Vasile Andrei
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Born | (1955-07-28) 28 July 1955 (age 69) Albeşti, Romania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 100 kg (220 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Greco-Roman wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Progresul Bucuresti Steaua București[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Dumitru Pârvulescu Gheorghe Suteu[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Vasile Andrei (born 28 July 1955) is a retired heavyweight wrestler from Romania. He competed in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1980, 1984 and 1988 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1980 and a gold medal in 1984. At the 1984 Olympics he also placed sixth in freestyle wrestling,[2] and in 1980 and 1988 served as flag bearer for Romania at the opening ceremony.[3] At the world and European championships he won six medals in Greco-Roman wrestling between 1979 and 1987.[4]
Andrei took up wrestling at Progresul Bucuresti coached by Dumitru Pârvulescu and later moved to Steaua București. After retiring from competitions he worked as a wrestling coach, and in 2000 trained the Tunisian national team.[1]
References
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- 1908:
Richárd Weisz (HUN)
- 1912:
Yrjö Saarela (FIN)
- 1920:
Adolf Lindfors (FIN)
- 1924:
Henri Deglane (FRA)
- 1928:
Rudolf Svensson (SWE)
- 1932:
Carl Westergren (SWE)
- 1936:
Kristjan Palusalu (EST)
- 1948:
Ahmet Kireççi (TUR)
- 1952:
Johannes Kotkas (URS)
- 1956:
Anatoly Parfyonov (URS)
- 1960:
Ivan Bogdan (URS)
- 1964:
István Kozma (HUN)
- 1968:
István Kozma (HUN)
- 1972:
Nicolae Martinescu (ROM)
- 1976:
Nikolay Balboshin (URS)
- 1980:
Georgi Raykov (BUL)
- 1984:
Vasile Andrei (ROM)
- 1988:
Andrzej Wroński (POL)
- 1992:
Héctor Milián (CUB)
- 1996:
Andrzej Wroński (POL)
- 2000:
Mikael Ljungberg (SWE)
- 2004:
Karam Gaber (EGY)
- 2008:
Aslanbek Khushtov (RUS)
- 2012:
Ghasem Rezaei (IRI)
- 2016:
Artur Aleksanyan (ARM)
- 2020:
Musa Evloev (ROC)
- 2024:
Mohammad Hadi Saravi (IRI)
- 1912–1928: +82.5 kg
- 1932–1960: +87 kg
- 1964–1968: +97 kg
- 1972–1996: 100 kg
- 2000: 97 kg
- 2004–2012: 96 kg
- 2016: 98 kg
- 2020–present: 97 kg
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