Ion Draica
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Born | 5 January 1958 (1958-01-05) (age 66) Constanţa, Romania[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Greco-Roman wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Farul Constanţa[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ion Draica (born 5 January 1958) is a retired middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Romania. He won the world title in 1978, the European title in 1977–1979 and an Olympic gold medal in 1984.[3]
Draica spent his entire career with the club Farul Constanţa, and after retiring from competitions became its president. In 2000 he was also appointed as president of Romanian Federation of Wrestling.[2] In parallel he was involved in questionable business activities, which resulted in large debts and divorce with his wife Daniela.[4]
References
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External links
- Ion Draica at the International Wrestling Database
- Ion Draica at Olympedia
- Ion Draica at the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee (in Romanian)
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Frithiof Mårtensson (SWE)
- 1912
Claes Johanson (SWE)
- 1920
Carl Westergren (SWE)
- 1924
Edvard Westerlund (FIN)
- 1928
Väinö Kokkinen (FIN)
- 1932
Väinö Kokkinen (FIN)
- 1936
Ivar Johansson (SWE)
- 1948
Axel Grönberg (SWE)
- 1952
Axel Grönberg (SWE)
- 1956
Givi Kartozia (URS)
- 1960
Dimitar Dobrev (BUL)
- 1964
Branislav Simić (YUG)
- 1968
Lothar Metz (GDR)
- 1972
Csaba Hegedűs (HUN)
- 1976
Momir Petković (YUG)
- 1980
Gennady Korban (URS)
- 1984
Ion Draica (ROM)
- 1988
Mikhail Mamiashvili (URS)
- 1992
Péter Farkas (HUN)
- 1996
Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)
- 2000
Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)
- 2004
Aleksey Mishin (RUS)
- 2008
Andrea Minguzzi (ITA)
- 2012
Alan Khugaev (RUS)
- 2016
Davit Chakvetadze (RUS)
- 2020
Zhan Beleniuk (UKR)
- 1908: 73 kg
- 1912–1928: 75 kg
- 1932–1960: 79 kg
- 1964–1968: 87 kg
- 1972–1996: 82 kg
- 2000: 85 kg
- 2004–2012: 84 kg
- 2016: 85 kg
- 2020–present: 87 kg
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