Yordan Bikov

Jordan Bikow ( Bulgarian Йордан Биков; born October 17, 1950 in Pazardzhik ) is a former Bulgarian weightlifter. He was Olympic champion in 1972 in the middleweight division.

Career

Jordan Bikow began in the late 1960s as a teenager with weight lifting. After taking over the head coach post at the Bulgarian weightlifters by Ivan Abadschiew at this time intensive talent search and talent promotion campaign was launched in Bulgaria. Jordan Bikow belonged to the so- discovered and promoted young talents weightlifter. Its economic base he found by the entry age of eighteen in the Bulgarian People's Army, with the attendant membership in the Central Sports Club of the Army.

On the international stage, he appeared for the first time lifter in 1969. He finished it at the Danube Cup tournament in Bucharest in lightweight 390 kg ( 120-120-150 ) in the Olympic triathlon 3rd place. In the same year he has also been used in the World and European Championships in Warsaw and arrived there at lightweight on the 12th and 9th place. Be output amounted to 382.5 kg ( 115-122,5-145 ).

In 1970 he competed at the European Championships in Szombathely and arrived there in the middleweight division at 430 kg ( 137,5-127,5-165 ) behind Victor Kurenzow, USSR, 465 kg, György Szarvas, Hungary, 452.5 kg and Smirnov, USSR, 445 kg on an excellent 4th place. Almost as good he cut off at the World Championships the same year in Columbus (Ohio ), for there he rose in the Olympic triathlon at 440 kg ( 140-130-170 ) and finished in 5th place. The winner was also there Wiktor Kurenzow with 462.5 kg.

Ironically, at the European Championships in 1971 in Sofia had Jordan Bikow then the first setback in his career suffered because he fabricated in the Press three failed attempts, remaining in the overall standings unplaced. Well rested, he showed up at the World Cup 1971 in Lima, for there he could improve his personal best in the Olympic triathlon at 452.5 kg ( 140-132,5-180 ), thus returning the 5th Place. In thrusting he was even world champion at 180 kg.

In 1972 Jordan Bikow increased further. After he had increased his personal best to 462.5 kg ( 150-135-177,5 ) at the pre- Olympic tournament in Ulm and thus second behind the Russians Galkin, 465 kg was, he won the European Championship 1972 in Constanta with 477.5 kg ( 155-137,5-185 ) the first title. He became European Champion in front of former world champion Victor Kurenzow, 472.5 kg and Anselmo Silvino from Italy, 460 kg. At the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, he then continued his career on the crown, because he was the new world record of 485 kg ( 160-140-185 ) in Powerlifting Olympic champion. He benefited somewhat from the fact that the reigning world champion and favorite Viktor Kanygin from the USSR in the snatch has experienced three failed attempts, and thus fell out of the rankings.

Since Jordan Bikow was not even quite 22 years old when his Olympic victory, you went in the weightlifting scene from the fact that he would dictate what happens in the middleweight division for a long time. But it turned out differently. He started in 1973 still at the European Championships in Madrid, but there was not quite in the shape of the Year 1972. He scored in a duel, which was introduced in 1973 in place of the Olympic Three struggle, 322.5 kg ( 142.5 to 180 ) and had thus settle behind his young compatriot Nedeltscho Kolev, 330 kg ( 145-185 ) with the 2nd place.

His last competition on the international stage was weightlifters to participate in the SKDA Championship ( Championship of the armies of the Warsaw Pact countries ) in Trenčín. He scored there 305 kg in the duel and had the Russians Galkin, give 310 kg, beaten. The reason for his sudden career end to differences with the head coach Ivan Abadschiew have been, who reproached him after the Olympic victory is no longer enough to train hard. However, after some time came to a reconciliation between Bikow and Abadschiew, which meant that Jordan Bikow could visit the Sports Academy in Sofia and was attended by the same weightlifting coach.

International success

WM EM individual medals

  • World Championship gold medals: 1971/Stoßen/Mittel - 1972/Stoßen/Mittel
  • World Cup bronze medals: 1970/Stoßen/Mittel - 1972/Drücken/Mittel
  • European gold medals: 1972/Stoßen/Mittel
  • EM- Silver medals: 1971/Drücken/Mittel - 1973/Stoßen/Mittel
  • EM bronze medals: 1970/Stoßen/Mittel - 1972/Reißen/Mittel

World Records

Notes

  • To 1972 all competitions in the Olympic triathlon, consisting of press, snatch and jerk
  • From 1973 all competitions in a duel, consisting of tearing and piercing
  • OS = Olympic Games
  • WM = World Cup
  • EM = Championship
  • Lightweight, then to 67.5 kg of body weight
  • Middleweight, then up to 75 kg body weight
  • The results of the 1972 Olympic Games were the same as the results of the World Cup 1972
Olympic weightlifting Columbus (Ohio) Leif Jenssen Werner Dittrich BRD (Germany) Mohamed Tarabulsi Peter Wenzel (weightlifter) France Carlo Galimberti Rudolf Ismayr Frank Spellman Pete George Yordan Mitkov Karl-Heinz Radschinsky Pablo Lara Zhan Xugang
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