Tervel Dlagnev
Tervel Ivaylov Dlagnev ( born November 19, 1985 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is an American professional wrestler.
Career
Tervel Dlagnev is a native Bulgarian and came in 1989 with his parents to the United States. He attended in Arlington (Texas ) High School where he started in 2000 with the rings. Since 2007, he attended the University of Nebraska at Kearney ( Nebraska). He studied there molecular biology and is trained in wrestling by Mark Manning. Meanwhile naturalized in the United States, he lives in Cedar Falls ( Iowa) and a member of the Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club.
As a high- school wrestler Tervel Dlagnev was not very successful and finished in the championships of the State of Texas only once a third place. As a wrestler at the University of Nebraska, he improved by leaps and bounds and grew with about 120 kg body weight fully into the heavyweight division. He wrestles with the free style.
In 2007, he finished in the NCAA Division II Championships 1st place in the heavyweight division, which he secured in these Championships also in 2008. In the same year he finished 4th at the U.S. Championships of seniors behind Thomas Rowlands, Cole Konrad and Steve Mocco. In 2008 he won at the USA Championship with a third place behind Thomas Rowlands and Steve Mocco, but before Tolly Thompson, the first time a coin. He took this year also on the so-called Olympic Trials in part (Olympia excretion ). Came there but the Arrivierten Steve Mocco, Thomals Rowlands and Scott Steele only on the 4th Place.
In 2009, then his breakthrough came at the national level. First, he finished at the U.S. Championships behind Steve Mocco 2nd place and then he beat the same wrestler at the U.S. World Championship elimination and grabbing himself a ticket for the World Championships 2009.
In addition to these good results at national level Tervel Dlagnev also pointed to the international wrestling mat that there will also be more with him. In 2008 he was in Thessaloniki universities world champion before Riza Yildirim from Turkey and Atsushi Nakamura, Japan. In 2009, he won an international tournament in Kiev before the Georgians David Otiaschwili. When " Dan Kolev " tournament in Sofia, he reached behind Bodschidar Bojadschiew from Bulgaria, but before Bartolomiej Bartnicki from Poland 2nd place. And also the " Takhty " Cup in Tehran he could convince a third place behind the two Iranians Fardin Masoumi Valadi and Mohammadreza Azarshakib.
Since 2008, Tervel Dlagnev wearing a coaching job at the University of Northern Iowa.
2010 occupied Tervel Dlagnev both in the United States Championship as well as the U.S. world championship eliminator behind Les Sigman from Nittany Lion WC 2nd place. Therefore He did not come at the World Championships in Moscow for use. In Monterrey, but he was Pan American heavyweight champion in front of Jesse Ruiz Flores from Mexico and Antoine Aboujaoude, Brazil. In 2011 he was again but U.S. champion and also won the elimination tournament for the World Championship in Istanbul Steve Mocco. At the World Championships he defeated among others the two-time Olympic champion Artur Taimasow from Uzbekistan. In the semifinals, but he was defeated by Alexei Schemarow from Belarus and eventually he was defeated in the battle for a world championship bronze medal against Davit Modsmanaschwili from Georgia, who was after a two-year doping ban at the start again on points.
2012 won Tervel Dlagnev before the Olympic Games in London four heavily-stocked international tournaments and defeated in such a strong wrestler as the reigning world champion Alexei Schemarow, Taha Akgül from Turkey and Komeil Ghasemi from Iran. In February 2012, he was in Colorado Springs also Pan-American champion before Sunny Dhinsa, Canada and Disney Rodriguez of Cuba. At the Olympic Games in London, he defeated Ismael El Desouky Abdelraouf from Egypt and again Alexei Schemarow, but then lost to Artur Taimasow and in the fight for the bronze medal against Komeil Ghasemi. For him, therefore, was only a fifth place.
International success
National success
Notes
- All competitions in free style
- WM = World Cup
- Heavy weight, weight category up to 120 kg body weight
- Trials = elimination tournament
- NCAA = American University Sports Association
Swell
- Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
- Website of the U.S. Ringer Association,
- Website of the University of Nebraska,
- Website of the University of Northern Iowa,
- Website " www.wrestlinghalloffame.org "