Namig Abdullayev

Yadulla Namig Abdullayev ( born January 4, 1971 in Baku, Soviet Union ) is a former Azerbaijani wrestlers. It was 2000 Olympic champion in the flyweight in free style.

Career

Namig Abdullayev began as a teenager in 1983 in his hometown of Baku with the rings. He focused on the free style. His first coach was his brother Arif Abdullaev. At 18, he did his military service and then stepped into the police. In Soviet times, he was a member of Dynamo Baku, followed by Neftchi Baku petroleum. There Vahid Mamedov was his coach. His first international start, he played in 1991 nor for the Soviet Union. In 1993 he competed for Azerbaijan, which provided independent teams after the collapse of the Soviet Union in international championships. Namig Abdullayev has in the police to the rank of lieutenant colonel, but also has a teaching diploma in sports. For all international championships in which he participated, he wrestled free style, to 2001, flyweight, bantamweight thereafter.

His first start in an international championship was at the Junior World Championship ( espoir ). He took it behind Kim Il of North Korea, and Park Young -man, South Korea 3rd place. At the European Championships 1994, was the first launch of Namig Abdullayev Azerbaijan in an international championship. In Rome, he shone straight away and was before Ivan Zonow from Bulgaria and Sergei Sambalow from Russia European champions. At the World Championships in 1994 in Istanbul, he fought his way up to the final, where he met Valentin Yordanov of Bulgaria, who had not participated in the European Championship 1994. He lost to Yordanov just after points and thus became vice - world champion.

In 1995 Namig Abdullayev in Fribourg / Switzerland won the 1994 European title defense. He defeated there Tschetschenol Mongusch from Russia, Christophe Bahuet from France, Pascal Jungo of Switzerland, Ivan Zonow and Metin Topaktas from Turkey. In the inaugural World Military Games in Rome, where 91 nations took part, he came flyweight behind the North Koreans Jin Ju -dong to 2nd place. But at the World Cup this year in Atlanta, he missed with a 4th place behind Valentin Yordanov, Gholamreza Mohammadi, Iran and Zeke Jones, United States just a medal.

In 1996, he lost at the European Championships in Budapest in the semifinals against the Ukrainian Wladimir Togusow with 1:3 points, close on points. He finished so the 3rd place behind Togusow and Ivan Zonow. At the Olympic Games this year in Atlanta, he was in excellent shape. He won in his first four fights, where he could even shoulders after 2:16 minutes in the semifinals Gholamreza Mohammadi. In the final he met Valentin Yordanov, the seven-time world champion, who was still not been any Olympic victory. Namig Abdullayev gave Yordanov a balanced fight, which stood at the end of the five minute period of struggle 3:3. In the subsequent extension it came to a fight scene in which both wrestlers came close to a championship. But got to the annoyance of Namig Abdullayev only Valentin Yordanov ones a rating so that it won the fight 4-3 points. A subsequent protest of his team lead was dismissed. Yordanov was still Olympic champion and Namig Abdullayev was awarded the silver medal.

At the European Championships 1997 in Warsaw Namig Abdullayev was into the final against the Ukrainian Alexander Sacharjuk. Within the fight time 8 minutes none of the wrestlers was able to achieve a score, so that the judges had to make a decision. It ruled again against Abdullayev, who was the more active wrestler actually according to many experts. He had to settle with the European vice-champion title with it. At the World Championships this year in Krasnoyarsk, he lost in the third fight against Gholamreza Mohammadi, was eliminated and therefore only reached the 8th Place.

At the European Championships 1998 in Budapest Namig Abdullayev was inter alia to a victory over Ivan Zonow, but he lost again against Alexander Sacharjuk and to also against Amiran Kartanow from Greece and therefore only came on the 10th Place. At the World Championships this year in Tehran but he was again successful. He came there to three wins, but lost a bit surprising in the final against the Americans Samuel Henson with 1:3 points and finished second.

1999 was a crisis year for Namig Abdullayev. He arrived at the European Championships in Minsk after a loss to poor Simonyan of Armenia only to a victory over Leonid Tschutschunow from Russia, but this was only enough for 13th place. Even worse he fared at the World Championships in Ankara. He lost there against grumbling Mamirow from Kazakhstan and against Kim Woo- yong of South Korea and landed thus relegated to 28th place. The bad result of this placement was that he had does not qualify for participation in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. He therefore had to deny at the beginning of 2000, three heavy qualifying tournaments for these games in Minsk, Leipzig and Tokyo. In Leipzig, and in Tokyo, he took 2nd place in each case, which earned him the eligibility for Sydney. Obviously, these heavy Tournaments Namig Abdullayev had brought into the form that he himself to victories over Jin Ju -dong, Martin Liddle, New Zealand, Amiran Kartanow and Samuel Henson ( 4-3 points) came at the 2000 Olympic Games and Olympic champion he was thereby.

In 2001, he paused. In 2002, he was but again at the World Championships, in which was the first time a new weight class division, bantamweight at the start. He reached there with four wins again the final, defeated in this but the Cubans Rene Montero with 1:4 points and became vice - world champion. In 2003, he won his last title. He was born in Riga European champion bantamweight, and defeated it in the semifinals the new Russian star Mawlet Batirow 3-2 points. In the final, he won over Amiran Kartanow 3-1 points. At the World Championship 2003 in New York, he lost against Stephen Abas from the United States and against Mawlet Batirow what had his early elimination result.

In 2004, Namig Abdullayev for the third time in the Olympic Games in part. In Athens it but no longer been successful, because he lost his first fight there against the Japanese Chikara Tanabe and came on the 14th Place.

At the European Championships in Moscow in 2006 Namig Abdullayev won but once again a medal. He stood in the finals against his nemesis Alexander Sacharuk and lost against this on points. But he was there at the age of 35 years, after all, once Vice-European Champion. At the 2007 World Championships in Baku home then no longer, he managed once again to win a medal. After a victory over Shane Parker from Australia he lost there against Yang Kyong -il of North Korea and only came on the 15th Place.

International success

Notes

All competitions in free style
OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =
Fly face, until 1996 -52 kg from 1997 to 2001-54 kg bantamweight, since 2002 up to 55 kg body weight

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