Anton Kodschabashev
Anton Kodschabaschew ( Bulgarian Антон Коджабашев , English transcription Anton Kodzhabashev ; born August 22, 1959 ) is a former Bulgarian weightlifter . He was bantamweight world champion in 1979, 1981 and 1982 .
Career
Anton Kodschabaschew began lifting weights as a teenager and developed into a world-class athlete in the era of coach Ivan Abadschiew at the Chernomurez Burgas sports club in the late 1970s. He was an employee of the Bulgarian Railway, but was able to concentrate fully on weightlifting training.
The start of his international career took place in 1978. That year he took part in the Junior World Championship in Athens , but had three failed attempts in the bantamweight division, so that he was unplaced. He was nevertheless used at the European Championships that year in Havířov and achieved there flyweight 232.5 kg (102.5-130) in a duel. With this achievement he took 4th place. At the 1978 World Cup in Gettysburg , he also started in the flyweight division. He achieved 225 kg (100-125) in a duel, which only reached 9th place.
In 1979 he started again in bantamweight. In this weight class he set up a new duel world record at the 5th National Spartakiade in Sofia with 265 kg (117.5-147.5). At the European Championships in 1979 in Varna he came close to this performance with 262.5 kg (115-147.5) and thus won the European title ahead of the Pole Dembonczyk, 260 kg and I. Stefanowics from Hungary, 252.5 kg. Finally, Anton Kodschabaschew also triumphed at the 1979 World Cup, which took place in Salonika . He achieved there in bantam weight with 267.5 kg (117.5-150) again a new duel world record and won in front of Valentin Weretennikow from the USSR, 262.5 kg and Dembonczyk, 260 kg.
In 1980 Anton Kodschabaschew had a lot of bad luck with injuries and could not start at the European Championships in Belgrade and the Olympic Games in Moscow . Restored, he started at the World and European Championships in Lille in 1981 and won there in bantamweight with 272.5 kg (117.5–155) just ahead of Andreas Letz from the GDR , who achieved the same performance due to the slightly lower body weight.
In 1982 he repeated these successes in Ljubljana . He achieved the new world record of 280 kg (125-155) at the World and European Championships in bantamweight combat and again won both duel titles in front of Oksen Mirsojan , USSR , 272.5 kg and the Chinese Wu Shute, who achieved 270 kg .
As a three-time world and European champion, Anton Kodschabaschew had to recognize in 1983 that he had not leased the successes alone. The reason for this was his Bulgarian competitors Neno Terziiski , Stefan Topurow and above all Naim Suleimanow , who suddenly all performed better than him and therefore blocked his way to further participation in international championships. Only in 1984 he was used again at the European Featherweight Championships in Vittorio / Italy . He achieved an excellent featherweight in a duel of 307.5 kg (135-172.5), with which he was behind Stefan Topurow, 315 kg (137.5-177.5) and Jurik Sarkisjan , USSR , 312.5 kg ( 137.5) , 5–175) took 3rd place.
Then Anton Kodschabaschew's international career came to an end. However, he continued to train and took part in many national competitions. After the political change in Bulgaria in 1990, he immediately took the chance to move to western countries and from then on he started for AC Soest in the German Bundesliga for several years . In his first fight for Soest, he showed that he was still a world-class athlete and achieved 305 kg (135-170) in a duel, although he was already lightweight.
After his return, Anton Kodschabaschew was initially a coach in Bulgaria. In the late 1990s he was elected President of the Bulgarian Weightlifting Association. During his term of office there were many successes by Bulgarian weightlifters, but overall this term of office is overshadowed by several doping scandals, for which Anton Kodschabaschew, together with the general secretary Norair Nurikjan and the coaches (again including Ivan Abadschiev ) are responsible. It started back in 2000. In that year, Isabela Dragnewa , Ivan Ivanov and Sewdalin Minchev had to be disqualified for doping at the Olympic Games in Sydney . Then world champion Rumjana Petkowa was exposed as a doping sinner. This was followed by the scandal surrounding Galabin Boewski , Georgi Markow and Slatan Wanew , who were noticed during a training check when they gave a uniform urine sample. The biggest scandal happened in 2008 when traces of doping ( nandrolone ) were found in the urine of eleven athletes of the Bulgarian national weightlifting team, which was scheduled for the Olympic Games in Beijing . Then were Georgi Markov and Alan Tsagaev as a repeat offender in the long run and Demir Demirev , Mohammed Fikretow , Ivan Stoizow , Ivan Markov , Velichko Cholakov , Milka Manewa , Donka Mintschewa and Gergana Kirilova suspended for four years. The Bulgarian weightlifting team, which in the scandals that preceded this last doping scandal, was repeatedly able to buy their way out by paying heavy fines to the International Weightlifting Association, was banned from participating in the Olympic Games in Beijing.
