Sergey Smal

Sergei Nikolaevich Smal (Russian: Сергей Николаевич Смаль, Belarusian Сяргей Смаль / Syarhey Smal; born September 30, 1968) is a former Belarusian wrestler who competed for the Soviet Union, the CIS and Belarus. He won at the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992 and a silver medal in 1991 in Varna world champion in free style bantamweight.

Career

The blond Belarusian Sergei Smal began in 1978 with the rings. He competed for Dynamo Gomel and was trained by Stanislaw Gorla and Alexander Nikolayevich SmaI. Early in his career, he competed for the Soviet Union. After the fall of the same for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and from 1993 for Belarus. He wrestled only in free style and began his international career in the bantamweight and moved in 1994 to the spring weight.

In 1990 he sat in the Soviet Union to the top of Bantamgewichtler in free style and was nominated for the World Championships in Tokyo. He finished there the 3rd place, after he had lost in his pool final against the Cubans Puerto Alejandro Diaz. The fight for the third place he won against Ahmet Ak from Turkey.

In 1991, he also launched at the World Championships in Varna again for the Soviet Union. It was in this year, probably at the height of its power and was in Varna with four wins world champion bantamweight. However, Knapp was his victory in the finals over the Mongols Tsogtbayar Tserenbaatar (7:6 techn. Dots).

At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona Sergei Smal launched for the CIS. In bantamweight he fought it to the finals before, in which he met his Endkampfgegner of the 1990 World Cup Puerto Alejandro Diaz. This proved to be stronger than he was in the Olympic final and finished with a points victory Olympic champion. Sergei Smal thus won the silver medal.

Even in the years 1993 and 1994 and 1995 Sergei Smal was very successful when he succeeded no title. He was in Istanbul European vice-champion in the bantamweight, where he in the final against the Turks Remzi Musaoglu me techn 2:5 1993. Points subject. In 1994 he was back in Istanbul, Vice World Champion. He started at featherweight. In the final, he lost it against Magomed Azizow from Russia. At this event, he came in a pool fight to a tight 8-6 points victory over the Goldbacherstrasse Jürgen disc. In 1995, Sergei Smal at the European Championships in Budapest in the featherweight a bronze medal. He was defeated here in the finale of his pools against Magomed Azizow and had thus the only option for 3rd place to fight. This fight he won against Martin Müller from Switzerland. At the 1995 World Championships in Atlanta Sergei Smal remained with the 7th place without a medal.

In 1996, Sergei Smal at the European Championships in Budapest Featherweight back to the 3rd place. He won here in the struggle for these Medial over Elbrus Tedejew, a starting for Ukraine Ossetians, who still should become one of the most successful freestyle wrestler in the world at featherweight to. At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, he won among others but about Jürgen disc on points (8:1), was defeated by American Brands Thomas and the Japanese Takahira Wada and thus finished only 11th place.

In the following years until 2001, then changed very good results from having mediocre results. In 1997, he came, for example, at the World Championships in Krasnoyarsk to 4th place, where he was defeated by the Americans Cary Kolat J. and Magomed Azizow, but again Elbrus Tedejew defeated. In 1998 he was again in Bratislava Vice-European Champion after a defeat in the final against the Bulgarian exceptional talent and also in Germany well known Serafim Barzakow. Counter Barzakow and the South Korean Jang Jae -sung defeated Sergei Smal at the World Cup in 1998 in Tehran and got away with it only on the 9th Place. A medal win succeeded once again at the 2000 European Championships in Budapest. He had to admit defeat to the Russians Murat Umachanow on points (1:5).

With a total of nine won medals at Olympic Games, World Championships & Europe Sergei Smal was in his weight classes one of the most successful wrestlers of the 1990s and the early 2000s. In 2002 he retired from international competition scene. He now works as a trainer in Belarus. After his resignation, he wrestled for several years for the German club TSV Burgebrach, where family ties existed in the Bavarian Oberliga.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = free style, Fl = flyweight, bantamweight = Ba, Fe = featherweight, then 52 kg, 57 kg, 62/63 kg body weight)

  • 2000, 3rd place, Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Tokyo, F, Fe, behind David Pogosjan, Georgia and Kazuyuki Miyata, Japan, before Stefan Fernyak, Slovakia and Nasir Lal, Canada;
  • 2000 2nd place European Championships in Budapest, F, Fe, with wins over Thomas Kaczanowicz, Germany, Nicoaos Djouras, Greece, Arshak Hayrapetjan, Armenia and Mehmet Yozgat, Turkey and a defeat against Murat Umachanow, Russia;
  • 2001 11th Place, EM in Dudapest, F, Fe, with a win over Kaleli Levent, Turkey and a defeat against Ruslan Bodisteanu, Romania

Swell

  • Journal The wrestler, numbers: 10/1990, 11/ 1991 9/1992, 4/1993, 5 /1993 9/1993, 5/ 1994 9/1994, 5 /1995 6/1995, 9 /1995
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig

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Profile of Sergei Smal at the Institute for Applied Training Science

  • White Russian
  • Ringer (Soviet Union)
  • Ringer ( Belarus )
  • World Champion ( Wrestling )
  • Olympian (CIS )
  • Olympian ( Belarus )
  • Born in 1968
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