Moon Eui-jae

Moon Eui- jae ( born February 10, 1975 in Daejeon, South Korea) is a South Korean wrestler. He won a silver medal each in free style in the welter - and middleweight at the 2000 Olympic Games and 2004.

Career

Moon Eui- jae began as a teenager in 1988 with the rings. He focused fully on the free style developed quickly and was founded in 1993 by South Korean junior champion. As in South Korea, he was sponsored throughout his career by the industrial companies Samsung Corporation Seoul usual. His coach was the former world-class wrestler Park Jung -soon.

His first try at a major international Ringer's event was in 1994 at the Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg. As an internationally inexperienced wrestler, he came in free style welterweight on the 7th Place. A year later he competed in the Junior World Championship ( espoir = age group to age 20 ) in Tehran. He fought there until the final and was defeated by the Russians in this Buwaisar Saitijew. In these exceptional wrestler he met in his career that was to last until 2004, still common. But he could never defeat him.

1997 Moon won for the first time at the Asian Championship welterweight before the Mongols Munkhbayar Tumenulza and the Uzbeks Sagid Katinowassow. In the same year he finished 2nd in the East Asian Games in Busan in the welterweight division. He had to here the Kazakhs Magomed Kuruglijew beaten. For its first participation in a World Cup, 1997 in Krasnoyarsk, get him four victories. After defeats against Buwaisar Saitijew and Kamil Kacaoglu, Turkey, he finally reached the 5th place.

1998 Moon Eui- jae was vice-champion in Tehran for the first time. On the way to the final, where he again Buwaisar Saitijew subject, he defeated amongst other things also the German top wrestler Alexander Leipold. Not quite as good it was for him at the World Championship in 1999 in Ankara. After three victories, he was defeated there the Americans Joe E. Williams and arrived on the 6th Place.

At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 to Moon Eui- jae won with four wins in the welterweight bronze medal. In the semifinals of these games he lost it against Alexander Leipold, the Olympic champion, was on points. After the games, Leipold was disqualified for doping. Therefore, Moon moved to a place and received the silver medal awarded.

In 2001, Moon in Sofia welterweight was again runner-up world champion. It was again Buwaisar Saitijew, who defeated him in the final. In 2002 he moved to the next higher weight class, the middleweight division. He won in this weight class at the Asian Games in Busan, the tournament middleweight against Magomed Kuruglijew and Shamil Aliev from Tajikistan. At the World Cup this year, he was not at the start.

At the World Championship 2003 in New York he met after two victorious battles in his third fight on the Russians Saschid Saschidow, whom he defeated on points. With this defeat, he left and came only on the 11th Place. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, he was able to successfully take revenge on Saschid Saschidow, he defeated him on points. In addition, he also won over yet so strong wrestler like Miroslaw Gotschew from Bulgaria, Magomed Ibragimov from Macedonia and Taras Danko from Turkey. He stood by these victories in the final against the Americans Cael Sanderson, he lost to the almost on points. He thus won his second Olympic silver medal.

After Athens Monn Eui- jae finished his career as a wrestler. Today he works as a wrestler trainer at Samsung Corporation.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, We = welterweight, then to 74 bzw.76 kg body weight, Mi = middleweight, then to 84 kg body weight)

  • 2000, Silver Medal, OS in Sydney, F, We, with wins over Alik Musaev, Ukraine, Reinhold Ozoline, Australia, Marcin Jurecki, Poland and Adem Bereket, Turkey and a defeat against Alexander Leipold; Leipold was disqualified after the Games because of doping. Thus, Moon moved behind the American Brandon Slay on the silver space;
  • 2001, 1st Place, East Asian Games in Osaka, F, We, before Gennadi Lalijew, Kazakhstan and Kunihiko Obata, Japan;
  • 2002, 2nd place, World Cup in Sofia, F, Mi, with victories over Felix Polianidis, Greece, Phan Thanh Quyer, Vietnam, Arpad Knight & Radion Kertanti and a defeat against Buwaisar Saitijew;
  • 2002nd 2nd place, World Cup in Spokane, USA, F, Mi, behind Chadschimurad Gazalow, Russia & Full hard against Lee, USA & Nicholas Ugoalah, Canada;
  • 2002, 1st Place, Asian Games in Busan, F, Mi, before Magomed Kuruglijew and Shamil Aliyev, Tajikistan;
  • 2003 11th Place, WM in New York City, F, Mi, with wins over Anthony Fasugla, Italy & Matar Sene, Senegal and a defeat against Saschid Saschidow, Russia;
  • 2003, 1st Place, Asia Cup in Almaty, F, Mi, before Narantsetseg Burembataar, Mongolia, Vadim Tokayev, Kazakhstan and Magomed Kuruglijew;
  • 2004, 4th place, Olympic Qualif. tournament in Bratislava, F, Mi, behind Eldar Assanow, Ukraine, Hidekazu Yokoyama Japan and Feridun Ghanbaripizar, Iran;
  • 2004, 2nd place, Asian Championships in Tehran, F, Mi, behind Feridun Ghanbaripizar and before Magomed Kuruglijew and Hassan Fadil, Iraq;
  • 2004, Silver Medal, OS in Athens, F, Mi, with wins over Magomed Ibragimov, Macedonia, Miroslaw Gotschew, Bulgaria, Taras Danko, Ukraine & Saschid Saschidow and a defeat against Cael Sanderson, USA

Swell

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

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  • Profile of Moon Eui- jae at the Institute for Applied Training Science
  • Moon defeated Saschid Saschidow at the 2004 Olympic Games
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