Mnatsakan Iskandaryan

Mnazakan Iskandarjan (Armenian Մնացական Իսկանդարյան; born May 17, 1967 in Gyumri, Armenia ) is a former Soviet wrestler of Armenian origin. He was in Barcelona 1992 Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling in the welterweight division. After 1994 he went to Russia at the start.

Career

Mnazakan Iskandarjan began as a teenager in 1978 in Gyumri with the rings, where he was trained mainly by Korjun Mousisjan. He concentrated entirely on the Greco- Roman style. He struggled in the first lightweight, then to 68 kg body weight and changed later in the welterweight division, then to 74 kg body weight, over.

His first great success on the international wrestling mat, he scored in 1987, when he was in Vancouver ( Burnaby ) Junior World Champion ( espoir ) in lightweight. In the next few years, he first had to prevail against the toughest competition to come to other missions at international championships in the Soviet Union. Above all, he had this to do with Islam Duguschiew, Levon Dschulfalakjan, Mikhail Mamiaschwili, Daulet Turlychanow and Bisolt Deziew.

In 1989, he came at the European Championships in Oulu at lightweight for use. He fought there until the grand final where he was defeated by Hungary Attila Repka by points, European vice- champion.

In 1990 he moved about in the welterweight division and competed at the World Championships in Ostia for the Soviet Union after he had repressed the World Champion from 1989 Daulet Turlychanow from the team. He justified where its use because it was made ​​with victories over Anton Marchl from Austria, Erol Koyuncu from Turkey, Han Chi - Ho of South Korea, John Morgan from the United States, Zeliko Trajkovic from Yugoslavia, Jozef Tracz from Poland and Dobri Marinow Bulgaria 's new world champion.

This was followed by the two most successful years in the career of Mnazakan Iskandarjan. In 1991 he was in Aschaffenburg first European champion in the welterweight division, where he defeated from Sweden in the decisive battles Karila Tuomo from Finland and Torbjörn Kornbakk, then he was in the same year in Varna also world champion again in the same weight class. Here he defeated in the final battle Jaroslaw Zeman from Czechoslovakia.

At the European Championships 1992 in Copenhagen, he lost the final battle against welterweight Mircea Constantin of Romania. Soon afterwards, however, it turned out that Constantin was drugged, whereupon he removed the EM- Gold Medal and Mnazakan Iskandarjan was declared Welterweight European Champion 1992. Then at the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992, he started after the political changes in the Soviet Union for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). He was well prepared and successively defeated Travis West from the United States, Janus Takacs from Hungary, Karlo Kasap from Canada, Nestor Almanza of Cuba, Yvon Riemer from France and the Finale Jozef Tracz, his old Polish competitor, just 6-4 points and thus became Olympic champion in the welterweight division. This was his fifth consecutive victory in an international championship.

Once he paused in 1993, he decided in 1994 not to his native Armenia to return, but to start for Russia. He came to this country also the same for the 1994 World Cup in Tampere for use and was there before Jozef Tracz, Torbjörn Kornbakk, Stojan Dobrew from Bulgaria and Mircea Constantin, who had served a two-year doping suspension, for the third time in his career, world champion.

In the following years, where he was still active, he could no longer continue this great successes. So he lost at the World Championships 1995 in Prague against Yvon Riemer from France and in the fight for the bronze medal against Filiberto Ascuy Aguilera from Cuba, the downright outclassed him with 12:0 points. Also at the European Championships 1996 in Budapest, he could not prevail and only came to 6th place, where he was beaten in the battle for 5th place by Torbjörn Kornbakk.

In his last start at an international championship, the Olympic Games in Atlanta, he lost again after two wins against Filiberto Ascuy Aguilera, though just barely with 4:5 points. But then he also lost against the German Erik Hahn and indeed with 5:8 points and could only fight for the 5th place after a victory over Artur Dschigasow from Ukraine.

After he finished his career as an active wrestler. He was coach of the Russian national junior team of wrestlers in Greco- Roman style, and acted at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing for the first time as head coach of the Russian national team of senior wrestler in the Greco- Roman style.

Mnazakan Iskandarjan is also many German Ringer fans a term because it several years for the RWG Moembris -Königshofen and for the KSV Witten 07 in the German Bundesliga went to the mat in the 1990s.

International success

Notes

  • All competitions in Greco-Roman wrestling
  • OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =
  • Light weight until 68 kg, welterweight, and 74 kg body weight

Swell

  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
  • Journal The Ringer,
  • Website of the Armenian Olympic Committee
Armenian language Levon Julfalakyan Daulet Turlykhanov Municipio XIII Athens Ghani Yalouz 1990 World Wrestling Championships 1991 World Wrestling Championships Kelheim Wrestling at the 1992 Summer Olympics 1994 World Wrestling Championships Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics Ivar Johansson Rudolf Svedberg Mithat Bayrak Anatoly Kolesov Rudolf Vesper Anatoly Bykov (wrestler) Ferenc Kocsis Roman Vlasov List of Olympic medalists in Greco-Roman wrestling
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