Arsen Alakhverdiyev

Arsenic Schachlamasowitsch Alachwerdijew ( born January 24, 1949) is a former Soviet wrestler, Olympic silver medalist in Munich in 1972 and three times European Champion in free style flyweight.

Career

Arsenic Alachwerdijew comes from Dagestan. He started there at a young age with the rings and focused totally on the free style. After first major success, he was delegated to the Army Sports Club " SKA " Makhachkala. He found an excellent environment prior to the then customary in the socialist countries good promotion. His coach was A. Karapetyan. Attention first to be made ​​Alachwerdijew when he placed 3rd in free style flyweight behind G. Dmitriev and N. Mikeladze in V. Völkerspartakiade the USSR in 1971. After he had continued to improve, in 1972 he was employed at the European Championships in Katowice. He convinced there right away and was European Champion with six wins. He succeeded in doing a premature victory over the multiple Bulgarian champions Baju Baew. Alachwerdijew was also used at the Olympic Games in Munich. He had to deny there eight fights, of which he won five, drawn and twice he wrestled against the Japanese Kiyomi Kato he narrowly lost on points and thus the gold medal.

At the European Championships in 1973 in Lausanne Alachwerdijew defended his European title from last year successfully with six wins. His fiercest rival was here Ali Riza Alan from Turkey, but he was able to defeat safely on points. At the World Championships the same year in Tehran arsenic won five times. But he lost the decisive battle for the gold medal against the local heroes Ibrahim Javadi just on points.

1974 Alachwerdijew was with no international championships at the start. He came at the European Championship 1975 in Ludwigshafen used again and won there for the third time the European Championship title, even though he had lost in a first round fight against Ali Riza Alan. At the World Cup of 1974, the Soviet coach Telman Pashayev gave the preference.

In 1976 Alachwerdijew finally finished at the European Championships in Leningrad to a surprising defeat by Henryk Gál from Hungary 2nd place. Probably this defeat was responsible for the fact that the Soviet coach plead with the 1976 Olympic Games Alexander Nikolayevich Ivanov flyweight, which however was not Olympic champion.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = free style, Fl = Flyweight, then to 52 kg body weight)

Swell

• Various editions of the journal " Athletics " from the years 1971 to 1976
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976