Nick Matuhin

Nick Matuhin ( born April 5, 1990 in Moscow, Soviet Union ) is a German wrestler.

Career

Nick Matuhin came in the early 1990s with his parents to Germany and was naturalized there. Encouraged by a friend, he began in 2001 in Luckenwalde with the rings. From 2002 he attended the Friedrich -Ludwig -Jahn- secondary school in Luckenwalde, a high school with sports emphasis. As a member of the 1st Luckenwalder SC he is trained by Heiko Röll and at the high school by Olaf Bock and Michael Kleinschmidt. In the junior national team and later in the national team Alexander Leipold was added as a coach. Nick Matuhin trained as a fire chief in the fire department. He brings to the rings in the heavyweight division with excellent physical conditions. At a size of 1.98 meters, it weighs about 120 kg. He wrestles exclusively in free style.

After he had made ​​in the years 2005 to 2009, a number of successes, especially at junior level, he was injured in mid-2009 to the Preparatory Training for the Junior World Cup hard on the shoulder. This injury made ​​a surgery at the Charite in Berlin required. After that he played in the Medical Park in Berlin successful rehabilitation. However, the first fights he could deny again only in the Bundesliga 2010/11 season for his club.

As a junior, won Nick Matuhin between 2005 and 2009 German Championship titles in the heavyweight division in all age ranges. His international career began at the Junior European Championship ( Cadets ) in Istanbul in 2005, where he was 15 years old one of the youngest participants in the weight class and finished 5th to 100 kg body weight. In 2007 he won his first medal at the European Junior Championship ( Cadets ) in Warsaw. He took the 2nd place there, where he lost the final against Tornike Chideschweli from Georgia. In the same year he arrived at the Junior World Championship ( Juniors) in Beijing in focusing on the 5th Place. He occupied the same seat at the European Junior Championship ( Juniors) 2008 in Kosice, while he was at the Junior World Championships 2008 in Istanbul only on the 10th Place.

In 2009, he finally won a bronze medal at the European Junior Championship ( Juniors) in Tbilisi. In the battle for the medal he came to a clear points victory over the Turks Yalcin Sozen.

2009 Nick Matuhin was also the first time German champion in the seniors before Jens Brosowski from Zella -Mehlis. He repeated this success in 2011, where he won in 1888, followed by Stefan Kehrer from the ASV Mainz.

At the European Championship 2011 in Dortmund, he came to victories over Arkadiusz Kordus, Poland and Alexander Romanov, Moldova, while each was defeated by Fatih Cakiroglu, Turkey and in the fight for the bronze medal against Daniel Ligeti from Hungary just after points. He finished in 5th place. Especially in the last two fights went this negative effect, that he had no combat experience due to his lengthy injury in 2010. At the World Championships 2011 in Istanbul, he was defeated by Alexei Schemarow from Belarus and Cakiroglu Fatih from Turkey respectively on points. However, he had pronounced this Lospech because Schemarow became world champion and Cakiroglu was the European champion of 2011.

In the month of March 2012 Nick Matuhin denied the European Championships in Belgrade. After he had in the second fight against the eventual champions Taha Akgul, Turkey, lost, he struggled with wins over Predrag Budic, Serbia and Bachtijar Akhmedov, Russia ( by default) in the battle for a European Championship bronze medal. But this battle he lost after winning the first round even against Igor Dschatko from Belarus and came thus to 5th place. At the Olympic Games in London he lost to Artur Taimasow, Uzbekistan and Komeil Ghasemi from Iran and came there on the 17th Place.

At the European Championships in 2013 in Tbilisi Nick Matuhin was a very good idea. He defeated there Galstjan Andranik, Armenia, then lost to Alen Sasajew from Ukraine, defeated Alexander Romanov, Moldova, but lost the battle for the bronze medal against Geno Petriaschwili from Georgia and took a good 5th place.

International success

German Championships

(seniors only )

Notes

  • All competitions in free style
  • WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =
  • Heavyweight, weight category up to 120 kg body weight

Swell

  • Journal The Ringer
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig
  • Site of the first Luckenwalder SC
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