Alexander Vladimirovich Ignatenko

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Alexander Wladimirowitsch Ignatenko , Russian Александр Владимирович Игнатенко , (born March 29, 1963 ) is a former wrestler who competed for the Soviet Union , the CIS and Russia . He was world champion in 1990 and 1991 in the Greco-Roman style flyweight.

Career

Alexander Ignatenko, a Russian from Siberia , began wrestling as a teenager in 1975. At the age of eighteen he joined the Red Army and started for the Army Sports Club SKA Omsk . His trainer there was I. Kalyuschni. Alexander Ignatenko was one for his weight classes with a height of 1.57 meters, he wrestled in the fly and later in the bantamweight, a physically very strong and agile wrestler. After he was accepted into the Russian national wrestling team in 1986, national coach Gennady Sapunov formed him into a world-class wrestler in the Greco-Roman style within a few years.

Although he had great competition in the Soviet Union and later in the CIS and in Russia , he came to a number of starts at the major international championships. He was twice world champion and twice European champion , but could not win a medal when participating in three Olympic Games.

Alexander Ignatenko made his debut at an international championship at the 1987 World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand . He finished there in flyweight behind the Cuban Pedro Roque Favier and the Polish Roman Kierpacz in 3rd place and thus won his first medal. He then won his first title at the 1988 European Championship in Kolbotn, Norway, near Oslo . He won there in the final battle with 3: 0 points over the local Jon Rønningen and was thus in the final result ahead of Rönningen, Walentin Krumow from Bulgaria , Mihai Cişmaş from Romania , Peter Stjernberg from Sweden and Markus Scherer from the Federal Republic of Germany .

As a co-favorite, he therefore started at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul in the flyweight division. After three wins he failed there in the pool final against the Japanese Atsuji Miyahara and also lost the battle for the bronze medal against the South Korean Lee Jaek-suk , who narrowly defeated him with the help of the fanatical South Korean crowd. Therefore only the 4th place remained for Alexander Ignatenko.

He had long since recovered from this disappointment at the 1989 World Cup in Martigny / Switzerland . He was clearly the best flyweight in this championship in Martigny. On the way to his first world title, he defeated u. a. Markus Scherer clearly on points (6: 0) and even finished the Turkish Remzi Öztürk with 10: 0 points in the final battle .

Alexander Ignatenko repeated this title win at the 1990 World Cup in Rome (Ostia). Here, too, he was safe in the flyweight division and won ahead of An Han-bong from South Korea a. Bratan Zenow from Bulgaria who won the World Cup silver and bronze medals. On the way to winning the title he defeated Pak, North Korea , Sheng Zetiang , People's Republic of China , Shawn Sheldon , USA , Rosario Schmitt , Germany, Marian Sandu , Romania and others. To Han-bong.

In 1991 Alexander Ignatenko switched to bantamweight, the next higher weight class. He became European champion straight away in this new weight class in Aschaffenburg . In his pool final, he won it just 1-0 points against Rıfat Yıldız from Germany. In encounters against Yildiz at international championships, this should remain Ignatenko's only victory. In the final battle he won in Aschaffenburg over Marian Sandu from Romania with 6: 3 points. Already at the 1991 World Cup in Varna , Ingantenko lost in the final battle against Rifat Yildiz by disqualification, because he had nothing to counter the stormy attacking Yildiz. He was runner-up behind Rifat Yildiz.

In 1992, Alexander Ignatenko concentrated entirely on the Olympic Games in Barcelona . In the bantamweight he wanted to win his first Olympic medal there. In the pool final he fought again against Rıfat Yıldız and shortly before the end of the fight was already clearly 1: 6 points behind. In the final phase of this fight he got two "2" ratings, but with which he only got 5: 6. The fight for the gold medal was already lost. But he also lost the battle for the bronze medal against the Chinese Sheng Zetiang, which was surprising.

He had bad luck at the 1993 World Cup in Stockholm , where he fought his way through to the final battle and in this, while leading on points, had to give up against the Armenian Aghassi Manukjan due to injury. In 1994 he started at the European Bantamweight Championships in Athens in the spring , but dropped out there early and only came in 9th place. At this year's World Cup in Prague , he was in better shape again, but failed in the pool final against the American Dennis Hall with 2: 3 points. In the battle for the bronze medal he defeated the Armenian Dimitris Miodsjan, who started for Greece , just on points.

