Vladimir Bakulin

Vladimir Nikolayevich Bakulin (Russian: Владимир Николаевич Бакулин; born September 3, 1939 in Kljutschi; † 10 December 2012) was a Soviet wrestler, world champion in 1967 and winner of the silver medal at the Olympic Games in 1968.

Career

Bakulin Vladimir, a Russian, grew up in Kazakhstan where he started as a teenager with the rings. He concentrated on the Greco- Roman style. After rapid advances he was a wrestler center in Alma -Ata (now Almaty) delegated and trained there as a world-class wrestler. In the Soviet Union he had first to overcome a tough competition before he was able to qualify for international championships. The width of top wrestlers in each weight class at that time was unusually high in the Soviet Union. Its main competitors against which it was to prevail were, inter alia, Sergei Rybalko, Ivan Kochergin, Vladlen Trostjanski, Armais Sajadow and Vitali Konstantinov, everything Olympic, world and European champions in the years shortly before and after 1970, ie in the years, who were also the best of Vladimir Bakulin.

1966 succeeded Vladimir Bakulin qualifying for the European Championship in Essen flyweight. He convinced there and won with five wins and a draw verlaufenen fight against Bosko Marinko from Yugoslavia to the European title. A year later, 1967, he was employed at the World Championships in Bucharest. Also there convinced Vladimir Bakulin and became world champion, with him this time also a victory over Bosko Marinko succeeded.

In 1968, Vladimir Bakulin drove my favorites for the Olympic Games in Mexico City. He also knew there quite convincing and struggled with four wins to the final. There he met Petar Kirov from Bulgaria, against whom he quite clearly defeated with 2:9 points and therefore had to be content with the silver medal. As it turned out in subsequent years, was the defeat against Kirov, he had already defeated in the run-up to the Games, no shame, because this wrestler developed in the years to become one of the most successful flyweight in the world in Greco-Roman. Style that ever stood on the mat.

, 1970, Vladimir Bakulin in Edmonton for the last time at a World Cup. But he was no longer in the form of previous years and had to after a defeat against the Japanese Saburo Sugiyama settle for 7th place. After that, he was employed at no more international championships.

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)

Swell

• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976, pp. E -47, W -73, W -86 and O -82