Victor Dolipschi
Victor Dolipschi (born 19 October 1950 Bucharest; † 14 January 2009) was a Romanian wrestler. He won one bronze medal in Greco-Roman super heavyweight at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 and 1984 in Los Angeles.
Career
Victor Dolipschi began as a teenager at the sports club Rapid Bucharest with the rings. His coach was there Beluşica Marin. He concentrated entirely on the Greco-Roman style, it was with the seniors at a size of 1.86 meters always an adult Superschwergewichtler ( weight over 100 kg body weight), weighed in its heyday about 150 kg. In 1969 he moved to the sports club Dinamo Bucharest, where he remained until his retirement in late 1988.
Already at the age of 18 he was employed at the Balkan Games in Constanta super heavyweight and finished there behind Alexandar Tomow from Bulgaria, who was to become his eternal rival and nemesis in international championships later and the Yugoslavs Miroslaw Grubanow the 3rd place.
In 1971 he fought in three countries fighting against the Federal Republic of Germany Romania three times against the German champions from 1970 Roland Bock from Germany. He lost it the first fight and struggled in the second fight against Bock undecided. In the third match, both wrestlers were disqualified for passivity. In 1972, he was also fighting for country of Romania in the Federal Republic of Germany there and fought there against Horst Schwarz from Untertürkheim draw and won over Lorenz Hecher from Hallbergmoos on points.
In 1971 he was at the World Championships in Sofia at the start and came there to a victory over Giuseppe Marcucci from Italy. Against the multiple world champion Anatoly Rosh Chin from the Soviet Union and József Csatári from Hungary he scored " draw," but against Alexandar Tomow he lost and got away with it on the 6th Place.
His first medal at an international championship he won at the 1972 European Championship in Katowice. He won there over Omar Topuz from Turkey, Anatoly Kotschniew from the USSR and Roland Bock, but lost again against Alexandar Tomow. He thus won a European Championship bronze medal. At the Olympic Games in Munich him victories go about Edward Wajda from Poland and József Csatári. Then he met the German national hero Wilfried Dietrich, who wanted to win a medal also in his fifth Olympics. But Dolipschi succeeded in keeping with its bulky ring fashion the attacks of Dietrich stand. Shortly before the end of the fight both wrestlers had received two warnings for passivity. The judges then decided to give Dietrich the third warning, which Dolipschi had won the fight. Although Dietrich remained in the competition, went to his next fight against the Soviet wrestler Anatoly Rosh Chin upset about his opinion, unjust judges judgment not more. The third caution of Dietrich is to say that many wrestlers experts shared his opinion, but Dolipschi it was not to blame, because this of course looking for his chance to win the fight. A court martial in a different formation, might have just decided the other way around, because Dietrich was not as passive as Dolipschi. For Victor Dolipschi this victory earned any case, winning the Olympic bronze medal, because in his last two fights against Alexandar Tomow he reached for the first time in his career, although a draw, but lost to Anatoli Rosh Chin.
In 1973, he was then less successful in the international championships. At the European Championships in Helsinki, he managed only a draw against Omar Topuz as he lost against Istvan Semeredi from Yugoslavia and Alexandar Tomow, reaching only the 7th Place. At the World Championships the same year in Tehran, he came only to a victory over the Swiss Karl Bachmann. Against Marek Galiński from Poland and Alexandar Tomow he lost and reached the 5th place in the super heavyweight division.
In the meantime, a tough competitor had grown Victor Dolipschi in Romania in Roman Codreanu. This supplanted him in Romania on the second place in the Super Heavyweight, so that Dolipschi first came into use at no more international championships. It was not until 1977 he was at the European Championships in Bursa at the start again. He won there over Vladimir Romanovsky from Czechoslovakia and Kenan Ege from Turkey, but he got spanked by Klaus Zindel from the GDR and less surprising to Nikola Dinew from Bulgaria, but still went on to win a European Championship bronze medal. At the World Championships 1977 in Gothenburg, he remained winless and finished there, only the 8th Place.
In the following years he took part in several international tournaments, but competed at international championships no more. Between 1976 and 1979, for example, He started four times at the Grand Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany in Aschaffenburg and finished there always excellent places. In 1977 he won the tournament even before the Soviet athletes Awtandil Maisuradse and Poland Zygmunt Andrecki.
Victor Dolipschi had started at the beginning of the 1980s on the Romanian Sport University ANEFS in Bucharest with a sports teacher studies, which he completed in 1984. From this time he was also coach of Dinamo Bucharest. In 1984, he attempted a comeback as a wrestler and also qualified for participation in the European Championship in Jonkoping. He won there over József Nagy from Hungary and Refik Memišević from Yugoslavia, but lost again against Alexandar Tomow, of how he undertook a comeback after a few years break and against Igor Rostorozki from the USSR, which he came 5th place. He then took part in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, because Romania did not participate as one of the few Eastern bloc countries to boycott the other socialist countries. There he met in his first fight on the Sweden Tomas Johansson and lost that fight. Then he defeated Antonio Lapenna from Italy and El Haddad from Egypt and lost the battle for the bronze medal against Refik Memišević. After the Games, it was found that Tomas Johansson, who had actually won the silver medal, was doped. For this reason he was disqualified. Memišević received a silver medal and Victor Dolipschi after 1972 for the second time an Olympic bronze medal.
In the following years he also served as coach of the Romanian national Greco- Roman wrestler and was from 1996 to 1998 Secretary General of the Romanian Association Ringer.
International success
Note: all contests in Greco -Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Heavyweight, and 1968 over 97 kg body weight, super heavyweight, as of 1969 over 100 kg body weight, a weight restriction, there were still up in those years not yet
Romanian Championships
Victor Dolipschi won a total of seven times the Romanian championship in the Super Heavyweight, always in Greco- Roman style.