At the European Championships in Budapest in 1996 , Alexander Ignatenko, now 33 years old, came 4th. In the battle for the bronze medal, he lost again to his old rival Rıfat Yıldız . Despite this disappointing outcome he became the Russian Wrestling Federation for the Olympic Games in Atlanta reported. It was already his third Olympic Games. It turned out there, however, that the time had not passed without a trace, because he lost in Atlanta to Yuri Melnichenko , a Russian fighting for Kazakhstan , and against the Greek Saskis Elgkian and only finished in a disappointing 19th place.

Then he ended his international wrestling career. Nothing is known about his further life.

International success

(all competitions in Greco-Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, flyweight, then up to 52 kg, bantam weight, then up to 57 kg body weight)

year space competition Weight class
1986 1. World Cup in Oak Lawns / USA To fly before Pedro Roque Favier , Cuba , Toshikazu Fujinami, Japan a . László Bíró , Hungary
1987 3. World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand To fly behind Pedro Roque Favier u Roman Kierpacz , Poland , in front of Serge Robert, France u. Valentin Krumow , Bulgaria
1987 7th FILA Grand Prix Gala in Budapest To fly Winner Roman Kierpacz ahead of Walentin Krumow u. Pedro Roque Favier
1988 1. Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg To fly before Roman Kierpacz , Csaba Vadász , Hungary , Rosario Schmitt u. Bernd Scherer , bde. FRG
1988 1. EM in Kolbotn To fly before Jon Rønningen , Norway , Walentin Krumow, Mihai Cișmaș , Romania , Peter Stjernberg , Sweden a . Markus Scherer , FRG
1988 4th OS in Seoul To fly behind Jon Rønningen, Atsuji Miyahara , Japan u. Lee Jaek-suk, South Korea , before Roman Kierpacz u. Tibor Jankovics, Czechoslovakia
1989 1. World Cup in Martigny / Switzerland To fly before Remzi Öztürk , Turkey , An Han-bong , South Korea, Csaba Vadász u. Bratan Zenow , Bulgaria
1990 1. World Cup in Rome To fly before An Han-bong, Bratan Zenow, Marian Sandu , Romania u. Shawn Sheldon , USA
1991 1. EM in Aschaffenburg Bantam before Marian Sandu, Rıfat Yıldız , FRG, Zoran Galovic, Yugoslavia , András Sike , Hungary a. Emil Ivanov , Bulgaria
1991 2. World Cup in Varna Bantam behind Rıfat Yıldız u. in front of András Sike , Patrice Mourier , France, Zoran Galovic u. Michizo Fujioka, Japan
1992 3. Grand Prix of the FRG in Bad Reichenhall Bantam behind Ralf Zentgraf, BRD u. Marian Sandu, before Peter Stjernberg, Pierre Dikanda, bde. Sweden a. András Sike
1992 4th OS in Barcelona Bantam behind An Han-bong , Rıfat Yıldız u. Sheng Zetiang, China, before William Lara Diaz, Cuba a. Marian Sandu
1993 2. World Cup in Stockholm Bantam behind Aghassi Manukjan , Armenia , in front of Mikael Lindgren , Finland , Aristidis Roumbenian , Greece u. Louis Sarmiento Hernandez, Cuba
1994 9. EM in Athens Bantam Winner: Şeref Eroğlu , Turkey ahead of Aristidis Roumbenian u. Marian Sandu
1995 2. GP of Germany in Koblenz Bantam behind Juri Melnitschenko , Kazakhstan and in front of Kenkichi Nishini, Japan, Aigars Jansons, Latvia , Peter Stjernberg and others. Juri Kohl , FRG
1995 3. World Cup in Prague Bantam behind Dennis Hall , USA a. Yuri Melnitschenko, in front of Dimitris Mioldsjan, Greece, Ruslan Chakimow, Ukraine a . To Han-bong
1996 4th EM in Budapest Bantam behind Şeref Eroğlu, Marian Sandu u. Rıfat Yıldız , before Aghassi Manukjan u. Aigars Jansons
1996 19th OS in Atlanta Bantam after defeats against Yuri Melnichenko a. Saskin Elgkian, Greece

swell

  • Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 9/87, 5/88, 10/88, 9/89, 11/90, 5/91, 10/91, 9/92, 10/93, 5/94, 9/94, 8/95, 5/96 and 9/96
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

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personal data
SURNAME Ignatenko, Alexander Vladimirovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet or Russian wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1963