Aleksandr Pavlov (wrestler)
Alexander Valeryevich Pavlov (born 9 July 1973 in Sowetsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union ) is a retired Belarusian wrestler. He won a silver medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in the paper weight at the Olympic Games in 1996.
Career
Alexander Pavlov began as a teenager in 1983 in the Soviet Union with the rings. He concentrated on the Greco- Roman style. In 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, he competed for Belarus. He was a member of the sports club Profsojuz Grodno, where he was coached by Vyacheslav Maximov. He was very easy and started at a size of 1.54 meters in the lightest weight class, the paper weight, the weight limit at 48 kg body weight was and after the loss of this weight class from 1997 Flyweight ( up to 54 kg body weight). Alexander Pavlov also wrestled in the German Bundesliga.
In 1992 he started for Ukraine at the Junior European Championships ( espoir = age group to age 20 ) in Székesfehérvár. He finished behind Magomed Magomedov there from Russia, but against poor Nasarjan from Armenia the 2nd place. That was the beginning of his international career.
In the senior, he started for the first time in 1993 at an international championship. He came here at the World Championships in Stockholm on the 10th Place. At the European Championships 1994, held in Athens, he cut only marginally better off, because he was there ninth. In the same year he was also employed at the World Championships in Tampere, where he cut excellent. He fought there until the final before, but this was defeated in against Wilber Sánchez from Cuba. But he was so vice-champion.
At the European Championships in 1995 in Besançon, he was defeated by the since 1993 starting for Germany 1992 Olympic champion Oleg Kucherenko ( 1:6 techn. Dots) and finished in 4th place the paper weight, which he narrowly missed a medal. Against Oleg Kucherenko defeated Alexander Pavlov also at the 1995 World Championships in Prague ( with 0:5 techn. Dots). He arrived there on the 6th Place. He occupied the same seat at the 1996 European Championships in Budapest. At the peak of his career then the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996. He reached the finals and defeated the South Koreans in this Sim Kwan -ho on points ( 0:4 techn. Dots). However, the profit of the Olympic silver medal was the biggest success in his career.
After Alexander Pavlov reached no more top rankings in international championships. Also for participation in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney he could no longer qualify.
International success
Note: all contests in Greco -Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, paper weight, up to 1996 kg to 48 kg body weight, abolished thereafter, Flyweight, and 1996 -52 kg from 1997 to 2001-54 kg body weight
Swell
- Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig
- Journal The Ringer