Artur Michalkiewicz
Artur Paweł Michalkiewicz ( born September 11, 1977 in Wrocław ) is a former Polish wrestler. It was 2006 European Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling in the middleweight division.
Career
Artur Michalkiewicz began as a teenager in 1988 in his hometown with the rings. He concentrated on the Greco-Roman wrestling and was a member of the sports club to WKS Slask Wroclaw. His first coach was Jan Stroiny, later came Jerzy Adamek and Józef Tracz added yet. In order to exercise his sport, he was member of the military and launched after he had his first successes can reap, in the German Bundesliga for SV Johannis Nürnberg, the KSV Köllerbach, the KSV Witten 07 and the first Luckenwalder SC. At a size of "only" 1.73 meters, he was a stocky, very powerful wrestler.
He already came in the junior age his first appearance at an international championship. He, however, came at the Junior European Championships in 1995 in Witten in the weight category up to 74 kg only on the 10th Place. In 1997 he was in Istanbul but behind the Greeks Georgios TZIOLAS Vice - European Champion and in Turku behind the Hungary Sandor Bardosi vice-world champion in the junior.
1998 Artur Michalkiewicz was Polish champion in the senior welterweight, which still followed by several Polish league title for the first time. In 1999 he gave at the European Championships in Sofia his debut at an international championship of seniors. He finished this welterweight the 8th Place. In the next few years he took then regularly at world and European championships, first in the welterweight and middleweight from 2002. However, he was able to win any medals, although he beat so many world-class wrestlers. In 2000 he succeeded to qualify for the Olympic Games in Sydney. In Sydney he defeated welterweight Faafetai Iutana from Samoa, but lost to Vyacheslav Makarenko from Belarus and against Dawid Manukjan from Ukraine and reached the 9th place.
In 2004, he failed to qualify for the Olympic Games in Athens itself. In 2006 it then the greatest success was achieved in Moscow in his career. With victories over Nazmi Avluca, Turkey, Andrea Minguzzi, Italy, Alexei Mishin, Russia, Vyacheslav Makarenko and Denis Forow from Armenia, he was European champion at middleweight. Also in the 2006 World Cup in Guangzhou was Artur Michalkiewicz long time on a medal. He defeated there Vyacheslav Makarenko, Alexander Dokturischwili from Uzbekistan and Ara Abrahamian of Sweden, but then surprisingly lost against Kim - Jussi Nurmela from Finland. Since this did not reach the final, he left and ended up but only on the 7th Place.
In 2008, for the second time, he managed to participate in the Olympic Games. In Beijing he lost, however, like his first fight against Bradley Vering from the United States, which led to his resignation. He therefore came only on the 16th Place. One month after these Olympic then succeeded a prestige success, because he was in Split Military World Champion in front of Andrei Baranaowski, Belarus, Nenad Zugaj, Croatia and Jan Fischer, Germany.
The end of 2009 ended Artur Michalkiewicz its international and the end of 2011 its national wrestler 's career.
International success
Notes: - all competitions in the Greco- Roman style - OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship - welterweight weight class up to 2001-76 kg since 2002-74 kg middleweight, since 2002-84 kg body weight