Serhat Balcı
Serhat Balcı ( born March 15, 1982 in Istanbul) is a Turkish wrestler, Olympian and multiple medalist at the European Championships in free style.
Career
Serhat Balcı began as a teenager in 1994 with the rings. He concentrated entirely on the free style. He is a member of the sports club Amasya Sekerspor and is trained by Cahit Ahiskalioglu and Enis Cakiroglu. The 1.78 meter tall athlete 's physical education teacher.
The international career of Serhat Balcı started at the age of 16, when he was in Manchester Junior World Champion in the age group " Cadets ", di until the age of 16, was. The following year he came in the same age group at the World Championships in Łódź on the 3rd place. In the next age group of junior he finished only 7th place at the Junior European Championship in 2000 in Nantes. At the conclusion of his junior time it was founded in 2002 in Tirana again Junior European champion at middleweight.
He wrestled as a junior already in weight classes to 83 kg or 85 kg body weight. This weight limit he held until 2008. Recently as 2009, he moved to the next higher weight class, the light heavyweight division, which has its weight limit at 96 kg body weight.
In the senior Serhat Balcı launched first time in 2002 at an international championship. He arrived at the European Championships in Baku at middleweight on the 7th Place. He was inducted into this year at the World Championships in Tehran, reached there but after a victory over Alexei Mastepanow from Belarus and a defeat against the Bulgarians Arkadi Tschopa only the 16th Place.
At the European Championships in 2009 in Riga, he had to settle for 9th place in the middleweight division. For the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, he could not qualify.
His first medal at an international championship he won at the 2005 European Championships in Varna. He triumphed over Thomas Bucheli from Switzerland, Nauru Temresow from Russia and David Bichinashvili from Germany, he and 6:3 techn. Could defeat points. In the final he defeated the Ukrainian Taras Danko on points. At the World Championships this year in Budapest, he won against Abdul Amajew from Uzbekistan, but dropped out after losing to Taras Danko and came on the 15th Place.
In 2006 he was employed at the World Championships in Guangzhou. He defeated there, the former world champion from Hungary Árpád Knight and Magomed Kuruglijew from Kazakhstan, but had to concede defeat Taras Danko, who succeeded a brief 2-0 points victory. He came therefore to the 11th place. In the Military World Championship 2006 in Baku, he reached the 2nd place behind Georgi Ketojew from Russia.
In 2007 he won at the European Championships in Sofia in the middleweight division with wins over Miroslaw Geschew from Bulgaria, Marc Buschle from Germany and Leri Ketischwili from Georgia, the brother of Georgi Ketojew, the bronze medal. The place in the final denied him Taras Danko. At the 2007 World Championships in Baku Serhat Balcı get three wins. But he lost to Yusup Abdussalomow from Tajikistan and in the fight for third place against Zaurbek Sochiew from Uzbekistan and got away with it on the 5th Place.
2008 Serhat Balcı wowohl remained at the European Championships in Tampere, as well as at the Olympic Games in Beijing without a medal. In Tampere he lost his second fight against the starting Azerbaijan Russians Nauru Temresow and came on the 8th Place and in Beijing he lost after two wins against Yusup Abdussalomow in the fight for the bronze medal against Taras Danko, which he finished in 5th place.
At the European Championships 2009 in Vilnius he started for the first time at light heavyweight in order to escape the constant detraining. Although he lost in the semifinals against Chetag Gasjumow from Azerbaijan, but won the battle for the European bronze medal over Nicolai Cerban from Moldova. At the 2009 World Championships in Herning / Denmark Serhat Balci failed in the semifinals again at Chetag Gasjumow. However, he still managed to fight with wins over Nicolai Cerban and Rouslan Scheikow from Belarus the World Cup bronze medal.
International success
Note: all the competitions in free style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Middleweight, up to 2001 kg and 85 kg, from 2002-84 kg body weight, light heavyweight to 96 kg body weight
Swell
- Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
- Journal The Ringer,
- Database of the U.S. Ringer Association,
- Website " www.guresdosyasi.com