Arsen Suleymanovich Fadsayev
Arsen Suleimanowitsch Fadsajew ( Russian Арсен Сулейманович Фадзаев ; born September 5, 1962 in Chikola , Irafsky district , North Ossetia ) is a former Soviet wrestler of North Ossetian descent and current politician . He was Olympic champion in 1988 and 1992 in free style in lightweight.
Career
Arsen Fadzayev started wrestling as a teenager in 1977. His great talent was discovered early on. He was therefore delegated to a wrestling center in Vladikavkaz and formed there by the coaches Ramazan Bichilow and Kazbek Dedegkajew to an expert in free style. As a teenager he already won all the championships in the Soviet Union, then called Spartiakiads, in the respective age groups. Arsen Fadzayev was an extremely powerful, stocky wrestler whose strength, coupled with excellent technique, made him almost unbeatable.
In 1981 Arsen Fadsajew became Junior World Champion (Espoirs = age group up to 20 years of age) in Vancouver in free style in bantamweight. In 1982 he won the European Junior Championships in Leipzig in featherweight. In 1983 he made a lasting impression on senior citizens in the Soviet Union, when he was the winner of the lightweight in free style at the VIII. Spartakiad .
Arsen Fadzayev was then used at the world championship in Kiev in 1983 and immediately won the lightweight world championship. Until 1988 he won all international championships in which he participated. These were the world championships in 1985 in Budapest , 1986 again in Budapest and 1987 in Clermont-Ferrand , the European championships in 1984 in Jönköping , 1985 in Leipzig , 1987 in Veliko Tarnowo and 1988 in Manchester , and the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul . He could not take part in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles because of the boycott of these games by the socialist states of the time. He would probably have won there too. In these years he defeated all wrestlers of rank and name who opposed him. Mention may be made here Bujandelgeriin Bold from Mongolia , Kamen Penev and Simeon Shterev from Bulgaria , Jukka Rauhala from Finland , Georgios Athanasiadis from Greece , Park Jang-soon of South Korea and Nate Carr from the United States . This list could be expanded at will. In most of these championships Arsen Fadsayev won without having to accept a single missing point, that is, he defeated all his opponents prematurely.
At the 1989 World Cup in Martigny / Switzerland , Arsen Fadsajew tried a weight class higher in welterweight. And here he found his master in Kenneth Monday from the USA . In the final battle of this tournament, Monday defeated Fadsayev with 6: 1 points. Arsen Fadzayev therefore had to be content with 2nd place at this world championship.
From 1990 to 1992 he started for Russia after the political change in the Soviet Union . He fought again in the lightweight and added the world championship title in 1990 in Tokyo and 1991 in Varna and the Olympic victory in 1992 in Barcelona to his large collection of titles.
Arsen Fadzayev ended his international wrestling career after the Olympic Games in Barcelona. He had studied economics in Tashkent and worked as a teacher. In 1996, however, he made a comeback with a view to the Olympic Games in Atlanta . Since he did not expect a nomination from the Russian Wrestling Association, he started for Uzbekistan and was nominated for these games there, without actually having qualified for it. The experiment went wrong, because Arsen Fadsayev won in Atlanta in the first round over Ali Akbar Fallah from Iran on points, but then lost to Vadim Bogiyev from Russia with 6: 4 points and was demotivated by this defeat defeated the Syrian Ahmad Al Osta with 11: 9 points. Arsen Fadzayev ended up on the for him indisputable 13th place. He had to realize that a four-year break is not so easy to shake off even for an exceptional talent like him. In September 2003 he was one of the first to be inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .
