Mélonin Noumonvi

Mélonin Noumonvi ( born October 10, 1982 in Paris ) is a French wrestler. He became in 2009 vice-champion in Greco-Roman wrestling in the middleweight division.

Career

Called Mélonin Noumonvi " Mélo ", is the son of African immigrants to France. He already began in 1989 at the age of 7 years with the rings and is owned by the wrestler Club at Bagnolet in Paris. During his ongoing since 1998 her international career and he is coached by Didier Duceux, Franck Abrial, Jean -Marc Carday and Patrice Mourier. He wrestles exclusively in the Greco-Roman style and weighs as an adult at a size of 1.85 meters, about 90 kg, trained for the competitions in the middleweight ( up to 84 kg body weight ) from. He is also known in Germany because he wrestles for the SV Germania Weingarten in the Bundesliga.

Mélonin Noumonvi took for the first time in 1998 at an international championship, the Junior World Championship of Cadets in Pretoria, in part. He finished there in the weight category to 76 kg body weight the 4th Place. Fourth places he also reached at the Junior World Championship 2001 in Tashkent and at the Junior European Championships in 2002 in Subotica, in each case at middleweight.

In 2002 he also started the first time at the European Championship. In Seinäjoki / Finland he came here in the middleweight division with a win over Filip Soukop, the Czech Republic and one defeat against Sandor Istvan Bardosi from Hungary to 14th place. By 2005 it was not possible Mélonin Noumonvi to win a medal at the international championships. The best result that he achieved in those years, was the ninth place finish at the 2003 World Cup in Creteil.

2006 won Mélonin Noumonvi at the European Championships in Moscow an EM bronze medal in the middleweight division. That was his first medal at an international championship in the seniors. He won it by a victory in the battle for 3rd place on Bernhard Mayr, Germany. In the 2006 World Cup in Guangzhou / China, he retired after a victory over Alexander Daragan from the Ukraine after a defeat against the Olympic champion Alexei Mishin from Russia in 2004 and came by it only to 19th place.

In 2007 he won at the European Championships in Sofia again a bronze medal. He won there over Pawel Daniel Burla from Romania, Vitaly Lischtschinksi, Ukraine, Goran Bojanic, Serbia and Artur Michalkiewicz, Poland and lost again against Alexei Mishin. At the 2007 World Championships in Baku, he retired, however, after a victory over Dante Harebaschwili, Greece out because of a loss to Yunior Estrada Falcon from Cuba after the second round, landing once again on the 19th Place.

At the 2008 European Championships in Tampere Mélonin Noumonvi retired after two wins from a defeat against the multiple world champion Ara Abrahamian of Sweden after the third round and came by it only to 10th place. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, for which he had qualified by a win in the Qualifying Tournament in Rome, but then he made a sensation. He lost his first fight there against the Italians Andrea Minguzzi 0-2 rounds at 2-2 points, Minguzzi each of the two rounds won only by the last championship. At that time nobody knew Minuzzi Olympic champion would be. Owe a good part of had Minguzzi this Olympic victory Mélonin Noumonvi, because this defeated in his next fight the Olympic champion Alexei Mishin 2-1 rounds and 2:5 technical points and threw this so out of the race. He won it two laps each with 1-0 points and lost a round with 0:5 points. After this fight prevented Ara Abrahamian, the next opponent of Mélonin Noumonvi whose medal win because he beat this safe with 2-0 rounds and 4-0 points. Mélonin Noumonvi thus came to 5th place.

In 2009, he won the European Championship in Vilnius with wins over Pedro Garcia Yacinto Perez from Spain and Denis Forow from Armenia and a somewhat surprising defeat against Shalva Gabaradse from Azerbaijan the 7th Place. He then won at the 2009 World Championships in Herning / Denmark the biggest success of his career when he was after beating Yerbol Raimbekow, Kazakhstan, Bolat Abdullayev, Ukraine, Badri Chasaija, Georgia and Habibollah Akhlagi, Iran in the final of that tournament, in he against the experienced Nazmi Avluca from Turkey had no chance in the defeat 0-2 rounds at 0:4 points, however. But he was, after all runners-up.

At the European Championships 2010 in Baku Mélonin Noumonvi won with Jan Fischer from Germany again a bronze medal, which he won with a victory over Nenad Zugaj from Croatia. Previously, he had lost again against Nazmi Avluca.

International success

French Championships

Mélonin Noumonvi was 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2008 French champion at middleweight

• All competitions in the Greco-Roman style,
• OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championships, EM = European Championships,
• BW = body weight,
• Middleweight, to 2002 kg and 85 kg, since 2003-84 kg body weight