Poor Bagdasarov

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Armen Bagdasarov (front) on an Uzbek postage stamp

Armen Bagdasarov (born July 31, 1972 in Tashkent , Uzbek SSR ) is a former Uzbek judoka . He won an Olympic silver medal at middleweight in 1996, the first Olympic medal for an Uzbek judoka after independence.

Career

The 1.90 m tall Bagdasarov fought in the middleweight division until 1997, in 1998 and 1999 he competed partly in the middleweight division and partly in the light heavyweight division. From 2000 he started in the light heavyweight division until the end of his career.

Bagdasarov was in 1992, starting for the Commonwealth of Independent States , third in the European Junior Championships. At the 1993 World Championships he defeated the Ukrainian Ruslan Maschurenko in the round of 16 and the Russian Oleg Malzew in the quarterfinals . In the semifinals, Bagdasarov lost to the Japanese Yoshio Nakamura . After his defeat to the Spaniard León Villar , Bagdasarov finished fifth. In 1995 Bagdasarov won a bronze medal at the Asian Championships.

In 1996, Uzbekistan took part in the Summer Olympics for the first time , after the freestyle skier Lina Cheryazova had become the first Uzbek Olympic champion after independence two years earlier . Seven Uzbek men and no women took part in the judo competitions in Atlanta . Armen Bagdasarov won his first three fights early. Only in the semifinals against the Romanian Adrian Croitoru did he have to go the full time and won with a middle rating (yuko). The final against Jeon Ki-young ended after 49 seconds with an ippon for the South Korean. At the end of 1996, Bagdasarov defeated the Japanese Kosei Arikawa in the final of the Asian Championships .

At the 1998 Asian Games , Bagdasarov fought in the light heavyweight division, in the final he was defeated by the Japanese Kōsei Inoue . In 1999 the Uzbek won the middleweight finals at the Asian Championships against the Japanese Masaru Tanabe . A month later he lost in the finals of the Universiade to the Canadian middleweight Keith Morgan .

2000 Bagdasarow won a bronze medal in the light heavyweight division at the Asian Championships. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , the Uzbek lost in two out of three fights and finished ninth. At the end of his international career he lost in the round of 16 of the 2001 World Championships against Canadian Nicolas Gill .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 756f
personal data
SURNAME Bagdasarov, poor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uzbek judoka
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Tashkent