When you know that Valentin Christow had to give back his gold medal and Blagoj Blagojew his silver medal at the 1976 Olympic Games because they were doped and the same thing happened to Mitko Grablew and Angel Gentschew in 1988 , then there is serious doubt as to whether Bulgarian weightlifters can perform at all after 1969 (i.e. after Ivan Abajiev took over the post of head coach) in an honest manner. Incidentally, the list of Bulgarian doping offenders could go on and on.
During Anton Kodschabaschew's term of office the transfers of Bulgarian weightlifters to the wealthy Qatar also fell . Although these lifters trained in Bulgaria, they started with imaginative Arabic names (Abbas Nader Sufyan, Badr Saelem Nayef, Jaber Saeed Salem , Saif Assad Assad and others) for Qatar and were in some cases also successful at the Olympic Games and World Championships. Since the beginning of the year 2000, the Bulgarian Weightlifting Association has largely financed itself with the proceeds from these businesses.
Even so, in 2010, Kodschabashev was still president of one of two competing Bulgarian weightlifting associations.
International success
| year | space | competition | Weight class | |
| 1978 | unpl. | Junior World Championships in Athens | Bantam | after three failed attempts in tearing |
| 1978 | 5. | Friendship tournament in Moscow | Bantam | at 235 kg (102.5-132.5); Winner: Pospelow, USSR , 252.5 kg |
| 1978 | 4th | EM in Havířov | To fly | weighing 232.5 kg (102.5–130) behind Kanybek Osmonalijew , USSR, 237.5 kg, György Köszegi , Hungary , 237.5 kg and Béla Oláh , Hungary, 235 kg |
| 1978 | 9. | World Cup in Gettysburg | To fly | with 225 kg (100-125); Winner: Langbek Osmonalijew, 240 kg, in front of Golik, Poland, 237.5 kg a. Joel Casamayor , Cuba , 230 kg |
| 1979 | 2. | Friendship Cup in Leningrad | Bantam | with 257.5 kg (112.5–145), behind Daniel Núñez , Cuba, 260 kg |
| 1979 | 1. | EM in Varna | Bantam | with 262.5 kg (115-147.5), before T. Dembonczyk, Poland , 260 kg a. I. Stefanowics, Hungary, 252.5 kg |
| 1979 | 1. | World Cup in Saloniki | Bantam | with 267.5 kg (117.5-150), before Valentin Weretennikow, USSR, 262.5 kg (112.5-150) and T. Dembonczyk, 260 kg |
| 1981 | 1. | WM + EM in Lille | Bantam | with 272.5 kg (117.5–155), before Andreas Letz , GDR , 272.5 kg a. Nikolai Sakharov, USSR, 265 kg |
| 1982 | 1. | WM + EM in Ljubljana | Bantam | with 280 kg (125-155), before Oksen Mirsojan , USSR, 272.5 kg a. Wu Shute, People's Republic of China , 270 kg |
| 1984 | 3. | EM in Vittorio / Italy | feather | with 307.5 kg (135-172.5), behind Stefan Topurow , Bulgaria, 315 (137.5-177.5) and Jurik Sarkisjan , USSR, 312.5 kg (137.5–175) |
| 1984 | 1. | European Railway Championships in Gorna Orjahovitza / Bulgaria | feather | with 290 kg (127.5–162.5), before Nikolai Sakharov, 282.5 kg |
WM + EM individual medals
- World Cup gold medals: 1981 / Push - 1982 / Tear - 1982 / Push
- World Cup silver medals: 1979 / Tearing - 1979 / Pushing - 1981 / Tearing
- European Championship gold medals: 1981 / pushing - 1982 / tearing - 1982 / pushing
- European Championship silver medals: 1979 / tearing - 1979 / pushing - 1981 / tearing
- European Championship bronze medals: 1984 / tearing - 1984 / pushing
World records
| date | place | discipline | Weight class | power |
| 9/7/79 | Sofia | Tear | Bantam | 121.5 kg |
| 9/7/79 | Sofia | Bump | Bantam | 152 kg |
| 9/7/79 | Sofia | Duel | Bantam | 265 kg |
| 1979 | Saloniki | Duel | Bantam | 267.5 kg |
| 19.9.82 | Ljubljana | Duel | Bantam | 280 kg |
Explanations
- all competitions in single combat, consisting of snatch and push,
- WM = World Championship,
- EM = European Championship,
- Flyweight, back then up to 52 kg body weight,
- Bantam weight, then up to 56 kg body weight,
- Feather weight, back then up to 60 kg body weight
swell
- Athletics magazine
- Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
Web links
- Brief portrait of Anton Kodjabaschew
- Report on the doping case Galabin Boewski
- Article about Anton Kodjabaschew on the case of Jani Martschokow / Qatar
- Another report about Anton Kodjabaschew on the 1982 World Cup victory
- Report on the doping scandal from 2008
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kodschabashev, Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Коджабашев, Антон; Kodzhabashev, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian weightlifter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1959 |