David Musuľbes

David Musuľbes (born as Russian Давид Владимирович Мусульбес , Dawid Wladimirowitsch Mussulbes ; born May 28, 1972 in Ordzhonikidze , North Ossetian ASSR , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a Slovak and formerly Russian wrestler of Ossetian origin.

Career

David Musuľbes grew up in Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz) and began wrestling there . As a teenager and junior, he was one of the best wrestlers in free style in his respective age group in the Soviet Union. His trainer in Ordzhonikidze was Kazbek Dedikajew, who formed many world-class Ossetian athletes. Later he moved to CSKA Moscow , the central sports club of the army, with which he secured his economic existence in order to devote himself fully to wrestling. After joining the Russian national team of freestyle wrestlers after 1992, he was trained by Saveli Bjasrov.

He made his debut on the international wrestling stage in 1994 at the European Championships in Rome in the heavyweight class. With an eighth rank, he could not meet the expectations of the Russian coach, as this was higher after the usual successes of other Russian wrestlers. In Rome he lost to the German champion Heiko Balz in the first round even on shoulders. Nevertheless, the Russian team management held on to Mussulbes in the coming competitions. At the world championship of the same year in Istanbul , he took 3rd place in the heavyweight division. In the semifinals he was defeated by the German Arawat Sabejew , who became world champion, just on points.

He won his first title at the 1995 European Championships in Freiburg in Üechtland / Switzerland . In the final he defeated Milan Mazáč from Slovakia , who had advanced through a favorable group to the final, superior on points. In his group, David Musuľbes had surprised Arawat Sabejew after a few seconds with a quick action in his first fight and defended the point advantage until the end of the fight. The revenge for this defeat succeeded Sabejew in the same year at the World Cup in Atlanta , when he came to a 4-0 point victory over Musuľbes, which had to be eliminated from the tournament early.

In 1996 David Musuľbes won another medal at the European Championships in Budapest with 3rd place. At the Olympic Games in Atlanta, heavyweight Leri Chabelowi was used, but he did not win a medal. In 1997 Musuľbes moved to the super heavyweight class. By winning the title at the European Championships in Warsaw , he also convinced in this weight class. In the final he beat Aljaksej Mjadswedseu from Belarus safely on points. At the World Championships in Krasnoyarsk he was defeated in the semifinals by the Turkish Zekeriya Güçlü and had to reach 3rd place.

In 1998 and 1999 David Musuľbes stagnated. During these years he concentrated more on his engineering studies. After all, he finished 3rd at the 1998 European Championships in Bratislava . In 1999 he completely renounced international assignments.

In 2000 he returned with a 2nd place at the European Championships. In the final, the Pole Marek Garmulewicz proved to be the stronger. In the summer, David Musuľbes achieved the greatest triumph of his career. With four superior victories over Sven Thiele , Germany , Peter Pecha, Slovakia, Abbas Jadidi from Iran and Artur Taymazov from Uzbekistan , he became Olympic champion . Only Taymazov was able to take two points from him in the 2-5 defeat.

The Olympic victory was followed by five victories at international championships in a row between 2001 and 2003. He became European champion in 2001, 2002 and 2003 and world champion in 2001 and 2002. A unique series of victories. In all of these championships he was undefeated. His decision to resign before the 2004 Olympic year was all the more surprising.

David Musuľbes is a mining engineer, but also works as an assistant coach in the Russian freestyle team.

After a five-year break on the wrestling mat, David Musuľbes started a comeback for Slovakia in autumn 2007. For this country he started in April 2008 at the European Championships in Tampere in free style. He won his first four fights there, but lost in the final to the only twenty-year-old Dawit Modsmanashvili from Georgia on points and thus came in second place. After the European Championships it was found that Dawit Modsmanashvili was doped. The title was therefore revoked from him. David Musuľbes was declared 2008 European Champion. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 he competed for Slovakia and won the silver medal.

David Musuľbes signed a contract with the German Bundesliga club KSV Aalen 05, for which he has been eligible to start since February 24, 2008.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = freestyle, S = heavyweight, then up to 100 kg body weight, SS = super heavyweight, up to 2001 up to 130 kg, from 2002 up to 120 kg (1997 up to 125 kg) body weight )

