Alexander Nikolayevich Ivanov (wrestler)

Alexander Nikolajewitsch Ivanov (born January 10, 1951 in Suntar Raion , Yakut ASSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Soviet wrestler and silver medalist at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal in free style flyweight.

Career

Alexander Ivanov, a Russian from Yakutia , began in 1963 with the rings . In Alma-Ata , Kazakhstan , the coaches Dimitri Korkin and Fjodor Matuschak led him into the world's free style elite. Because of the unusually strong competition that prevailed among wrestlers in the former Soviet Union, it was not until 1976 before Alexander came to his first appearance at an international championship. This was the same as the Olympic Games in Montreal . Alexander was able to convince there straight away. He won six fights and was only defeated in the final to the multiple Japanese world champion Yūji Takada, who was then considered unbeatable . He was rewarded with the silver medal for his good performance .

Alexander was also able to convince at the European Championships in Bursa in 1977 . He won four fights here, but lost again in the final, this time to the German Hartmut Reich from Jena . At the world championship of the same year in Lausanne, Alexander lost again in his second fight against Yuji Takada and in his third fight also the Bulgarian Nermedin Selimow , whom he had defeated shortly before at a tournament in Tbilisi . He therefore had to make do with 10th place.

The great times of the Beloglasov brothers (Anatoli and Sergei) began in the Soviet Union in 1978. Alexander Ivanov was therefore no longer used in any international championships.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, Fl = flyweight, back then up to 52 kg body weight)

• 1976, silver medal , OS in Montreal , F, Fl, with victories over Eloy Abreu , Cuba , James Haines , USA , Constantin Mandila, Romania , Ki Bong Sun, North Korea , Jeon Hae-Sup , South Korea and Władysław Stecyk , Poland and one defeat against Yūji Takada , Japan ;
• 1977, 1st place , tournament in Tbilisi , F, Fl, before Nermedin Selimow , Bulgaria and Khulam, Iran ;
• 1977, 2nd place , EM in Bursa , F, Fl, with victories over Henryk Gál , Poland , Ignat Dumitru, Romania, Kamil Özdag, Turkey and Władysław Stecyk and a defeat against Hartmut Reich , GDR ;
• 1977, 10th place , World Championships in Lausanne , F, Fl, with a victory over Sanja Batsuk, Mongolia and defeats against Yuji Takada and Nermedin Selimow;
• 1978, 3rd place , World Cup in Toledo / USA, F, Fl, behind James Haines and Isamitsu Kariba, Japan and in front of Juan Rodriguez, Cuba

swell

• various issues of the specialist magazine "Der Ringer" from 1976 to 1978,
• International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences Leipzig

Web links

Profile of Alexander Ivanov at the Institute for Applied Training Science