politics
Arsen Fadzayev is now a member of the North Ossetia State Duma. In 2007 he was elected to the Duma , the Russian parliament.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Ba = Bantamweight, Fe = featherweight, Le = lightweight, We = welterweight, back then up to 57 kg, 62 kg, 68 kg and 74 kg Body weight)
- 1981, 1st place, Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Vancouver , F, Le, ahead of Barry Davis , USA , Iwan Todorow, Bulgaria, Chuk Woo-Park, South Korea and Béla Nagy , Hungary ;
- 1982, 1st place, Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Leipzig , F, Le, ahead of Ogruszek, Poland and Mustfow, Bulgaria;
- 1983, 1st place, World Championships in Kiev , F, Le, ahead of Bujandelgeriin Bold , Mongolia , Kamen Penew , Bulgaria, Kokichi Sugino, Japan , Raúl Cascaret Fonseca , Cuba and Zoltan Szalontai , Hungary ;
- 1984, 1st place, EM in Jönköping , F, Le, with victories over Oktay Aktas, Turkey , Kamen Penew, Eric Brulon, France , Lubomir Holoubek, CSSR , Jukka Rauhala , Finland and Jan Szymanski, Poland;
- 1985, 1st place, EM in Leipzig , F, Le, with victories over Zoltan Szalontai, Guiterrez, Spain , Jablonski, GDR , Rolf Schüler, FRG and Fevzi Şeker , Turkey;
- 1985, 1st place, World Championships in Budapest , F, Le, ahead of Bujandelgeriin Bold, Pat Sullivan , Canada , Simeon Schterew , Bulgaria, Zoltan Szalontai and Andrzej Kubiak , Poland;
- 1985, 1st place, World Super Championships (unofficial) in Tokyo , F, Le, ahead of Andrew Rein , USA and Veshihiko Hara, Japan;
- 1986, 1st place, World Cup in Toledo / USA, F, Le, ahead of Andre Metzger , USA, Eugenio Montero, Cuba, Bujandelgeriin Bold and Zsigmond Kelevitz, Australia ;
- 1986, 1st place, World Championships in Budapest, F, Le, ahead of Andre Metzger, Simeon Schterew, Eugenio Montero, Jukka Rauhala and David McKay , Canada;
- 1986, 1st place, World Super Championships (unofficial) in Tokyo, F, Le, ahead of Kokichi Sugino, Yshihiko Hara and Pat Sullivan;
- 1987, 1st place, EM in Veliko Tarnowo / Bulgaria, F, Le, ahead of Georgios Athanasiadis , Greece , Simeon Schterew, Jukka Rauhala, Daniel Santoro, France and Daniel Ionita, Romania ;
- 1987, 1st place, World Championship in Clermont-Ferrand , F, Le, ahead of Georgios Athanasiadis, Andre Metzger, Kōsei Akaishi , Japan, Simeon Schterew and Park Jang-Soon , South Korea ;
- 1988, 1st place, Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Aschaffenburg , F, Le, ahead of Boris Budajew , USSR , Kōsei Akaishi, Zoltan Szanlontai, Kamen Penew and Alexander Leipold , FRG;
- 1988, 1st place, EM in Manchester , F, Le, ahead of Attila Podolszki , Hungary, Angel Sirakow, Bulgaria, Georgios Athanasiadis, Andrzej Kubiak and Alexander Leipold;
- 1988, gold medal, OS in Seoul , F, Le, in front of Park Jang-Soon, Nate Carr , USA, Kōsei Akaishi, David McKay and Jukka Rauhala;
- 1988, 1st place, FILA Grand Prix Gala in Budapest, F, Le, in front of Angel Sirakow, Istvan Dobi and Janos Forizs, bde. Hungary;
- 1989, 1st place, World Cup in Toledo / USA, F, Le, ahead of Nate Carr, Chris Wilson , Canada and Jesús E. Rodríguez Garzón , Cuba;
- 1989, 2nd place, World Championship in Martigny / Switzerland , F, We, behind Kenneth Monday , USA and in front of Lodoin Enchbajar , Mongolia, Valentin Zelew , Bulgaria, Krzysztof Walencik, Poland and Alexander Leipold;
- 1990, 1st place, World Championships in Tokyo, F, Le, ahead of Georgios Athanasiadis, Jesús E. Rodríguez Garzón, Kōsei Akaishi, Nate Carr and Kamil Kocaoğlu , Turkey;
- 1991, 1st place, WM in Warna , F, Le, ahead of Chris Wilson, Walentin Gezow , Bulgaria, Georg Schwabenland , FRG, Endre Elekes, Hungary and Georgios Athanasiadis;
- 1992, 1st place, OS in Barcelona , F, Le, in front of Valentin Gezow, Kōsei Akaishi, Ali Akbar Nejad, Iran, Fatih Özbas , Turkey and Ko Young-Ho, South Korea;
- 1996, 13th place, OS in Atlanta , F, Le, winner: Wadim Bogijew , Russia ahead of Townsend Saunders , USA and Zoza Zazirow , Ukraine
swell
- Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 10/1983, page 6, 5/1984, page 11, 5/1985, page 12, 11/1985, page 6, 11/1986, page 10, 6/1987, page 9, 9 / 1987, pages 9/10, 5/1988, pages 4/5, 10/1988, pages 10 to 12, 9/1989, page 10, 10/1990, page 4, 10/1991, pages 8 to 10, 9 / 1992, pages 10 to 15, 9/1996, pages 11 to 15
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baumgartner and Smith among charter FILA 2003 Hall of Fame class ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 11, 2010
Web links
- Arsen Fadzayev's profile at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science
- Arsen Fadzayev in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Fadzayev, Arsen Suleimanowitsch |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Фадзаев, Арсен Сулейманович (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet wrestler and Russian politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | 5th September 1962 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Chikola , Irafsky district , North Ossetia |