Mahaddin Allahverdiyev

Magyatdin Allachwerdijew ( born May 8, 1962) is a former Soviet wrestler of Azerbaijani descent. He was in the years 1985, 1986 and 1987 world champion in Greco-Roman wrestling in the paper weight

Career

Magyatdin Allachwerdijew began as a teenager in 1976 with the rings. As a member of the Soviet security organs, he became a member of the Sport Club Dinamo Baku. He struggled throughout his career always in the paper weight, the lightest weight class that had their weight limit at 48 kg body weight at the time. For this weight class he was relatively large with 1.62 meters.

In the years 1981 and 1982 he worked as a junior ( espoir = to age 20 ) quite successfully. So he took at the Junior World Championship 1981 in Vancouver behind the Americans Mark Fuller 2nd place and let it with Bratan Zenow, Bulgaria, Bernd Scherer, Germany, Vincenzo Maenza, Italy & Lars Rønningen, Norway Ringer behind, with whom he had to constantly do it in the next few years with the seniors. At the Junior European Championship 1982 in Leipzig, he finished 3rd behind Markus Scherer, Germany and Bratan Zenow.

Magyatin Allachwerdijew had in the Soviet Union in his weight class tough competition. It may be mentioned here the names Timor Taimuraz Kasaraschwili, Vasily Anikin, Ivan Samtajew and Sergei Suvorov. Is all the more remarkable that he came in the years up to 1988 frequent use for the Soviet Union in international championships. This frequency is of course to thank his successes he achieved in that time. It began with the title at the 1984 European Championship in Jonkoping. It won there in weight through Andreas Klimmt from the GDR, Salih Bora, Turkey, Pekka Tanner, Finland, Vincenzo Maenza and Ortze Ortzew from Bulgaria. Olympic fame he came not in 1984, because the Soviet Union boycotted the Olympic Games this year in Los Angeles.

In the years 1985-1987 Magyatdin Allachwerdijew was regularly used in the World Championships, while at the European Championships one of the above Soviet wrestler went to the start. At the World Cup 1985 in Kolbotn, a suburb of Oslo, he won his first world title. In the final he defeated while the World Champion from 1983 Bratan Zenow from Bulgaria. The second world title he won at the 1986 World Championship in Budapest, where he again Bratan Zenow defeated in the final. In 1987 Magyatdin Allachwerdijew eventually won in Clermont-Ferrand third world title in a row. Here he defeated in the final Vincenzo Maenza, who was at the Junior World Championships one of his competitors in 1981.

Based on these successes Magyatdin Allachwerdijew launched at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, of course, as a favorite in paper weight. But to the surprise of the entire world wrestler he lost in the finals of his pools against Poland Andrzej Głąb pretty clearly with 5:10 techn. Points and therefore could fight for the bronze medal only. He arrived in this fight on Bratan Zenow, but against whom he lost this time and therefore had to be satisfied with the medal -less 4th place. Olympic champion Vincenzo Maenza.

After the 1988 Olympics Magyatdin Allachwerdijew was in any international championship more at the start. About his future is not known.

International success

Note: all contests in Greco -Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, paper weight, then to 48 kg body weight

Swell

• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
• Journal The Ringer