Daniel Igali
Barladei Daniel Igali ( born February 3, 1974 in Eniwari, Bayelsa, Nigeria ) is a former Nigerian or Canadian wrestler. Olympic champion in 2000 and world champion in 1999 in free style in lightweight
Career
Daniel Igali was born Igali Baraladei as a member of the living in the Niger Delta Nigerian people of the Ijaw as one of 21 children. As a child he began there with the rings upon the traditional method of Ijaw people, which has a resemblance to the Greco-Roman style. It is fought on a meadow and underscored the struggle of a drum.
At 16 he turned to the Olympic rings and was in the same year Nigerian bantamweight champion in Greco-Roman. Style. In 1991 he represented his country at the All African Games in Cairo. He wrestled there again in Greco-Roman. Style featherweight and finished behind the Egyptian Ahmed Kamel Mohammed the 2nd place. In 1993, he wrestled at the African Championships in Pretoria. He came here in the Greco- Roman style featherweight again behind Ahmed Kamel Mohammed to 2nd place and was in the same weight class African champion in free style with a win in the final battle over Tjonke van Rensburg from South Africa.
In 1994 he was again in Cairo African featherweight champion in free style. He won there before Mumgoma Rhodesia from the Ivory Coast and Ashraf Abdel from Egypt. 1994 represented Igali Baraladei his country Nigeria also at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada. He started at featherweight in free style, but could only occupy the 9th place there. After these games, he decided to remain in Canada. After some difficult early years, he was adopted by a Canadian family and took the name Daniel Igali. He began studying at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby and was a member of the Mountain Wrestling Club Burnaby. In 1997 he was Canadian champion in free style to which he concentrated now, taken in a light weight and in the Canadian national team. He received the Canadian citizenship in 1998.
Coached by David McKay he was in 1998 so far that he could go to the start of the World Championship in Tehran for Canada at lightweight. In Tehran, he defeated Almazbek Askarov from Kyrgyzstan and Mariusz Dabrowski from Poland, then defeated by Zaza Zazirow from Ukraine, but defeated the European champions Emzarios Bentinidis from Greece. He was thus in the fight for the bronze medal, which he however lost against Lincoln McIlravy from the United States.
In 1999 he competed in the World Cup in Spokane and attended there after beating Ali Akbar Nejad from Iran, Yosvany Larrudet Sánchez from Cuba and Jens Gündling from Germany and one defeat against Lincoln McIlravy the 2nd place. At the Pan American Games in Winnipeg this year, he came up behind Lincoln McIlravy and Yosvany Sánchez Larrudet to 3rd place. At the World Championship 1999 in Ankara, he then surprised at lightweight the entire competition and defeated in the lightweight Jens Gündling, Mario Hartmann from Austria, Ahmat Al- Osta from Syria, Emzarios Bentinidis and in the finals for the first time Lincoln McIlravy and thus became world champion in the lightweight.
Quite concentrated Daniel Igali went in 2000 at the Olympic Games in Sydney. He started back in the lightweight and won with victories over Emzarios Bentinidis, Amir Tavakolian from Iran, Yosvany Sánchez Larrudet, Lincoln McIlravy and arsenic Gitinow from Russia, about the fight for victory with 7:4 techn it. Points won, also the Olympic gold medal. He was the first born in Black Africa wrestler, Olympic champion and world champion. Before him, it had managed only from Africa Egyptian wrestler.
Daniel Igali continued to Sydney his career still up to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens continued. At the World Championship 2001 in Sofia he defeated in the lightweight among others Irbek Valentinovich Farnijew from Russia, but lost in his third fight against Yosvany Sánchez Larrudet which he retired and finished only 9th place. In 2002 he started again at the Commonwealth Games, held in Manchester and won the welterweight before Sunday Opiah from his former mother country Nigeria and Reinold Ozolins from Australia. At the World Cup 2002 in Tehran, he failed in the welterweight division after two battles won again in his third fight at Volodymyr Sirotin from Ukraine, against which he did with 3:4 techn. Points subject. He got away with it on the 5th Place.
At the World Championship 2003 in New York, the same picture emerged. Daniel Igali won his first two fights, only to lose it again in the third fight against Gennady Lalijew from Kazakhstan. This time ranged these results only for 11th place.
In 2004 he fought Daniel Igali with a 4th place in Qualifying Tournament in Bratislava subscriber eligibility for the Olympic Games in Athens. In Athens he won in his first two fights over Yusup Abdussalomow from Tajikistan and Elnur Aslanow from Azerbaijan, but Iván Fundora from Cuba he lost and reached the 6th place.
After these games Daniel Igali ended his career Ringer and completed his studies in criminology at Simon Fraser University from. In the years in Canada he has his Nigerian origin never forget or deny. He founded a society for the support of the needy population in Nigeria, whose honorary president he is " Igali Foundation Inc. ". With donations, this company built especially schools in Nigeria.
International success
Note: OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = Freestyle, spring weight until 62 kg, light weight, up to 1996 up to 68kg from 1997 to 2001-69 kg welterweight, from 2002 to 74 kg body weight
Swell
- Journal The Ringer,
- Website of the Institute for Applied Training Science of the University of Leipzig,
- Website of the Canadian Association of Ringer