Nelson Davidyan

Nelson Dawidjan (Armenian Նելսոն Դավիդյան; born April 6, 1950 in Tschartar, Rajon Martuni, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic ) is a former Soviet wrestler. He was the silver medalist at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal as well as world and European champions in wrestling Greco-Roman style in the spring and light weight.

Career

Nelson Dawidjan comes from Nagorno-Karabakh. There he began his four- year younger brother Oleg with the rings. Both were very talented and celebrated at the regional level soon notable successes in the Greco- Roman style. They were then delegates to the sports club Dynamo Kiev. There I. Kondratzky was her coach. For Dynamo Kiev enjoyed Nelson Dawidjan the then customary for a top athlete in the Soviet Union concessions could concentrate fully on the rings and studied alongside sport. Already at the age of 19 he had reached the top class in the Soviet bantamweight and arrived in 1970 at the European Championships in Berlin on his international debut. In Berlin, he came to two wins and a draw, but then succumbed unexpectedly Jürgen Penquitt from the GDR, so different from and finished only unsatisfactory for him 6th place.

It was therefore initially not used at senior level by the Soviet Union in international championships. At the Junior World Championship 1971 in Tokyo but he was at the start and took the class to 65 kg body weight behind Konstantin Traykow from Bulgaria 2nd place.

In some statistics Dawidjan Nelson is listed as Junior European Champion in 1972 and even as a junior world champion in 1973. However, this is both wrong. European Junior Champion in 1972 in the class up to 65 kg body weight was his brother Oleg and Junior World Championships 1973 were not held. In addition, 1971 was his last junior year. An international championships at junior level he had, born in 1950, 1972 and 1973 so they can no longer participate because he had exceeded the age limit of 21 years.

In 1973, the international abstinence from Nelson was then terminated and he was in Helsinki Europe featherweight champion. He stood there in very good form, defeating the dangerous Kazimierz Lipień from Poland and indeed defeated by Hungary László Réczi, but his title win could not prevent.

A year later, Nelson had represented the injured lightweight Shamil Chissamutdinow short at the World Championships in Katowice. He did it with flying colors and was with six wins world champion at lightweight. Among the defeated wrestlers from him there were such rounder as Lars -Erik Skjold from Sweden, Heinz -Helmut Wehling from the GDR and Andrzej Supron from Poland.

Also in 1975 Nelson was world champion. But this time in his ancestral weight class, the featherweight. He defeated among others, thereby László Réczi, Ion Păun from Romania and again Kazimierz Lipień.

Therefore, Nelson sailed as the clear favorite to the 1976 Olympic Games to Montreal. Initially seemed to him all too smooth. He celebrated inter alia victories over Stylianos Migiakis from Greece and Kazimirz Lipień, but was defeated then, as with the European Championship 1973, against the Hungarian László Réczi and helped so Kazimierz Lipień, in turn defeated Réczi, for the gold medal. For Nelson Dawidjan was "only" the silver medal.

1977 Nelson defeated at the European Championships in Bursa which this year ends located in top form Romanians Ion Păun and took 2nd place in the featherweight. At the World Championships the same year in Gothenburg, he was defeated by Kazimierz Lipień and László Réczi and finished 4th. 1978 and 1979 came to Nelson no stakes in international championships. The national competition was extremely strong. Especially Boris Kramarenko behind which he had occupied the second place in the featherweight at the Soviet Championship in 1978, he was preferred by Soviet sports officials.

It was only in 1980, Nelson was sent at the European Championships in Prievidza again Featherweight back to the start. There he was, although he again defeated by Ion Păun, for the second time European champions. At the Olympic Games in Moscow but Boris Kramarenko was still used, but not up to expectations by winning the bronze medal.

Nelson Dawidjan then ended his international career wrestler and became a coach in Kiev.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, GR = Greco-Roman style, Ba = bantamweight, featherweight = Fe, Le = Lightweight, then until 57 kg, 52 kg and 67 kg body weight)

Swell

• Various editions of the journals " Athletics " from the years 1969 to 1975 and " The Ringer " from the years 1976 to 1980
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976