• 1994, 8th place , EM in Rome , F, S, winner: Marek Garmulewicz , Poland ahead of Heiko Balz , Germany a . Ali Kayalı , Turkey ;
• 1994, 1st place , Goodwill Games, F, S, ahead of Mark Kerr , USA , Oleksij Netschyporenko , Ukraine a . İbrahim Kari, Turkey;
• 1994, 3rd place , World Cup in Istanbul , F, S, behind Arawat Sabejew , Germany a. Davud Məhəmmədov, Azerbaijan a . before Oleksij Netschypurenko, Ayub Banynosvat, Iran a. Ahmet Doğu , Turkey;
• 1995, 1st place , EM in Freiburg im Üechtland / Switzerland , F, S, ahead of Milan Mazáč , Slovakia , Sabejew, Arvi Aavik , Estonia, Kenan Şimşek , Turkey and others. József Glázer, Hungary ;
• 1995, 11th place , World Championships in Atlanta , F, S, winner: Kurt Angle , USA ahead of Sabejew u. Abbas Jadidi , Iran;
• 1995, 3rd place , World Military Games, F, S, behind Savaş Yıldırım, Turkey a. Gelegdschamtsyn Ösöchbajar, Mongolia ;
• 1995, 1st place , World Cup tournament in Chattanooga / USA, F, S, in front of Kurt Angle, USA a. Kavi H. Ibrahim, Egypt ;
• 1996, 3rd place , EM in Budapest , F, S, behind Garmulewicz u. Mazáč and before Sjarhej Kawaleuski , Belarus, Sabejew u. Serhij Prjadun, Ukraine;
• 1996, 1st place , "Challenge" tournament in Manchester , F, S, in front of Wade Wishloff, Canada a . Dries van Leeven, Netherlands ;
• 1997, 1st place , World Military Games, F, SS, in front of Alireza Rezaei , Iran a. Aydın Polatçı , Turkey;
• 1997, 3rd place , World Cup tournament in Stillwater / USA, F, SS, behind Bruce Baumgartner , USA a. Alexis Rodríguez Valera , Cuba ;
• 1997, 1st place , EM in Warsaw , F, SS, ahead of Aljaksej Mjadswedseu , Belarus, Sven Thiele , Germany, Aydın Polatçı, Jurij Schobitko , Ukraine a. Krassimir Kochev, Bulgaria;
• 1997, 3rd place , World Championships in Krasnoyarsk , F, SS, behind Zekeriya Güçlü , Turkey a. Alexis Rodríguez Valera u. before Tom Eriksson , USA, Mjadswedseu u. Schobitko;
• 1998, 1st place , FILA-Test-Tournament, F, SS, ahead of Aydın Polatçı u. David R. Khorshid, Iran;
• 1998, 3rd place , EM in Bratislava , F, SS, behind Aydın Polatçı u. Milan Mazáč, Slovakia a. in front of Thiele, Aleksi Modebadse , Georgia a . Myadswedseu;
• 1999, 1st place , Grand Prix of Germany in Leipzig , F, SS, in front of Mjadswedseu, Güçlü, Zsolt Gombos , Hungary, Dirk Winterfeldt u. Markus Hamann, bde. Germany;
• 2000, 2nd place , EM in Budapest, F, SS, behind Garmulewicz u. from Thiele, Recab Aşabalıyev, Azerbaijan, Peter Pecha, Slovakia a. Schobitko;
• 2000, gold medal , OS in Sydney , F, SS, in front of Artur Taymazov , Uzbekistan , Alexis Rodríguez Valera, Jadidi, Kerry McCoy , USA a. Myadswedseu;
• 2001, 1st place , EM in Budapest, F, SS, in front of Modebadse, Thiele, Ottó Aubéli , Hungary, Iwan Ischtschenko, Ukraine a. Theofilos Ampatzis, Greece ;
• 2001, 1st place , Grand Prix of Germany in Leipzig, ahead of Thiele, Tolga Topçu, Turkey, Hamann a. Tomasz Szewczyk, Poland;
• 2001, 1st place , World Championships in Sofia , F, SS, ahead of Taymazov, Alexis Rodríguez Valera, McCoy, Aydın Polatçı u. Bodschidar Bojadschiew, Bulgaria;
• 2002, 1st place , EM in Baku , F, SS, ahead of Dawit Otiaschwili , Georgia, Güçlü, Thiele, Bojadschiew u. Schobitko;
• 2002, 1st place , World Championships in Tehran , F, SS, ahead of Alexis Rodríguez Valera, Aydın Polatçı, Otiaschwili, Aubéli u. R. Shiklaschafijew, Kazakhstan;
• 2003, 4th place , FILA Absolute Championship in Moscow , F, SS, behind Alexis Rodríguez Valera, Steve Mocco , USA a. Kuramagomed Kuramagomedow , Russia a . in front of Marid Mutalimow , Kazakhstan a. Fashion baths;
• 2008, 1st place , EM in Tampere , F, S, with victories over Ottó Aubéli, Hungary, Bachtijar Achmedow , Russia a. Aydın Polatçı, Turkey u. a loss to Dawit Modsmanashvili , Georgia; the original winner Modsmanashvili was subsequently stripped of the title because of doping;
• 2008, 2nd place , OS in Beijing , F, SS

Russian championships

David Musuľbes won the Russian championship five times.

swell

• International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig
• Website about famous Ossetians, "ossetians.com"
• Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 05/94, 09/94, 06/95, 09/95, 04/96, 09/96, 05/97, 09/97, 06/98, 07/08/99, 05 / 00, 09/00, 05/01, 07/01, 07/01, 12/01, 05/02, 09/02, 05/03

Web links

• Profile of Dawid Mussulbes at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Dawid Mussulbes in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )