Poor Vardanyan

Poor Frunsikowytsch Vardanyan ( Ukrainian Армен Фрунзікович Варданян , Armenian Արմեն Վարդանյան ; * the 30th November 1982 in Zaporizhia ) is a Ukrainian wrestler of Armenian origin. He was European champion in the Greco-Roman style in 2004 and 2008 in the lightweight .

Career

Armen Vardanyan came from Armenian parents, but grew up in Zaporozhye (Ukraine) and began wrestling there at the age of ten in 1992. He concentrated on the Greco-Roman style and was introduced to the top of the world by his trainer Murat Sarkisjan in the junior area. His club at the time was Dynamo Zaporizhia . Until 1998 he started for Armenia. In 1999 he went to Kiev , where he studied sports and competed for the sports club BK Kiev and for Ukraine . His coach there was Evgeny Chertkow.

He achieved his first major success on the international wrestling mat in 1998 when he finished 2nd with the Cadets (= up to the age of 16) in the class up to 57 kg (bantam weight) at the World Youth Games in Moscow . Took place. In 2000 he started in Moscow for the first time at the European Featherweight Championship for seniors. He still had to pay the hard way there and only came in 9th place. For this he was in the same year in Nantes junior European champion in featherweight, to which he added the vice world champion title in the junior lightweight in 2001 in Tashkent .

In 2001 he was back at the European Senior Championships in Istanbul , but lost his first fight there, had to retire and only finished 19th.

In 2003 he was back at the European Lightweight Championships in Belgrade . He won his first four fights there, but was then defeated in the final by the experienced Turkish world champion Şeref Eroğlu with 2: 5 points and became vice European champion .

In 2004 he won his first title in Haparanda / Finland. He became European champion with five wins in a superior style. At the Olympic Games in Athens that year , however, he could not win a medal. Again he lost to Şeref Eroğlu, this time with 0: 5 points.

In 2005 Armen Wardanjan competed at the European Championships in Varna and at the World Championships in Budapest . In Varna he won only one fight in the lightweight, but lost to Nikolai Gergow from Bulgaria and surprisingly against Moises Sanchez Parra from Spain and only reached 12th place. Things went better in Budapest. Here he won u. a. about the Swedish ex-world champion Jimmy Samuelsson , but had to admit defeat to Nikola Gergow again. In the fight for third place he was also defeated by Cuban Alain Milián and reached 5th place in the final score.

In 2006 and 2007 Armen Vardanyan was not used in the international championships. In April 2008 he was back at the European Championships in Tampere and won, stronger than ever, his second European title with five wins.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Ba = Bantam weight, then up to 57 kg body weight, Fe = feather weight, up to 2001 up to 63 kg, from 2002 up to 60 kg body weight, Le = lightweight, until 2001 up to 69 kg, from 2002 up to 66 kg body weight)

• 1996, 6th place , Junior World Championships (Cadets) in Tehran , GR, up to 43 kg body weight, winner Hassen Heidanarian, Iran ahead of Mukesh Khatri, India a . Mommador Tural, Azerbaijan ;

• 1998, 2nd place , Junior World Championships (Cadets, World Youth Games) in Moscow , GR, Ba, behind Alexei Ivanov, Russia a . before Dawid Dolidse, Georgia a . Daulet Suleimanow, Kazakhstan ;

• 2000, 9th place , EM in Moscow , GR, Fe, winner: Warteres Warteressowitsch Samurgaschew , Russia ahead of Beat Motzer , Switzerland a . Vitaly Schuk , Belarus ;

• 2000, 1st place , Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Nantes , GR, Fe, ahead of Juri Kliaschnew, Russia, Ivo Minkow, Bulgaria and Louis Liendo, Venezuela ;

• 2001, 19th place , EM in Istanbul , GR, Fe, winner: Şeref Eroğlu , Turkey ahead of Temur Telmanow , Russia a. Wlodzimirz Zawadzki , Poland ;

• 2001, 2nd place , Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Tashkent , GR, Le, behind Andrei Demankin, Russia a. in front of Selçuk Çebi , Turkey a. Elizbar Machutadze, Georgia;

• 2003, 2nd place , EM in Belgrade , GR, Le, with victories over Moises Sanchez Parra , Spain , Nikolai Gergow , Bulgaria , Marciej Panariuk, Poland a. Sergei Kuntarew , Russia a. a loss to Şeref Eroğlu;

• 2004, 1st place , EM in Haparanda , GR, Le, with victories over Sergei Kuntarew, Ricardo Magni, Italy , Konstantinos Arkondeas , Greece , Ari Härkänen , Finland a. Vitaly Schuk;

• 2004, 5th place , OS in Athens , GR, Le, with victories over Louis Fernando Izquierdo, Cuba a . Manuchar K Wirkwelia , Georgia a. a loss to Şeref Eroğlu;

• 2005, 1st place , "Stanislaw-Pytlasinski" tournament in Warsaw , GR, Le, ahead of Jimmy Samuelsson , Sweden , Julian Kwit, Poland a. Nikolai Gergow;

• 2005, 12th place , EM in Varna , GR, Le, with a victory over Cedric Larfon, France a . Defeats against Nikolai Gergow, Bulgaria a. Moises Sanchez Parra;

• 2005, 5th place , World Championships in Budapest , GR, Le, with victories over Artak Harujunjan, Armenia, Ionuț Panait , Romania a . Jimmy Samuelsson et al. Defeats against Nikolai Gergow u. Alain Milián , Cuba;

• 2006, 5th place, Vantaan Cup in Vantaa / Finland, GR, Le, behind Alexander Kikinow, Belarus, Antti Hakala, Finland, Christopher Ljungbäck, Sweden u. Vadim Novikow, Russia;

• 2006, 3rd place, Haparanda-Cup, GR, Le, behind Oleksandr Khvoshsh , Ukraine u. Tiziano Corriga, Italy, together with Serjan Simonjan, Russia;

• 2007, 2nd place , "Stanislaw-Pytlasinski" tournament in Warsaw, GR, Le, behind Farid Maschurow , Azerbaijan a. before Mark Rial, USA a. Şeref Eroğlu;

• 2007, 3rd place , Grand Prix of Germany in Dortmund , GR, Le, behind Ionel Puşcaşu , Romania a. Jimmy Samuelsson, together with Selçuk Çebi;

• 2007, 3rd place , World Cup in Antalya , GR, Le, with victories over Mukhran Machutadze , Georgia a. Justin Harry Lester , USA a. a loss to Şeref Eroğlu;

• 2008, 1st place , EM in Tampere , GR, Le, with victories over Tomas Sobecky , Czech Republic , Mukhran Machutadze, Hussamaddin Rajabow, Azerbaijan, Ruslan Belcharojew , Russia a. Ionuț Panait

• 2008, bronze medal , OS in Beijing , after victories over Fərid Mansurov , Azerbaijan , Jacob Deitchler , USA and Nikolai Gergow , Bulgaria and a defeat against Kanatbek Begalijew , Kyrgyzstan

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer from 1996 to 2008,
• International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

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