Abbas Jadidi
Abbas Jadidi ( born January 13, 1969 in Tehran ) is a former Iranian wrestler.
Career
Jadidi began at the age of eight years with the struggle and became a member of the sports club " Shiroudi " Tehran, where he specialized in the freestyle wrestling, a style with a great tradition in Iran. In 1989, he competed in the Junior World Championships in Ulaanbaatar and took there the 2nd place in the middleweight division. Throughout his career, he grew up at a size of 1.83 m above the heavyweight - up in the heavyweight inside.
In 1991 he represented Iran for the first time at the World Championships for seniors. In Varna, he reached the seventh place in the light heavyweight division. The jump to the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, he is not managed, but was in 1993 in Ulaanbaatar for the first time Asian champion in the heavyweight division.
At the World Championships in Toronto in 1993 he became world champion in the light heavyweight before the colored Americans Melvin Douglas. Jadidi could be at the awards ceremony, animated by his team's lead, opposite Melvin Douglas carried away to a coarse unsportsmanlike conduct, so that he won the world title on the mat was denied by the officials of the International Association FILA wrestler. In 1994, he was locked for international competitions.
In the course of his career, Jadidi behaved always sporty and still came to a number of major successes. He won at the Olympics in Atlanta in 1996, the silver medal in the heavyweight division after he had already won the World Cup in 1995 at the same place after a semi-final defeat against the Americans Kurt Angle a bronze medal. Against Kurt Angle, he also lost the battle for the Olympic gold medal in 1996.
The greatest success of his career, he celebrated in 1998 by winning the world title at light heavyweight in the domestic Tehran. In the final he defeated while the strong Poland Marek Garmulewicz with a 0-0 score by judges decision.
In 1999 he competed at the World Championships in Ankara for the first time in the heavyweight division, finishing in 3rd place, after losing in the semifinals against Andrei Shumilin from Russia on points. At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney he missed with the 4th place just a medal and ended up at the 2001 World Championships in Sofia, on the 7th Place. In 2002 he started again at the Asian Games in Busan and finished with a 2nd place in the heavyweight behind the silver medalist from the 2000 OS Artur Taymazov from Uzbekistan from his international career.
2006 Jadidi was head coach of the Iranian Freestyle team.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = Freestyle, Mi = middleweight, light heavyweight Hs =, S = Heavy weight)
- 2000, 4th place, OS in Sydney, F, S, behind Dawid Mussulbes, Russia, Artur Taymazov, Uzbekistan and Alexis Rodríguez Valera, Cuba and before Kerry McCoy, USA and Alexei Medvedev, Belarus;
- 2001, 7th place, World Cup in Sofia, F, S, behind Dawid Mussulbes, Artur Taymazov, Alexis Rodríguez Valera, McCoy, Aydın Polatçı and Bojidar Boyadschiew, Bulgaria;
- 2002, 2nd Place, Asian Games in Busan, F, S, behind Artur Taymazov and before Cheema Palwinder Singh, India