Yordan Mitkov
Jordan Mitkow (also Yordan Mitkov written, Bulgarian Йордан Митков; born April 3, 1956 in Asenovgrad, Bulgaria ) is a former Bulgarian weightlifter. In 1976 he became Olympic champion in the middleweight division
Career
Jordan Mitkow was at the beginning of the 1970s, discovered in an intensive Talentsichtungs and promotion program of the Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation, which had been initiated by the ligand itself since 1969 located in the Official new head coach Ivan Abadschiew. He comes from Asenovgrad and started for the local sports club Asenowets.
At the beginning of 1973, Jordan was staying Mitkow with a Bulgarian youth team to a Länderkampf gegendie Junior Poland in Warsaw and reached there as a featherweight in the duel 202.5 kg ( 85 to 117.5 ), where he faced the poles Jarczynski, the 217.5 kg reached, defeated. Just a few months later, he scored in a junior tournament in Pyongyang / North Korea in the Light Weight 270 kg ( 122.5 to 147.5 ) and finished in behind singer from the GDR, 272.5 kg, the 2nd place. A result of Jordan Mitkow is known from 1974. He finished it in Koszalin in a junior middleweight tournament with 267.5 kg 2nd place.
In 1975, he rose in the Danube Cup tournament for Juniors in Dimitrovgrad in the middleweight division at 302.5 kg ( 132.5 to 170 ) and thus won ahead of Austrian Rummel, 265 kg. He was able to steadily increase over the next few months and finished at the Junior World Championship 1975 in Marseille in the middleweight division at 320 kg ( 142.5 to 177.5 ) behind Jurik Wardanjan from the USSR, 325 kg 2nd place. Since the Olympic champion from 1972 middleweight Jordan Bikow no longer available, Jordan Mitkow 1975 already used by the Bulgarian weightlifting federation with 19 years at the World and European Championships this year in Moscow. He reached there in Middleweight 332.5 kg ( 150 to 182.5 ) and has been using this power behind Peter Wenzel from the GDR, 335 kg, and his compatriot Nedeltscho Kolev, who reached 325 kg, both runners-up as well as Vice - European champions.
In the Bulgarian Championship 1976 in Sofia Jordan Mitkow set a new world record in a duel with 345 kg ( 155-190 ) in the middleweight division. But at the European Championships 1976 in Berlin (East) he came at middleweight only 330 kg ( 147.5 to 182.5 ) and finished in behind Militosjan Vartan, who scored 340 kg and Peter Wenzel, who came to 335 kg to 3. Place. For a big surprise he saw at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. Miltosjan, Wenzel and he also made there the medals among themselves. But while Miltosjan and Wenzel their services from the European Championship in 1976 did not reach to Jordan Mitkow increased in a duel to 335 kg ( 145-190 ), winning quite surprisingly the gold medal in the middleweight division before Vartan Militosjan, 330 kg and Peter Wenzel, 327, 5 kg.
At the beginning of 1977, Jordan Mitkow injured and came in the following months only slowly back into shape. For this reason, he finished at the Junior World Championship 1977 in Sofia with Middleweight 300 kg ( 135-165 ) only the 4th Place. The winner was there, the Cubans Zayas 330 kg. In the World and European Championships 1977 in Stuttgart, he was back in better shape, the progress made by him 327.5 kg ( 147.5 to 180 ) ranged in the middleweight division but only for 5th place. World and European champion in Stuttgart Vartan Militosjan with 342.5 kg before Peter Wenzel with 337.5 kg in the total.
Due to a re- injury Jordan Mitkow fell out for the entire year of competition in 1978 and was only able to go in the spring of 1979 at the Fifth National Spartakiade ( zgl. Bulgarian Cup) in Sofia back to the start. He reached there with 342.5 kg ( 152.5 to 190 ) again an excellent result and referred Nedeltscho Kolev, which reached 332.5 kg to 2nd place. At the European Championships 1979 in Varna, he rose again to 345 kg ( 155-190 ) and won with this performance before Nedeltscho Kolev, 337.5 kg and Peter Wenzel, 332.5 kg. At the World Championships in 1979 in Salonika, he was by the Cuban Roberto Urrutia as Nedeltscho Kolev snatched 155 kg, surprised. He came in the snatch only 150 kg, and therefore had to go in pushing a high risk and start the competition with 190 kg. This weight was too high for him that day. He did not make it three times and therefore different without duel result of unplaced.
1980 occupied Jordan Mitkow in the Bulgarian championship 345 kg ( 150-195 ) behind the new Star Assen Slatew, 352.5 kg ( 157.5 to 195 ) and Nedeltscho Kolev, 350 kg ( 160-190 ) only the 3rd place and was therefore used in 1980 neither at the European Championships in Belgrade, even at the Olympic Games in Moscow.
He finished then his weightlifting career, in which he could be in contrast to a variety of other Bulgarian weightlifters never found guilty of doping. About his future is not known.
International success
WM & EM individual medals
- World Championship gold medals: 1975/Reißen/Mittel - 19767Stoßen/Mittel
- World Championship silver medals: 1975/Stoßen/Mittel
- World Cup bronze medals: 1976/Reißen/Mittel - 1979/Reißen/Mittel
- European gold medals: 1975/Reißen/Mittel - 1979/Reißen/Mittel - 1979/Stoßen/Mittel
- EM- Silver medals: 1975/Stoßen/Mittel
- EM bronze medals: 1976/Reißen/Mittel - 1976/Stoßen/Mittel
World Records
- Ale competitions in single combat, consisting of tearing and piercing,
- OS = The Olympic Games,
- WM = World Championship,
- EM = European Championships,
- Lightweight, then to 67.5 kg of body weight,
- Middleweight, then up to 75 kg body weight,
- The results at the 1976 Olympic Games were regarded as championship results