Lázaro Rivas
Lázaro " El Cocuyo " Rivas Scull ( born April 4, 1975 in San Nicolás de Bari, † December 22, 2013 in San José de las Lajas ) was a Cuban wrestler. He was world champion in 1999 and won in 2000, a silver medal at the Sydney Olympics, each in Greco -Roman style flyweight.
Career
Lázaro Rivas began in 1985 as a ten year old with the rings. He focused on the Greco- Roman style. After winning several medals, he was inducted into the Escuela de Iniciación Deportiva ( EIDE) the province of La Habana in 1987. 1990 saw the rise in the Escuela Superior de Perfeccionamiento Atlético ( ESPA ) in the country. Rivas was a member of the sports club Cerro Pelado Havana and was mainly trained by Pedor Val. He was a sports teacher and struggled throughout his career at flyweight.
His first start in a major international tournament he played in 1996. He qualified attend a tournament in Cali / Colombia by a 1st place for participation in the Olympic Games this year in Atlanta. So in Atlanta, he played as a 21 -year-old at the Olympic Games its first major international championship and became the first Olympian from San Nicolás de Bari. He defeated in his first battle the 1992 Olympic champion Jon Rønningen from Norway. After that, he still won against Khaled Al- Faraj from Syria, lost to poor Nasarjan from Armenia and against Samvel Danieljan from Russia and still won over Jordan Anew from Bulgaria, which he secured the 5th Place.
In 1997 he was in San Juan (Puerto Rico) Pan-American champion before Lee Broderick, United States and Mauricio Velez, Colombia. At the World Championships in 1997 in Breslau, he came to a victory over Rachimdschan Assembekow from Kazakhstan, then lost to Alfred Ter - Mkrtchyan from Germany, defeated yet Namik Mustafejew from Azerbaijan and Tero Eerik Katajisto from Finland, before moving to another defeat against Ha Tae- yeon retired from South Korea, finishing in 9th place. 1998 Lázaro Rivas Pan-American champion in Winnipeg before David Enrique Ochoa Garcia from Venezuela and Shawn Sheldon of the United States. At the World Cup this year, but was not used.
Then became the most successful year in the career of Lázaro Rivas 1999. First, he was the winner. During the Pan American Games in Winnipeg, where he won from the United States flyweight before David Enrique Ochoa Garcia and Steven A. Mays, then he was in Athens also world champion He defeated it Masatsune Sasaki, Japan, Marian Sandu, Romania, Tero EERI Katajisto, Kang Yong- gyun, North Korea, Alfred Ter - Mkrtchyan and Ha Tae- yeon. The greatest resistance made it Alfred Ter - Mkrtchyan, against which he won narrowly on points ( 5-3 points).
In the Olympic year 2000, Lázaro Rivas won in Cali / Colombia again at the Pan American Championships and referred David Enrique Ochoa Garcia and Brandon Paulson from the United States to the courts. At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney he came to victories over Ercan Yildiz, Turkey, Natig Aiwasow, Azerbaijan, Jotham Pellew, New Zealand and Andrij Kalaschnykow, Ukraine and thus stood in the finals of the Olympic champion in 1996 in the light flyweight Sim Gwon - ho of South Korea against, against which he, however, had no chance and lost on points. He thus won an Olympic silver medal.
2001 Lázaro Rivas in the final of panamerianischen Cup in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) was surprisingly beaten by Jorge Cardoso from Venezuela. Then he won a bronze medal at the World Championships in Patras / Greece. He won there over Claudiu Florin Gavrila, Romania, Artashes Minasjan, Armenia and Mukes Chatri, India. Then he lost to Hassan Rangraz from Iran and secured the bronze medal by defeating uranium Kalilow, Kyrgyzstan.
In 2002, Lázaro Rivas the Pan American Championship title back in Maracaibo. He won it in the final this time on Jorge Cardoso. At the World Cup of 2002, but he was not at the start. In 2003 he was in Santo Domingo winner at the Pan American Games in front of Brandon Paulson and Eduardo Freites from Venezuela and at the 2003 World Cup in Creteil, he won victories over Kamol Cholmatow, Uzbekistan, Brandon Paulson and uranium Kalilow, a defeat in Dae -won, South Korea and a victory over Petr Svehla, the Czech Republic again a bronze medal.
After another victory at the Pan-American Championships in 2004 in Guatemala City, where he won against Eduardo Freites and Julio Wilman Maldonado Quintanilla from Guatemala, he remained at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, the third, in which he took part, with a 5th place without a medal. He won in Athens on Samir Ben Chenaf, Algeria and Hassan Rangraz, then defeated by István Majoros from Hungary and yet triumphed over Irakli Chochua from Georgia.
2005 and 2006 Pan-American champion Lázaro Rivas in Guatemala City and in Rio de Janeiro again. But he took only at a World Cup, the part of Budapest in 2005. He triumphed over Claudiu Flores Gavrila, Masatoshi Toyota, Japan and Irakli Chochua, then lost to Hamid Soryan Reihanpour from Iran, won üer Wugar Ragimow, Ukraine and playful a bronze medal by a defeat against Ermek Kuketow from Kazakhstan.
In 2007, Lázaro Rivas won at the Pan American Championships in San Salvador only a bronze medal and finished after his international career Ringer. In February 2011, he retired finally retired from active sports.
On December 21, 2013 he attended a reggaeton concert in his hometown of San Nicolás de Bari and was injured during the event around midnight with eleven stab wounds in the back, neck and abdomen. The perpetrator, a nineteen- year-old athlete, turned later to the police. Rivas was indeed brought to the only ambulance in the province for intensive treatment in the hospital, 30 km away provincial capital San José de las Lajas to a Ersthilfebehandlung in the local infirmary and an hour of waiting, but there succumbed to his injuries. He was buried on December 24, 2013 in San Nicolás.
International success
Notes
- All competitions in the Greco-Roman style
- OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Cup
- Flyweight, 52 kg to 1996 from 1997 to 2001-54 kg abolished thereafter, bantamweight, since 2002 up to 55 kg body weight
Swell
- Journal The Ringer
- Website " www.themat.com "