Natig Eyvazov

Natig Aiwasow ( born November 2, 1970) is a former Soviet and Azerbaijani wrestlers. In 1993 he was European champion and 1994 runner-up world champion in Greco-Roman flyweight.

Career

Natig Aiwasow began as a teenager in the former Soviet Union with the rings. About this time, little is known, only so much that he concentrated on the Greco-Roman style and with a size of 1.64 meters in the paper weight, the lightest weight class, which then had their weight limit at 48 kg body weight, rank. In 1990 he competed for the Soviet Union at the European Junior Championships and finished in the paper weight behind Iliuţă Dăscălescu from Romania and Francesco Costantino from Italy 3rd place.

In the years of upheaval in the Soviet Union, 1991 and 1992, he was with no international championships at the start. In 1992, he decided to accept the Azerbaijani nationality and continue to compete for Azerbaijan. He became a member of the sports club Satamoshno Baku and trained there by Senaga Alaskarow and agate Aliyev. Its economic base he found in the Azerbaijani army.

Immediately on his very first start for Azerbaijan in an international championship, the European Championships in 1993 in Istanbul, he won the title of European champion at flyweight. He defeated it in the final Andrij Kalaschnykow from Ukraine. He has been doing loudly cheered by the Turkish audience because of its ethnic Azerbaijanis as close to the Turks. At the 1993 World Championships in Stockholm, he missed the 4th place just a medal. He was defeated in this battle for the bronze medal against Alfred Ter - Mkrtchyan from Germany on points.

After a weak showing at the European Championships in 1994 in Athens, he won there in the flyweight only the 13th place, he celebrated at the World Cup 1994 in Tampere again a great success. He fought in Tampere up in the finals before, but this was defeated in turn against Alfred Ter - Mkrtchyan and thus became vice - world champion.

In the years 1995 to 1997, Natig Aiwasow could not place in the medals at the international championship, but finished with a 5th place at the European Championships in 1995 in Besançon and a 6th place finish at the European Championships in Budapest and another 6th place at the European Championship in Finland Kouvola good places. The jump to the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, he missed.

At the European Championships 1998 in Minsk Natig Aiwasow defeated the German starter Oleg Kucherenko in the semifinals just on points (3:2 techn. Dots), but lost in the final against Boris Ambartsumow from Russia on points ( 0:3 techn. Dots). He was Vice-European Champion, winning medal after three years without a medal again. In 1999, he won again a medal at the European Championship. In Sofia he defeated thereby, inter alia, Alfred Ter - Mkrtchyan on points (3:1 techn. Dots), defeated in the semi-final against Dariusz Jabłoński from Poland, and defeated in the battle for the European Championship bronze medal Milew Simeon from Bulgaria after a hard fight just 3-2 techn. Points. In the 1999 World Cup in Athens, he scored high point victories over Nepes Gukulow from Turkmenistan ( 11:0 ) and Robert Sollie from Norway ( 10-0 ), losing to Petr Svehla from the Czech Republic (1:3 techn. Dots) but threw it at the third lap of the race. He therefore finished only 10th place.

In 2000 it succeeded Natig Aiwasow to qualify for the Olympic Games in Sydney. After a victory over Jotham Pellew from New Zealand where he was defeated in the second round against Lazaro Rivas Scull from Cuba on points ( 1:6 techn. Dots). In accordance with the former Regulations he could win only the 7th place with a points victory over former World Champion Ercan Yildiz from Turkey (3:0 techn. Dots) after that.

Then Natig Aiwasow was active until 2004. Qualifying for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens but he did not make it. A 6th place at the European Championships in 2001 in Istanbul and a 6th place finish at the 2002 European Championships in Seinäjoki were the best placements, which he reached in these years.

International success

Note: all contests in Greco -Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, paper weight, up to 1996 kg to 48 kg, abolished thereafter, Flyweight, and 1996 -52 kg, 1997-2001 bis 54 kg, then abolished, bantamweight, since 2002 up to 55 kg, Featherweight, since 2002 up to 60 kg body weight

Swell

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