Amiran Kardanov
Amiran Kartanow (Russian Амиран Картанов, Greek Αμιράν Καρτάνοβ, born August 19, 1976 in Tschikola, Rajon Ifarski, Nordossetische ASSR ) is a Greek wrestler. He won a bronze medal in the free style flyweight at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
Career
Amiran Kartanow began in 1987 as a teenager in North Ossetia (Russia ) with the rings. He focused on the free style and fought as an adult at a size of 1.56 meters always in the lightest weight class, the Flyweight, since 2002 the bantamweight. At the age of 18 he was sent by the Russian Wrestling Federation for World Youth Championship in Budapest and there celebrated a successful debut at international championships. He was born in Budapest same junior world champion in the flyweight before Bae Jin- kuk, South Korea and Reza Azimi, Iran. In 1995, he was also at the Junior World Championship ( espoir = age group to age 20 ) in Tehran at the start, but there was only on the 7th Place.
In 1996 he went for economic reasons, wrestling is his profession, to Greece and became naturalized there immediately. He became a member of the wrestling clubs toilet Iraklis Piresteri and being or has been trained there by Christos Alexandridis and Panagotis Koutsoupakis. Already at the 1996 European Championships in Budapest and at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta he could go to Greece at the start. But he did not medal in the area at both events. In Budapest, he arrived on the 7th Place and in Atlanta he landed after defeats against Atscham Achilow from Uzbekistan and Lou Rosselli from the United States even only on the 16th Place.
In 1997, he was not used at the European Championships and the World Cup. In the Mediterranean Games in Bari, he came flyweight only on the 4th rank.
A big step forward succeeded Amiran Kartanow then in 1998. He won at the European Championships in Bratislava with the 3rd place of the first medal win at an international championship in Seniorenbereioch. On the way to the bronze medal defeating amongst other things Poor Mkrtchyan of Armenia, Namig Abdullayev from Azerbaijan and Murad Ramazanow from Russia. This good result he was able to confirm at the World Championships this year in Tehran. There he defeated Ping Huiniu from China, Alexander Sacharjuk from Ukraine, Jung Soon- woo of South Korea, Vasili Zeiher from Germany and Tschetschenol Mongusch from Russia. The road to the finals was blocking the Samuel Henson from the United States, against whom he had been defeated in his second fight. The fight for a world championship bronze medal bout against Gholamreza Mohammadi from Iran (1:3 points).
In 1999, Amiran Kartanow could not build on the successes of 1998. He lost at the European Championships in Minsk in his first fight against Alexander Sacharjuk and therefore finished only 11th Place and in the World Cup this year in Ankara he admittedly came to victories over Vitaly Railean from Moldova and Vasili Zeiher, but then he lost against Gholamreza therefore Mohammadi and reached only the 10th Place.
Because of the poor performance at the international championships in 1999 Amiran Kartanow had in the spring of 2000, four heavy Olympic qualification tournaments contest in which he had to travel almost all around the world until he for a place in the Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney necessary points had together. These were tournaments in Minsk (6th place ), Leipzig, ( 14th place ), Tokyo ( 5th place) and Mexico City (6th place ). Because of this grueling mode for the wrestlers came to the International Wrestling Federation ( FILA ), a fifth tournament in which Amiran Kartanow not participated, took place in Alexandria, in strong criticism and then changed this procedure. Despite these efforts, or perhaps because of it, he was at the 2000 European Championships in Budapest in good shape and was defeated in the battle for the European Championship bronze medal the Bulgarians Ivan Welkow Djorew only slightly with 5:6 points. In the Olympics, he improved on and defeated Vitaly Railean, Behnan Tayebi Kermani and Zuunbayan Tumenbemberel from Mongolia. In the fight for a place in the final he was defeated by Namig Abdullayev, but later won the battle for an Olympic bronze medal against German Kontojew from Belarus 5-4 points.
In the following years Amiran Kartanow won more medals at three European Championships. In 2001 he was European Vice-Champion in Budapest, where he narrowly lost the final against Ghenadie Tulbea from Moldova with 5:6 points. In 2003 he was again Vice-European Champion in Riga. In the final he defeated his old rival in Riga Namig Abdullayev. In 2006, he finally won a bronze medal in Moscow, which he won with a 5-1 points victory over Wladislaus Andreyev from Belarus.
At the World Championships of those years he was not so successful. The best result he reached was a 6th place at the World Cup 2006 in New York. He won among others, there about Bessarion Gotschaschwili from Georgia. The collection in the fighting for the medals denied in there, the Iranians Mohamad Aslani, who defeated him on points.
A successful year for Amiran Kartanow was also the year 2004. He finished that year at the European Championships in Ankara the 4th Place and reached this place at the Olympic Games in Athens and missed so only just another Olympic medal. He came to Athens at three wins, but lost to eventual Olympic champion Mawlet Batirow from Russia and in the fight for the bronze medal against Chikara Tanabe from Japan.
The international career of amiRNA Kartanow went in 2008 to an end when it no longer, he managed to qualify for the Olympic Games in Beijing. But in the German Bundesliga, he is still very active. He wrestles in the season 2010/ 11 for the KSV Aalen 05, after he had previously gone to the VfK Schiffer city, the KSV Witten 07 and the first Luckenwalder SC at the start.
In 2002, Amiran Kartanow saw exposed in Greece the accusation that he had accelerated its rapid naturalization in 1996 by presenting false documents. Obviously he could but refute these allegations, for he also started after that for Greece.
International success
Notes
- All competitions in free style
- OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =
- Flyweight weight class 52 kg to 1996, from 1997 to 2001-54 kg body weight, then abolished, bantamweight, since 2002 up to 55 kg body weight
Swell
- Journal The Ringer
- Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig