Arsen Suleymanovich Fadsayev

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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)

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

  1. ↑ 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  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wrestlinghalloffame.org

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personal data
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