Mingiyan Semenov

Mingijan Arturowitsch Semyonov (* Russian Мингиян Артурович Семёнов, June 11, 1990 in Komsomolski, Tschernosemelski Rajon, Kalmykia ) is a Russian wrestler. He won a bronze medal in the bantamweight at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Career

Mingijan Semyonov was born Kalmuck. He came at the age of 10 years in 2000 to wrestle. His coaches were or are Boris Sambajew, VN Trifonov and Mikhail Gamsin. He now lives in Moscow, is a member of a local sports club and sports student. He wrestles only in Greco- Roman style.

The international career of Mingijan Semyonov began in 2005, when he finished at the Junior European Championships for cadets in Tirana in the weight class up to 42 kg of body weight 3rd place. Thereafter, however, he only came back in 2009 in appearance. In this year he became Russian Junior Champion bantamweight. He was then employed at the Junior World Championships in Ankara, failed there but with a 5th place medal ranks.

2010 came Mingijan Semyonov at the Russian Junior Championship at featherweight to 3rd place.

But the big successes came only in 2012. At the beginning of the year he won the prestigious " Ivan Poddubny " Memorial in Tyumen front of his countrymen Stepan Maranjan, Ivan and Sergei Tatarinow Popruschko. Subsequently, he also won the Golden Grand Prix in Istanbul before Ivan Tatarinow, Eltschin Aliyev, Azerbaijan and Kohei Hasegawa of Japan. Finally, he was also a Russian champion bantamweight before Nasir Mankijew, Stepan Maranjan and Rassoul Bekuch. But with the 2012 European Championship in Belgrade, where Eltschin Aliyev won the title, he came only to 5th place.

The Russian Wrestling Federation but still held him firmly and sent him to the Olympic Games to London. There, he lost his first fight against the same routine Azerbaijanis Rövşən Bayramov, but had so far fortunate that this reached the final. That's why he was able to wrestle in the consolation round and win with victories over Spenser Mango, United States, Li Shujin, China and Choi Gyu -jin, South Korea, still a bronze medal.

International success

Russian championships

Notes

  • All competitions in the Greco-Roman style
  • OS = The Olympic Games, World Cup WM = EM = Championship
  • Bantamweight weight class up to 55 kg, Featherweight, up to 60 kg body weight

Swell

  • Journal The Ringer
  • Website " www.wrestrus.ru "
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