Amir Ali-Akbari
Amir Ali Akbari ( born December 11, 1987 in Shahriar ) is an Iranian wrestler. He was 2010 World Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling in heavyweight.
Career
Amir Ali Akbari wrestling since 2000, a member of the club Shahria Tehran, where it is trained by Nasser Nurbash. The 1.92 meter tall athlete shall compete at light heavyweight, but is likely due to its size, that it will soon change the way into the heavyweight division, where he already was active. He launched exclusively in Greco- Roman style.
His first great success on the international wrestling mat, he scored in 2007, when he was in Beijing in the middleweight class Junior World Champion. The jump to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, he but have not yet succeeded because of the strong competition in their own country.
But since 2009, he is the best wrestler in Iranian heavyweight. This was already evident in the Asian Championship 2009 in Pattaya, where he won the title before Margulan Assembekow from Kazakhstan and Anil Kumar from India. At the 2009 World Championships in Herning / Denmark, he scored a total of four wins, only to eventual champion Balázs Kiss from Hungary was defeated in the semifinals and then won his first medal at a world championship at senior level, the bronze.
To crown his career, the 2010 World Championships in Moscow were. There, he won the light heavyweight with wins over David Saldadse, Ukraine, Mohamad Abd El Fatah, Egypt, Kaloyan Dinchew, Bulgaria, the Olympic champion Aslanbek Chuschtow, Russia and Timofei Dseinitschenko, Belarus in superior style the world title.
In 2011, Amir Ali Akbari, was transferred at a training control of doping and banned for two years until July 10, 2013. After his suspension he started in 2013 at the Universiade in Kazan in the heavyweight division and reached there the final battle, which he lost to Riza Kayaalp from Turkey. However, it was already there, that he had evolved and the best in the world, even in the new weight class belongs. At the World Championships 2013 he proved this in an impressive way, because there he defeated Alexander Tschernezki, Ukraine, Edward Popp, Germany, Riza Kayaalp and Heiki Nabi, Estonia and became the new world champion. It can only be hoped that this achievement was earned by honest means.
Unfortunately, this hope proved to be a fallacy, because in reviewing the drug test, which he had to give up in the World Cup, it was found that Amir Ali Akbari was drugged again. The wrestler 's world governing body FILA has him then the world title in 2013 and withdrawn from life sentence locked him.
International success
- All competitions in Greco-Roman wrestling
- Middleweight up to 84 kg, light heavyweight to 96 kg Heavy weight up to 120 kg body weight
- WM = World Cup
Swell
- Journal The Ringer,
- Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
- Sites in the U.S. and the Russian Federation Ringer