Yang Hyun-mo

Yang Hyun- mo ( born March 23, 1971) is a South Korean wrestler. He won at the 1996 Olympics, a silver medal in free style at middleweight

Career

Yang Hyun -mo began as a teenager in 1984 with the rings, focusing on the free style. He belonged to the Sports Club Te Gong Sil Up Seoul and was mainly trainiert.der of You In - tak stocky strong athlete wrestled with a size of 1.74 meters in the middleweight division, the weight class up to 82 or 85 kg body weight.

His first start in an international championship he graduated at the age of 22 years. He took it at the Asian Championship in Ulan Bator teilund won there behind Amir Reza Khandem Azghadi from Iran and Gantogtoh Bayanmunch, Mongolia, a bronze medal. At the Asian Games in Hiroshima in 1994 and at the Asian Cup in 1995 in Manila, he missed with a 4th and 5th place just a medal. In 1985 he started in Atlanta for the first time at a World Cup, but there was only on the 17th Place.

1996 took Yang Hyun -mo at the Asian Cup in Xiaoshan / China behind Ruslan Kinchagow from Uzbekistan but ahead of the strong Iranian Alireza Heidari 2nd place. At the peak of his career then were the Olympic Games in Atlanta. He won there over Hidekazu Yokoyama, Japan, Laszlo Dvorak, Hungary and the former world champion Elmadi Dzhabrailov, Kazakhstan, he just held down 3-2 points and was thus in the final against Chadschimurad Magomedov of Russia. He gave this an open fight he narrowly lost with 1:2 points. He thus won the Olympic silver medal.

In 1997 he arrived at the East Asian Games in Pusan ​​behind Elmadi Dzhabrailov to 2nd place. In the 1998 World Cup in Tehran Yang Hyun -mo came on the 8th Place. He defeated while Ali Özen from Turkey and Sergei Borchenko, Belarus, then lost to Alireza Heidari, defeating Rasul Katinowasow, Uzbekistan and lost to Leslie Gutches from the United States. How well he wrestled here, it can be seen from the fact that the two defeats he suffered thereby, were extremely scarce. Counter Heidari, the world champion was later, he was defeated by 8.00 minutes fighting time with 0:1 points and also against Gutches after 8.00 minutes fighting time with a balanced score of 1:1 by Judge - decision.

Also in the 1999 World Cup in Ankara, he was in good shape and came to victories over Vincent Aka Akesse, France, Michael Michaelidis, Cyprus and Mahmed Aghajew, Armenia. His fourth fight he lost to Chadschimurad Magomedov of Russia, which had the effect his departure. He finished ends up being the 8th Place. His last championship, which he denied were the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. There he met in his first fight against the Russian double Olympic champion and multiple world champion Macharbek Chadarzew who went after several years break from competition at his fourth Olympics for Uzbekistan at the start. Yang Hyun -mo destroyed his hopes of another Olympic medal, because he defeated Chadarzew 3-2 points. He then triumphed even over Ali Özen, Turkey, before he lost to Adam Saitijew, Russia and Charles Burton from the United States and to place 6.

International success

Notes

  • All competitions in free style
  • OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Cup
  • Middleweight weight class up to 1996-82 kg 1997-2001 kg and 85 kg body weight

Swell

  • Journal The Ringer
  • Website Foeldeak Wrestling Database
Revised Romanization of Korean McCune–Reischauer Weight class (boxing) Khadzhimurad Magomedov Makharbek Khadartsev Amir Reza Khadem 1995 World Wrestling Championships Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics 1998 World Wrestling Championships 1999 World Wrestling Championships Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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