Artem Teryan

Artyom Sarkissowitsch Terjan ( born March 5, 1930; † 1970) is a former Soviet wrestler, world champion in 1953 and Olympic bronze medalist in 1952.

Career

Artyom Terjan, an Armenian from Kirovabad, began as a teenager with the rings. He grew up to the age of 20 to become a world class wrestler in two styles, which specialized in international championships on the Greco- Roman style. In 1950 he became Soviet champion in Greco-Roman bantamweight for the first time. He repeated this success in 1951 when he won Staschkewitsch from Rostov-on- Don in front of the Moscow and Vladimir Lenz. In the same year he also became Soviet champion in free style bantamweight.

His international career began Artyom at the World Festival of Youth in Berlin (East). He won at this event, which was regarded as the antithesis of the communist states to the Olympic Games in Greco-Roman Bantamweight before Hódos Imre from Hungary.

1952 Artyom was re- Soviet champion in Greco-Roman wrestling before Telkow, Moscow and Roman Dsneladse, Tbilisi, however featherweight. At the Olympic Games the same year in Helsinki, the first Olympics in which the Soviet Union participated, Artem won the bronze medal with six wins bantamweight. In the battle for the gold medal thereby defeated mutually Artyom Terjan, Zakaria Chihab from Lebanon and Imre Hódos from Hungary, so that the points had to opt out of the preliminaries. This Artyom had the bad luck that the six he won battles five point wins were by which he got each injury inflicts a missing dot. Chihab and Hódos were lucky enough to each get a bye, so they came in four -point victories only on four failure points and therefore prior to Artyom. Artyom, who had therefore to have a victory over Chihab and Hódos was actually "punished" for this win the bronze medal, while Hódos gold and silver Chihab won.

1953 succeeded Artyom Terjan then the victory at the World Championships in Naples in the Greco-Roman Bantamweight. This time he stayed in five fights without defeat and referred Imre Hódos to 2nd place.

At the World Championships in 1955 in the Greco-Roman style in Karlsruhe Artyom was used at featherweight. He defeated first Roger Bielle from France and Joseph Mewis from Belgium on points, but then was defeated in his third fight quite surprising against the Italian Umberto Trippa and had to retire.

Then Artyom Terjan were no further deployments at international championships more.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style, Ba = bantamweight, featherweight = Fe, then to 57 kg or 62 kg body weight)

Swell

• Various editions of the journal " Athletics " from the years 1951 to 1955
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976