Aljaksandr Paulau (wrestler)

Alyaksandr Valeryevich Paulau ( Belarusian Аляксандр Валер'евіч Паўлаў , Russian Александр Валерьевич Павлов , Alexander Pavlov Valeryevich * 9. July 1973 in Sovetsk , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Belarusian wrestler . He won a Greco-Roman style silver medal in paper weight at the 1996 Olympics .

Career

Allajksandr Paulau began wrestling as a teenager in 1983 in the Soviet Union . He concentrated on the Greco-Roman style. In 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union , he started for Belarus . He was a member of the Profsojuz Hrodna sports club and was trained there by Vyacheslav Maximov. It was very light and started at a height of 1.54 meters in the lightest weight class, paper weight, the weight limit of which was 48 kg body weight and, after the elimination of this weight class, from 1997 in flyweight (up to 54 kg body weight). Aljaksandr Paulau also wrestled in the German Bundesliga.

In 1992 he started for the Ukraine at the Junior European Championship (Espoirs = age group up to the age of 20) in Székesfehérvár . He finished there behind Magomed Magomedow from Russia , but in front of Armen Nazarjan from Armenia, the 2nd place. That was the beginning of his international career.

In the senior class, he first started in an international championship in 1993. He came in 10th place at the World Championships in Stockholm . At the European Championships in 1994, which took place in Athens , he did only marginally better because he was ninth there. In the same year he was used at the World Championships in Tampere , where he did very well. He fought his way up to the finals, but lost to Wilber Sánchez from Cuba . But he was runner-up in the world championship .

At the 1995 European Championships in Besançon he lost to the 1992 Olympic champion Oleg Kutscherenko , who started for Germany in 1993 (1: 6 technical points) and took 4th place in paper weight, which he just missed a medal. Against Oleg Kutscherenko, Aljaksandr Paulau was also defeated at the 1995 World Cup in Prague (with 0: 5 technical points). He came in 6th place there. He took the same place at the 1996 European Championships in Budapest . The 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta became the highlight of his career . He reached the final there and was defeated by the South Korean Sim Kwan-ho on points (0: 4 technical points). But winning the Olympic silver medal was the greatest success of his career.

After that, Aljaksandr Paulau did not reach any top positions in international championships. He was also unable to qualify for participation in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney .

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1992	2.	Junior European Championship (Espoirs) in Székesfehérvár	paper	behind Magomed Magomedow, Russia , in front of Armen Nazarjan , Armenia
1993	10.	World Cup in Stockholm	paper	Winner: Wilber Sánchez , Cuba ahead of Safar Gulijew , Russia a. Sim Kwon-ho , South Korea
1994	9.	EM in Athens	paper	Winner: Safar Gulijew before József Hamzok , Hungary a . Ioannis Agatzanjan , Greece
1994	2.	World Cup in Tampere	paper	behind Wilber Sánchez, in front of Gela Papashvili , Georgia a . Bayram Özdemir , Turkey
1995	2.	Hungarian Grand Prix in Eger	paper	behind Nick Zagranitschni, Israel , in front of Oleg Olrubmambetow, Russia a. Imre Szarka, Hungary
1995	1.	Grand Prix of Norway in Porsgonn	paper	before Nick Zagranitschni, Hiroshi Kado, Japan a. Fariborz Besarati , Sweden
1995	4th	EM in Besançon	paper	behind Ioannis Agatzanjan, Safar Gulijew u. Oleg Kutscherenko , Germany , in front of Fariborz Besarati
1995	6th	World Cup in Prague	paper	behind Sim Kwan-ho, Hiroshi Kado, Safar Gulijew, Oleg Kutscherenko u. Mujaahid Maynard , USA
1996	5.	EM in Budapest	paper	behind Safar Gulijew, Ioannis Agatzanjan, Francesco Costantino , Italy u. Piotr Jabłoński , Poland
1996	silver	OS in Atlanta	paper	behind Sim Gwon-ho , in front of Safar Gulijew, Kang Yong Gyun , North Korea etc. Wilber Sánchez
1997	2.	Baltic Sea Games	To fly	behind Boris Ambarzumow , Russia, in front of Piotr Jabłoński
1997	3.	Grand Prix of Israel in Beer Sheva	To fly	behind Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan , Germany a. Dariusz Jabłoński, Poland, in front of Wascha Omanidze, Georgia
1999	6th	Polish Grand Prix in Warsaw	To fly	behind Dariusz Jabłoński, Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan, Oleg Kutscherenko, Piotr Jabłoński u. Barys Radkewitsch , Belarus
1999	21st	EM in Sofia	To fly	Winner: Samwel Danijeljan , Russia ahead of Dariusz Jabłoński, Natiq Eyvazov , Azerbaijan u. Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan
2000	20th	Olympic qualification tournament in Clermont-Ferrand	To fly	Winner: Wang Hui, People's Republic of China, ahead of Natiq Eyvazov u. Uranium Chalilov, Kyrgyzstan
2000	1.	Olympic qualification tournament in Alexandria	To fly	in front of Serhij Sobokar u. Ercan Yıldız , Turkey
2000	17th	EM in Moscow	paper	Winner: Marian Sandu , Romania ahead of Boris Ambarzumow u. Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan

Note: all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, paper weight, up to 48 kg body weight until 1996, then abolished, flyweight, until 1996 up to 52 kg, from 1997 to 2001 until 54 kg body weight

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• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
• Trade journal Der Ringer

Web links

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