Aleksey Glushkov

Alexei Jurjewitsch Glushkov (Russian Алексей Юрьевич Глушков; born March 9, 1975 in Moscow ) is a Russian wrestler. He won a bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in lightweight at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

Career

Alexei Glushkov began in 1985 with the rings. He later joined the army, but then switched to the police. He belonged to the Sports Club Dynamo Moscow and then to the sports club Torpedo Moscow. He was trained mainly by Alexei Tschiklisow. The 1.73 meter tall athlete fought exclusively in the Greco-Roman style, first in the lightweight and welterweight from 2003.

Due to the strong competition in his native Russia, it took until 1999 until he was able to qualify for participation in the international championships. This year, he was employed at the European Championships in Sofia in lightweight. He came there to five victories, winning equal to the European title. Particularly notable is his victory in the finals over the Polish world champion Ryszard Wolny. In the same year he was also military world champion at lightweight before Sergios Solontkis, Greece and Marcel Cooper from the United States in Zagreb. At the World Championships FILA 1999 in Athens, he was preferred by the Russian Wrestling Federation Alexander Tretyakov.

At the European Championships 2000 in Moscow, but he was at the start again, where she won with a clear points victory (5-0 ) in the finals on the Hungary Csaba Hirbik his second title at lightweight. A high point in his career was the participation in the Olympic Games in Sydney. He was there again at lightweight at the start and came to victories over Ryszard Wolny, Poland, Vladimir Kopytow, Belarus and Rustam Adschi, Ukraine. In the semifinals, he lost somewhat surprising against the Japanese Katsuhiko Nagata. But in the battle for the Olympic bronze medal he achieved a victory over the Estonians Valeri Nikitin.

In 2001, he came at the World Championships in Patras used. He defeated among others there at lightweight the young German Max Schwindt on points (4-0 ), but in the final struggle was defeated by Cuban Filiberto Ascuy Aguilera and thus won the World Championship silver medal.

2002 was once again carried out by the International Wrestling Federation ( FILA ) a weight class reform. The weight limit of the light weight was doing heraubgesetzt from 69 kg to 66 kg. As Alexei Glushkov could not bring the limit of 66 kg for the light weight, he had to move up to the welterweight division, which extends to 69 kg body weight. In this weight class he failed 2002 Russian Championships at Warteres Samurgaschew and therefore came this year to no international operations.

The year 2003 then became the most successful in the career of Alexei Glushkov. After winning the Russian championship title he competed at the European Championships in Belgrade welterweight and arrived there at five wins. In the final he beat Alexander Kikinow from Belarus, winning just his third European title. Also at the World Championships this year in Creteil he triumphed and secured with a points victory in the final over Konstantin Schneider of Germany first World Cup title.

But in 2004 he had to learn that it was in Russia itself as a world champion heavy to qualify for other international championships. He failed at the Russian Championships in Warteres Samurgaschew and Mikhail Ivanchenko, which were then preferred to him at the 2004 European Championships and at the Olympic Games in Athens. 2005 Alexei Glushkov could but in Saransk again be Russian welterweight champion before Mikhail Ivanchenko, Oleg Berdinskitsch and A. Demankin. He was therefore again at the European Championships this year in Varna in use, but there lost his first fight against Wladimir Schazkych from Ukraine and landed, as it did not reach the final round, knocked on the 21th Place. After that, he was with no international championships more at the start.

Alexei Glushkov is very well known in the German Ringer circles because it 05 for five years for the first Luckenwalder SC -ranking starting from the season 2004 / in the German Bundesliga.

International success

  • All competitions in the Greco-Roman style
  • OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =
  • Lightweight until 2001-69 kg since 2002-66 kg body weight, welterweight until 2001-76 kg since 2002-74 kg body weight

Swell

  • Website of the Institute for Applied Training Science of the University of Leipzig
  • Journal The Ringer
Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics Weight class (boxing) Aleksandr Vladimirovich Tretyakov 2001 World Wrestling Championships 2003 World Wrestling Championships Créteil Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics Bulgaria Almaty Badri Khasaia
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