Pavel Pinigin

Pavel Pavlovich Pinigin (Russian Павел Павлович Пинигин; born March 12, 1953 in Dirin, Rajon Tschuraptscha, Yakut ASSR ) is a former Soviet wrestler. In 1976 he was Olympic champion in free style at lightweight.

Career

Pawel Pinigin, a Yakut, began as a child with the rings, which was very popular in Yakutia. From 1966, he attended a school in the settlement Ringer Tschuraptscha, which had been founded by the residents in the vicinity Russian teacher Dmitri Petrovich Korkin. The training took place initially under very simple conditions. Later Pinigin was discovered by talent scouts and delegated to the Central Sports Club of the Army in Kiev ( CSKA Minsk). There he developed at the coaches Gorkin and Dimitri Georgi Barakow a world-class wrestler in free style. In the junior level, he entered not particularly apparent. In 1975 he won at great freestyle tournament in Tbilisi in lightweight front of the whole Soviet and parts of the international elite.

Pawel Pinigin was then used at the European Championship 1975 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, however welterweight. As a largely unknown wrestler he celebrated there a total of seven wins, defeating, among others the world-class athletes in January Karlsson from Sweden, Fred Hempel from the GDR, Dan Karabín from Czechoslovakia and Adolf Seger from the FRG. Winning the European Championship title was, therefore, not to take him. Also at the World Championships the same year in Minsk access Pawel Pinigin seven victories in a row, but this time in the lightweight, his ancestral weight class. He defeated among others there Ismail Juszeinow from Bulgaria, Iedendambyn Natsagdorj from Mongolia and Lloyd Keaser from the United States.

After winning this world title Pawel Pinigin was at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal as a big favorite. He was in Montreal with five wins Olympic champions, but this victory owed ​​the American Lloyd Keaser, who defeated the Japanese Yasaburo Sugawara, who had previously won a sensational against Pawel Pinigin.

The luck of had Pawel Pinigin at the World Cup 1977 in Lausanne. He won six fights there though, but was disqualified in the fight against Zevegin Oydow from Mongolia together with this because passivity. While Oydow therefore had to retire prematurely Pinigin remained despite the 4 unsuccessful points with which he was charged with disqualification from the competition and was a victory in the final over Saban Sejdi from Yugoslavia for the second time world champion.

This world champion title in the lightweight defended Pawel Pinigin successful at the 1978 World Cup in Mexico City. He won all six fights there, he had to deny. He won it, inter alia, against the German master Gerhard saddle, against James Humphrey from the United States and against Ivan Jankow from Bulgaria.

Pawel Pinigin had to experience in 1978 and 1979 in the Soviet Union, that he is not unbeatable. In the USSR championship in 1978, he lost namely at lightweight against Yusupov and finished only 2nd place and also at the Peoples Spartakiade 1979, he had been defeated, this time by Mikhail Tscharatschura.

Nevertheless retract his second Olympic gold medal in the welterweight Pawel Pinigin received from the Soviet Wrestling Federation at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow the chance. But it did not happen because he was initially disqualified together in the fight against the Mongols Jamtsyng Davaajan with this because of passivity and then defeated even the Bulgarians Valentin Rajtschew, which he finished only 4th place and remained without a medal.

Then Pawel Pinigin started at no more international championships. He now works as a trainer in Kiev and held there, often together with Sergei Beloglasow, Ringer seminars for beginners and advanced.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = free style, Le = Lightweight, We = welterweight, then up to 68kg u.74 kg body weight)

Swell

• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976, pages W -131, E -108 and O -105
• Journal The wrestler, numbers: 11/ 1977, pp. 6/7, 9 /1978, page 9 and 8/1980, pages 8/9
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig