the Soviet championships in the heavyweight division with still strong and still achieved many good results. He was second best behind the 1957 heavyweight Olympic champion from 1956 Anatoli Parfenov. Also in 1959, he was Vice- Soviet heavyweight champion behind the new star Ivan Bogdan. In the II Völkerspartakiade 1959, the result in the heavyweight Ivan Bogdan was before Valentin Nikolayev and Anatoli Parfenov.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Hs = half heavyweight, S = Heavy weight, then to 87 kg or 87 kg of body weight)

Swell

  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
  • Various editions of the journal " athletics " 1950-1960
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