Arawat Sabejew

Arawat Sabejew (Russian Арават Сабеев; * September 24, 1968 in Karaganda ) is a retired Soviet and German wrestler.

Career

Arawat Sabejew grew up in Karaganda and began under the guidance of his father Sergei with the rings. He was very talented and reached the age of 19 already standing on a high international level class of the Soviet wrestler in free style. He was 1.90 meters tall and weighed about 100 kg. In 1987 he made ​​his debut on the international wrestling mat for the Soviet Union. In Burnaby in Canada, he became junior world champion in the heavyweight division. In 1988 he became champion of Europe juniors in Walbrzych / Poland. He was then first used at a European Championship in 1989. He had a dazzling debut, as he was superior in Ankara European champions. Also in 1990 he was employed at the European Championships in Poznan again and won the European title again. In the final he beat while Andrzej Radomski from Poland. In a first round fight he beat it Heiko Balz from Luckenwalde, with whom he should in the future provide many duels still.

In 1991, it was the political upheavals in the Soviet Union, which led him to move to the Federal Republic of Germany. Although he was naturalized relatively quickly, but still lost in 1991 and 1992 as years of competition. In Germany he joined the VfK Schiffer city where he was supervised by Willi Heckmann. In 1993, he first went at the European Championships for the Federal Republic at the start. He began where he had left off in 1990, which after winning the European Championship title.

A setback for him there was at the 1993 World Championships in Toronto. Arawat had been persuaded unlearn almost 10 kg of body weight, so Heiko Balz, who won in 1992 in Barcelona in the heavyweight silver medal, was able to compete in this weight class. The experiment seemed to go well, because he won his first fights, but was in a fight against the Americans Melvin Douglas at a clear disadvantage. This defeat built him the way to the finals. Demotivated he also lost his next fight and had to be content with fifth place. But as the world champion this year Abbas Jadidi was subsequently disqualified from Iran because of a gross unsporting conduct, Arawat moved up to 4th place.

1994 Arawat concentrated with success on the World Championship in Istanbul. There he defeated John Roussow from South Africa, Mark Kerr from the U.S., David Musulbes from Russia and David Muhammadow from Azerbaijan and became world champion. The victory over Musulbus was there but just deserves.

In 1995 Arawat was very successful when he succeeded not renewed title. At the European Championships in Fribourg he was surprised in his first fight of Musulbes and lost with 2:5 points. Thereafter, however, he won all his fights and another made ​​in the fight for the bronze medal Estonians Arvi Aavik safe with 10:0 points from. At the World Championships the same year in Atlanta, he came behind the Americans Kurt Angle to 2nd place. At the end of the final battle between him and Angle it was 1-1 after scoring points. The judges then chose the local angle as the winner. However, most experts spoke of a miscarriage of justice, which was pronounced for the sake of the host country.

Ironically, in the Olympic year of 1996, Arawat big injury problems in a knee. As it turned out, his knee injury was so severe that he should not have rings. So it is not surprising that he came only to fifth place in the European Championship. At the Olympic Games in Atlanta to Arawat won despite the injury with a special performance the bronze medal. Olympic champion was world champion Kurt Angle, who once again a very benevolent judges had on his side. Like last year at the World Championships, it stood at the end of the final battle against Angle Abbas Jadidi from Iran 1:1 and the judges decided again for Angle as the winner. Angle had twice committed but Matt escape during the fight, which was not punished by the judges. Had the referee the rules traded correspond so Jadidi would have won the fight 3-1 points and would have become Olympic champion.

In the following years, Arawat could not so common place on the medal places. But he was. At the European Championships in 1997 and again the third winner at the European Championships of 2000 Vice European Champion In addition, he still achieved in some other tournaments, a lot of very good results.

Arawat ended after the 2000 season Olympic wrestler his international career, but struggled for some years very successfully for the VfK Schiffer city in the Bundesliga. It is now that he was a member of the Armed Forces during his playing career when kaufm. Clerks.

The results of the Championships and some other tournaments that Arawat Sabejew participated are to be seen in the following sections.

International Championships

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = Freestyle, Hs = light heavyweight, and 1996 up to 90 kg and from 1997-97 kg body weight, S = Heavy weight up to 1996 up to 100 kg body weight, SS = Super Heavyweight, to 1996, over 100 kg and 1997 from 97 kg to 130 kg body weight)

German Championships

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• International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig
• Journal The wrestler, numbers: 05 /89, 05/ 90, 04/ 93, 05/ 93, 09/ 93, 09/ 94, 06/ 95, 09/ 95, 04/ 96, 09/ 96, 09/ 97, 02 /00, 03/ 00, 04/ 00, 10/ 00
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