Didier Païs

Didier Païs (born February 28, 1983 ) is a French wrestler . He won a silver medal in free style in featherweight at the European Championships in 2005 and 2008 .

Career

Didier Païs started wrestling at the SAO Colmar sports club in 1994 . At the beginning of his wrestling career he started in both styles, but soon concentrated on the free style. He was initially trained by Nicolas Claveria. Alain Berger has been his trainer since 2010. The 1.69 meter tall athlete studied sport and joined the French army after completing his studies. He is now starting for the sports club CPB Besançon . In the German Bundesliga he was previously at the start for SV Siegfried Hallbergmoos .

Didier Païs won the first medals at national championships in 2000. He was that year in free style French junior champion (cadets) up to 54 kg and took 3rd place in the same championship in Greco-Roman style. He was then French junior champion in 2002 and 2003. He was French champion in the seniors in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011. He won these titles in free style in featherweight.

He made his first start at an international championship in 1999. He finished 25th in the Cadet Junior World Championship in Lodz in the weight class up to 50 kg. In the following years he started several times at international junior championships and from 2004 also for the first time at a European championship for seniors. But he could never win a place among the ten best wrestlers. Only at the Mediterranean Games in 2001 in Tunis did he come fourth in the flyweight division .

In 2005, however, he achieved his first major international success. He fought his way through the featherweight championship in Varna with victories over Vitas Schumakow, Lithuania , Valerios Koguaschwili, Greece , Gergely Szabo, Hungary and Murad Ramasanow , Macedonia until the final, in which he was defeated by Wasil Fedorischin from Ukraine . After all, it made him vice European champion . In the following years his successes at international championships were modest. In 2008 he managed to become vice European champion again. He defeated Samet Dülger from Germany , Gheorghe Bucur from Romania and Gergő Wöller from Hungary in Tampere . As in 2005, he lost to Wasil Fedorischin in the final battle.

Didier Païs could not qualify for participation in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . He succeeded in doing so for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, because at the 2011 World Championships in Istanbul he finished 5th in the featherweight division, which is enough for a starting place in London. He achieved this success with victories over Vincenzo Rizzotto from Italy , Tim Schleicher , Germany a. Reece Humphrey from the United States. He lost to Bessik Serodinowitsch Kuduchow from Russia and Kenichi Yumoto from Japan at this championship.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Result
1999	25th	Junior World Championships (Cadets) in Lodz	up to 50 kg	Winner: Sushil Kumar , India ahead of Batraz Tidijew, Russia and Majid Roudbari, Iran
2001	19th	Junior World Championships in Tashkent	To fly	after losing to Murad Dschumabaev, Kazakhstan and So Kwang, North Korea
2001	4th	Mediterranean Games in Tunis	To fly	behind Amiran Kartanow , Greece , Firas Al Ali Rifaee, Syria and Muhyettin Uzun, Turkey
2003	24.	Junior World Championships in Istanbul	feather	after defeating Lee So-young, South Korea and losing to Adrian Mazan, Poland and Anisim Talambat, Moldova
2004	12.	EM in Ankara	feather	after losing to Abil Ibragimow, Azerbaijan and Wasil Fedorischin , Ukraine
2005	2.	EM in Varna	feather	after victories over Vitas Schumakow, Lithuania , Valerios Koguaschwili, Greece, Gergely Szabo, Hungary and Murad Ramasanow , Macedonia and a defeat against Wasil Fedorishin
2005	3.	Mediterranean Games	feather	behind Hassan Ibrahim Madani, Egypt and Tevfik Odabasi , Turkey
2005	25th	World Cup in Budapest	feather	after a loss to Baurshan Orasgaliev, Kazakhstan
2006	13.	EM in Moscow	feather	after losing to Petru Toarca, Romania
2006	1.	Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid	feather
2006	5.	Grand Prix of Germany in Leipzig	feather	behind Gergő Wöller , Hungary, Alexander Kropf and Stephan Spengler, bde. Germany and Aljaksandr Kantojeu , Belarus
2006	12.	World Cup in Guangzhou	feather	after beating Sond Jae-myung, South Korea and losing to Noriyuki Taketsuka, Japan
2006	2.	Henri Deglane Tournament in Nice	feather
2007	16.	EM in Sofia	feather	after a loss to Murad Ramasanov
2007	36.	World Cup in Baku	feather	after losing to Qin He, China
2008	2.	EM in Tampere	feather	after victories over Samet Dülger , Germany, Gheorghe Bucur , Romania a. Gergő Wöller and a loss to Wasil Fedorischin
2008	18th	Olympic qualification tournament in Martigny	feather	Winner: Yandro Miguel Quintana Ribalta , Cuba ahead of Selimchan Husseinow , Azerbaijan
2008	10.	Olympic qualification tournament in Warsaw	feather	Winner: Kenichi Yumoto , Japan ahead of Kim Jong-dae, South Korea
2009	9.	EM in Vilnius	feather	after defeating Magomedkamil Magomedow, Belarus and losing to Malchaz Kurdiani, Georgia
2009	7th	Mediterranean Games in Pescara	feather	Winner: Hassan Ibrahim Madani ahead of Mustafa Kartal, Turkey
2009	18th	World Cup in Herning / Denmark	feather	after losing to Maikel Antonio Perez Gonzalez, Cuba
2010	10.	EM in Baku	feather	after a loss to Aljaksandr Kantojeu, Belarus
2010	3.	German Grand Prix in Dortmund	feather	behind Philipp Herzog u. Michel Schneider, bde. Germany
2010	13.	World Cup in Moscow	feather	after a defeat against Bessik Serodinowitsch Kuduchow , Russia, a defeat against Artur Arakeljan, Armenia and a defeat against Ulan Nadyrbek Uulu, Mongolia
2011	7th	EM in Dortmund	feather	after victories over Vitas Schumakow, Lithuania and Aljaksandr Kantojeu and a defeat against Wasil Fedorishin
2011	2.	Italian Grand Prix in Sassari	Light	behind Gheorghe Bucur, in front of Ion Ceban, both Romania and Saurbek Chadijiew, France
2011	20th	Ziolkowski Memorial in Poznan	feather	Winner: Vladimir Dubow ahead of Rasul Murtasalijew, both from Russia
2011	5.	World Cup in Istanbul	feather	after victories over Vincenzo Rizzotto, Italy, Tim Schleicher , Germany and Reece Humphrey, USA and defeats against Besik Seradinowitsch Kuduchow and Kenichi Yumoto

French championships

Didier Païs was the French featherweight senior free style champion in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011. In 2000, 2002 and 2003 he was also French junior champion in free style in fly, bantam and featherweight.

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Flyweight, until 2002 up to 54 kg, bantam weight, until 2002 up to 58 kg, featherweight since 2003 up to 60 kg, lightweight, since 2003 up to 66 kg body weight

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Foeldeak Wrestling Database website
• French Wrestling Federation website (www.fflutte.com)

Web links

Fight of Didier Païs (red) against Murad Ramasanow (blue) at the 2007 European Championships