Andrew Borodow

Andrew Mark Borodow (born September 16, 1969 in Montreal , Québec ) is a retired Canadian wrestler and sumo fighter .

Career

Andrew Borodow denied the path of many North American and Canadian wrestlers: attended high school and then attended university. In both institutions he operated wrestling as the main sport. In addition, it belonged to the Montreal Wrestling Club and was looked after by the coaches Victor Zilberman and Rob Moore. Andrew has always been a super heavyweight, weighing approximately 150 pounds and competing in both styles. He also tried his hand at the Japanese national sport Sumo , where he surprised everyone with a silver medal at the World Amateur Championship in Tokyo in 1996 , after having finished 3rd in 1993 and 1995 respectively.

As a wrestler, he won four medals at the Pan American Games in 1991 and 1995, but never got past the top US wrestlers Matt Ghaffari and Bruce Baumgartner . In 1994 he also won the Commonwealth Free Style Super Heavyweight Games.

Andrew Borodow also started a total of five times at world championships in wrestling. The best results he achieved was fifth at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona and the 1989 World Cup in Martigny / Switzerland .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, GR = Greco-Roman style, SS = super heavyweight, back then up to 130 kg body weight)

• 1989, 5th place , World Championships in Martigny / Switzerland , GR, SS, behind Alexander Karelin , Soviet Union , László Klauz , Hungary , Tomas Johansson , Sweden a . Krassimir Angelow, Bulgaria a . in front of Alain Bifrare, Switzerland;
• 1990, 7th place , World Championships in Rome , GR, SS, behind Alexander Karelin, Tomas Johansson, Rangel Gerowski , Bulgaria, Alexander Neumüller , Austria , László Klauz u. Matt Ghaffari , USA ;
• 1990, 9th place , World Cup in Tokyo , F, SS, winner: Dawit Gobedschischwili , USSR ahead of Bruce Baumgartner , USA a. Ahmet Ayık , Turkey ,
• 1991, 3rd place , Pan American Games in Havana , GR, SS, behind Matt Ghaffari u. Wilfredo Pelayo, Cuba ;
• 1991, 2nd place , Pan American Games in Havanna, F, SS, behind Bruce Baumgartner u. in front of Domingo Mesa , Cuba;
• 1992, 5th place , OS in Barcelona , GR, SS, behind Alexander Karelin, Tomas Johansson, Ioan Grigoraș , Romania a . László Klauz u. before Lei Tian , People's Republic of China ;
• 1993, 10th place , World Championships in Toronto , F, SS, winner: Bruce Baumgartner in front of Mirabi Walijew , Ukraine a . Andrei Shumilin , Russia ;
• 1993, 3rd place , World Cup in Tokyo in Sumo , SS, behind Fumihito Tsuruga, Japan a . Tsedenbenda Bajarsaichan, Mongolia ;
• 1994, 1st place , Commonwealth Games in Victoria , British Columbia , F, SS, ahead of Bidel Jackson, Nigeria a . Amerjit Singh, India ;
• 1995, 3rd place , Pan American Games in Mar del Plata , GR, SS, behind Matt Ghaffari u. Edwin Millet, Puerto Rico ;
• 1995, 3rd place , Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, F, SS, behind Bruce Baumgartner u. Angel Anaya, Cuba;
• 1995, 10th place , World Championships in Prague , GR, SS, winner: Alexander Karelin in front of Sergei Mureiko , Moldova a . Matt Ghaffari
• 1995, 3rd place , World Cup in Tokyo in Sumo, SS, behind Naohito Saito, Japan a. Jörg Brümmer , FRG ;
• 1996, 2nd place , World Cup in Tokyo in Sumo, SS, behind Koichi Kato, Japan a . before Emeka Baba Mutum, Nigeria a. Yeh Kum-Fang, Taiwan

Canadian Championships

Andrew Borodow was a total of eleven times Canadian master in free style or in Greco-Roman between 1988 and 1996. Style.

swell

• 1) Various issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1988 to 1996,
• 2) Website "sport-komplett.de"
• 3) "sports.123.com" website

Web links

• Profile of Andrew Borodow at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science
• Andrew Borodow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )