Abbas Jadidi

Abbas Jadidi

Abbas Jadidi (born January 13, 1969 in Tehran ) is a former Iranian wrestler .

Career

Jadidi started wrestling at the age of eight and became a member of the Shiroudi sports club in Tehran, where he specialized in freestyle wrestling, a style with a long tradition in Iran. In 1989 he started at the Junior World Championships in Ulaanbaatar , where he finished 2nd in the middleweight division . In the course of his career he grew at a height of 1.83 m over the light heavy to the heavyweight.

In 1991 he represented Iran for the first time at the Senior World Cup. In Varna he reached 7th place in the light heavyweight division. He did not make the jump to the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , but was first Asian heavyweight champion in Ulaanbaatar in 1993.

At the World Championships in Toronto in 1993 , Jadidi was world light heavyweight champion ahead of the American Melvin Douglas . However, due to a positive doping test, the world championship title he had won was revoked by the officials of the FILA International Wrestling Federation and awarded to Douglas. As a result, Jadidi was banned from international competitions for two years.

In the further course of his career, Jadidi achieved a number of great successes. For example, he won the silver medal in the heavyweight division at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , after winning a bronze medal at the 1995 World Cup at the same location after a semi-final defeat by the American Kurt Angle . Against Kurt Angle, he also lost the fight for the 1996 Olympic victory.

He celebrated the greatest success of his career in 1998 when he won the world light heavyweight title in his home country Tehran. In the final he defeated the strong Pole Marek Garmulewicz with a 0-0 score by a judge's decision.

In 1999 he started in the heavyweight division for the first time at the World Championships in Ankara and finished in 3rd place after losing on points in the semifinals against Andrei Shumilin from Russia . At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 he just missed a medal with 4th place and only ended up in 7th place at the 2001 World Championships in Sofia . In 2002 he started again at the Asian Games in Busan and finished his international career with a 2nd place in the heavyweight division behind the silver medalist from the OS 2000 Artur Taymazov from Uzbekistan .

In 2006 Jadidi became the head coach of the Iranian freestyle team.

In 2013 he was elected to the Tehran City Council.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = Freestyle, Wed = Middleweight, Hs = Light Heavyweight, S = Heavyweight)

• 1989, 2nd place , Junior World Championships in Ulaanbaatar , F, Wed, behind Sebahattin Öztürk , Turkey and in front of Nicolae Ghiţă , Romania and Sergej Gubrinjuk, USSR ;

• 1991, 7th place , World Cup in Varna , F, Hs, behind Macharbek Chadarzew , USSR Iraklios Deskoulidis, Greece , Roberto Limontas , Cuba , Rumen Alabekow, Bulgaria , Christopher Campbell , USA and Kenan Şimşek , Turkey ;

• 1992, 2nd place , Asian Games in Teheran , F, Hs, behind Puntsagiin Süchbat , Mongolia and ahead of Akira Ohta, Japan ;

• 1992, 2nd place , World Cup tournament in Moscow , F, Hs, behind Wiktor Gisojew, CIS and ahead of Dan Chaid, USA and Ahmet Doğu , Turkey;

• 1993, 1st place , Asian Championships in Ulaanbaatar, F, S, ahead of Lin Chang-Yin, Taiwan and Battogtochyn Bat-Erdene , Mongolia;

• 1993, unplaced , World Championships in Toronto , F, Hs, winner: Melvin Douglas , USA ahead of Eldari Luka Kurtanidze , Georgia and Macharbek Chadarzew;

• 1995, 3rd place , World Championships in Atlanta , F, S, behind Kurt Angle , USA and Arawat Sabejew , Germany and in front of Sjarhej Kawaleuski , Belarus , Jambulat Tedejew , Ukraine and Milan Mazáč , Slovakia ;

• 1996, 1st place , Asian Games in Xiaoshan / China, F, S, ahead of Dolgorsürengiin Sumjaabadsar , Mongolia and Konstantin Alexandrow, Kyrgyzstan ;

• 1996, silver medal , OS in Atlanta, F, S, behind Kurt Angle and in front of Arawat Sabejew, Sjarhej Kawaleuski, Marek Garmulewicz , Poland and Konstantin Alexandrow;

• 1998, 1st place , World Cup tournament in Stillwater / USA, F, Hs, ahead of Kuramagomed Kuramagomedow , Russia, Wilfredo Morales , Cuba, JJ Mc Crew, USA and Hans Gstöttner , Germany;

• 1998, 4th place , Goodwill Games in New York , F, Hs, behind Sagid Murtasalijew , Russia, Melvin Douglas and Kaşif Şakiroğlu, Turkey;

• 1998, 1st place , World Championships in Tehran, F, Hs, ahead of Garmulewicz, Kuramagomed Kuramagomedow, Wadym Tassoew , Ukraine, Melvin Douglas and Eldari Luka Kurtanidze;

• 1998, 1st place , Asian Games in Bangkok , F, Hs, ahead of Dolgorsürengiin Sumjaabadsar and Soslan Frayev , Uzbekistan ;

• 1999, 3rd place , World Cup in Ankara , F, S, behind Stephen Neal , USA and Andrei Schumilin , Russia and in front of Rezep Aşqabaliyev, Azerbaijan, Aydın Polatçı , Turkey and Sven Thiele , Germany;

• 2000, 4th place , OS in Sydney , F, S, behind David Musuľbes , Russia, Artur Taymazov , Uzbekistan and Alexis Rodríguez Valera , Cuba and in front of Kerry McCoy , USA and Aljaksej Mjadswedseu , Belarus;

• 2001, 7th place , World Cup in Sofia , F, S, behind David Musuľbes, Artur Taymazov, Alexis Rodríguez Valera, McCoy, Aydın Polatçı and Bodschidar Bojadschijew, Bulgaria;

• 2002, 2nd place , Asian Games in Busan , F, S, behind Artur Taymazov and in front of Cheema Palwinder Singh, India

swell

• 1) International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig,
• 2) Trade journal "Der Ringer", numbers: 10/91, 10/93, 09/95, 09/96, 05/98, 10/98, 10/99, 10/00, 10/01 and 09/92

Web links

• Profile of Abbas Jadidi at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Abbas Jadidi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wrestling at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Men's Heavyweight, Freestyle. Retrieved August 10, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Angle vs. Jadidi on USA Wrestling Members-Only website | TheMat.com - USA Wrestling. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 10, 2017 ; accessed on August 10, 2017 .