Steeve Guénot

Steeve François Fabien Guénot ( born October 2, 1985 in Chalon -sur -Saône ) is a French wrestler. He was at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling in lightweight and won at the Olympic Games 2012 in London undim in the same weight class the same style a bronze medal

Career

Steeve Guénot comes from a Ringer family. His father was Guénot Christophe Ringer, is referees and club official, brother Christophe Guénot won at the Olympic Games in Beijing, a bronze medal in the welterweight division. His mother and his two sisters are the ring sporting a wink.

Steeve Guénot wrestling since 1990 and only in the Greco- Roman style. He is a member of the club US Metro Paris ( Union sportive metropolitaine des transports ). He is 1.72 m tall and weighs about 70 kg. The French national team wrestler he is a member since he was 17. His coach is former world champion Patrice Mourier. Professionally, he is an agent of the Securite GPSR in Seine- Saint- Denis, where he has all the freedom to daily training.

In 2001, Steeve Guénot was first French junior champion in the weight category to 58 kg body weight. In the French Veterans Championships he won the 2003 2nd place, 3rd place in 2005 and 2007, the 1st place, each at lightweight.

His debut on the international wrestling mat he gave at the Junior European Championships in 2004 in Murska Sobota at lightweight. He was there not very successful, because he lost his first fight against Tiziano Corriga from Italy and won the next round of Ismael Navarro Sanchez from Spain. These results were only enough for 17th place.

In 2005, Steeve Guénot already won but his first medal at an international championship wrestler, namely the European Junior Championships in Wroclaw. He came there behind Dimitri Pyschkow from Ukraine and Ionel Puşcaşu from Romania to 3rd place. In the same year he was already used in the Senior World Championships in Budapest. There, however, he had to pay dearly, because he lost his first fight against Ionut Panait from Romania and came to the final bill only on the 29th place in the lightweight.

His next assignment at an international championship was again only at the European Championships in 2007 in Sofia. There happened to him at lightweight not much better than at the World Championships in 2005, as he again lost his first fight against Sylvester Charzewski from Poland and ended up in 16th place. Then a major step forward as he did at the 2007 World Championships in Baku. He won there over Sunil Kumar from India, Darkhan Bayakmetow from Kazakhstan, the 2005 World Champion Nikolai Gergow from Bulgaria ( 6-1 technical points ) and Arman Adikjan from Armenia respectively on points. In the final he was Fərid Mansurov against Azerbaijan, he lost to the almost on points. The reward for his good performance was winning the vice-champion title.

A setback suffered Steeve Guénot at the 2008 European Championships in Tampere. He was defeated there in the first fight against the German champion Marcus Thaetner on points. Since Thaetner not reached the final, Steeve Guénot did not come into the repechage and placed only on the 20th Place.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing traveled Steeve Guénot in an excellent shape. He therefore defeated Alain Milián from Cuba, Tamás Lőrincz from Hungary, Mikhail Semenov from Belarus, Darkhan Bayakmetow from Kazakhstan and in the final Kanatbek Begaliew from Kyrgyzstan and was Olympic champion in the Lightweight, Greco-Roman style. He thus won the first Frenchman after 1936, when Emile Poilve in Berlin Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling in the middleweight division was again a gold medal in wrestling.

Steeve Guénot also continued to Beijing continued his career Ringer. But in 2009 he won the European Championship in Vilnius in lightweight only the 11th Place and in the World Championships in Herning / Denmark only the 15th Place. Much better he cut off at the International Championships of 2010. He takes back this year at the European Championships in Baku in lightweight with victories over Manuel Almeida, Portugal, France Stäbler, Germany and Sergei Krasilnikow, Ukraine, after a semi-final defeat against Ionut Panait, Romania, a European Championship bronze medal. At the World Championships in Moscow, he defeated Alexander Maksimovic of Serbia and Faruk Sahin from the United States, after he had lost his first fight against arms Vardanyan of Ukraine. The fight for a world championship bronze medal he lost conclusively against Wassif Arzimanov from Turkey.

2011, Steeve Guenot could place at the European Championship in Dortmund only on the 10th place and also at the World Championships in Istanbul, he was only on the 12th Place. But he managed to win straight away at the first continental Olympic qualification tournament in Sofia by a tournament win a starting place in April 2012. He won there in lightweight ago Edgaras Venckaitis, Lithuania, Emilian Todorov, Bulgaria and Vitaly Rakhimov, Azerbaijan. At the Olympic Summer Games 2012 in London he won with victories over Wuileixis Rivas Espinosa, Venezuela and Saeid Mourad Abdvali, Iran, losing to Kim Hyeon -woo, South Korea, the very scarce failed with 1:2 and 2:3 rounds points and a victory over Pedro Isaac Mulens Herrera, Cuba, a bronze medal.

He continued his career in 2013, but moved to the next higher weight class, the welterweight division. At the European Championships this year in Tbilisi, he won first over the Italians Ciro Russo, from He was defeated in his next fight against Jawor Jana Kiev, Bulgaria on points and thus retired. He arrived in Tbilisi on the 10th Place.

Guénot lives east of Paris in the town of Bagnolet. Since 2007 he is working with his brother Christophe in the context of a professional partnership program of the French Ministry of Health, Youth and Sports as a security guard at the state-owned Paris transport company RATP.

International success

• All competitions in Greco-Roman wrestling
• OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =
• Light weight, weight category up to 66 kg Weltgergewicht, to 74 kg body weight ( 31 December 2013 ); since 1 January 2014 a new weight class classification applies by the FILA Wrestling World Association