Levon Julfalakyan

Dschulfalakjan Levon (Armenian Լեւոն Ջուլֆալակյան; born April 5, 1964 in Gyumri, Armenia ) is a former Soviet wrestler of Armenian origin. He was in Seoul 1988 Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling in lightweight.

Career

Levon Dschulfalakjan began at the age of 13 years in Gyumri with the rings. He concentrated fully on the Greco-Roman wrestling and was trained within a few years of coach Aram Sarkisian to a world class wrestler. At a size of only 1.61 meters, he was a stocky and immensely powerful wrestler with great fighting spirit and an outstanding technical ability in the course of his career scoring paired with great success. During his career he was a wrestler at the Red Army, where he was athletic particularly encouraged.

His first major international success came Levon Dschulfalakjan at the Junior World Championship in 1984 in Frederikshavn / Denmark. He got there in the lightweight title before Claudio Passarelli from Germany and Marian Bandow from Bulgaria.

In the Soviet Union ruled in those years Mikhail Prokudin happening in the lightweight class, against which Levon Dschulfalakjan only had to prevail. In 1985 it was not yet possible that, but in 1986 it was the first time Soviet champion in light weight and therefore the # 1 in the USSR. He was then employed at the European Championships in Piraeus, where he held a sensational debut. The rapporteur in the German trade magazine The wrestler reveled by him in the highest terms. He wrote in the No. 5/1986 on page 8: "In the final of the lightweight the light of Russians Levon Dzufalakian shone especially, because he gave the Bulgarians Rumen Gentsev a free idle hour in a classic wrestling match, the Russian fighting machine scored without ceasing and. landed a 16:3 victory. the struggle of the Russian who has the figure of a weightlifter, was for me the most impressive victory. the swing handles and lifters of all Dzufalakian enthusiastic audience in Piraeus ( it was the spelling of the name in the " Ringer " is used ).

In the same year he also became world champion in the lightweight in Budapest. However, he had this trouble to defeat the Germans Claudio Passarelli, who thought himself quite outstanding against him in Poolendkampf just on points. But his victory in the finals over the Finn Tapio Sipilä was convincing again.

How tough was the competition in their own country, Levon Dschulfalakjan had to experience in 1987 when he was defeated at the Soviet Championship of Aslaudin Abajew. Was Abajew this year then world and European champions.

In 1988, however, he fought his way back the leading position of the Soviet wrestler at lightweight and has been used at the Olympic Games in Seoul. There he dominated the lightweight class similar superior as in the 1986 World Cup and was in front of the South Korean Kim Sung -Moon Olympic champion. For this purpose, it is said in the journal The Ringer, No. 10/ 1988, page 5: " The Olympic champion Levon Dschulfalakian (USSR ) was a sensationally good wrestler, which in the final the judges were not able to take the victory over Kim. " The rapporteur was referring to the many errors of judgment of courts martial in the Olympic tournament and the Olympic boxing tournament Ringer, in which the South Korean athletes were often crass preferred.

At the World Cup 1989 in Martigny / Switzerland Levon Dschulfalakjan then experienced a surprise. He was not quite in good shape for the years 1986 and 1988 and was beaten on points in the final pool of Claudio Passarelli. It was the only defeat he suffered at an international championship in which he participated. With a win over Alexis Jimenez from Cuba but he still saved the bronze medal.

After the 1989 World Series Levon Dschulfalakjan occurred, although he was only 25 years old, from the International Sports Ringer back. He completed a coach and teacher training. After that, he was for many years manager in the Soviet Union and Armenia, for which he opted in the collapse of the Soviet Union. He also practiced for many years in the office of the chief coach of the Armenian national team wrestler in the Greco- Roman style. Now (2009) he has been Vice - President of the Armenian wrestler Association and for several years president of the Union of Armenian Olympian in the National Olympic Committee of Armenia. Have fun preparing his son Dschulfalakjan arsenic, which was 2009 European Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling in the welterweight division.

International success

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Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
Journal The Ringer,
Website of the Armenian Olympic Committee

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Profile of Levon Dschulfalakjan at the Institute for Applied Training Science

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