Eduard Popp

Eduard Popp medal table
Eduard Popp
Wrestler
Germany
Military World Championship
silver	2016 Skopje	up to 130 kg
Junior World Championship
bronze	2010 Budapest	up to 120 kg Juniors
Junior European Championship
bronze	2009 Tbilisi	up to 120 kg Juniors

Eduard Popp (born June 16, 1991 in Barnaul , Altai region , Russia ) is a German wrestler .

Career

Eduard Popp came to Germany in his youth and began wrestling at VfL Neckargartach . As an adult, he weighs around 130 kg at a height of 1.90 meters and starts in the heavyweight division. He focuses on the Greco-Roman style. He is or was mainly trained by Markus Makamul and Michael Carl. He is married and has two children. He was commercial. Employee, but now belongs to a sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr. In the Ringer Bundesliga he wrestles for the Red Devils Heilbronn .

In the junior division, Eduard Popp won the German championship title in 2005 (B-Youth), 2007 and 2008 (A-Youth) and 2011 (Juniors) (weight classes up to 100 kg and up to 120 kg body weight).

In the senior class, he first started in 2011 at a German championship. He took 4th place in the weight class up to 120 kg. In 2012 he came third in the same weight class at the German championship behind Nico Schmidt, RSV Frankfurt (Oder) and Ralf Böhringer, VfK Schifferstadt. Eduard Popp became German champion in 2013 (up to 120 kg), 2014, 2015 and 2019 (up to 130 kg each).

He began his international wrestling career with a start at the Junior European Championship (Cadets) 2007 in Warsaw in the weight class up to 100 kg body weight. He had to be content with a 16th place. In 2009 he won a bronze medal at the Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Tbilisi in the weight class up to 120 kg behind Riza Kayaalp , Turkey, and Dawid Oganesjan, Russia. He won the same medal at the 2010 Junior World Championships in Budapest in the weight class up to 120 kg.

In March 2013 Eduard Popp started for the first time in an international championship among seniors. In Tbilisi he defeated Balint Lam from Hungary in the weight class up to 120 kg, but lost in his next fight against Ljubomir Dimitrov from Bulgaria and came in 8th place. At the 2013 World Cup in Budapest, Eduard Popp defeated Vachagan Yeghiasarjan from Armenia and Levan Arabuli, Georgia. In his next fight he was defeated by former world champion Amir Aliakbari from Iran, who had just returned from a two-year doping ban . Then he also lost to Johan Eurén from Sweden, which he eliminated and finished in 7th place. During a follow-up check of the doping samples it was found that Amir Aliakbari had been doped again. The medal he won was revoked and he was banned for life. Admittedly, it didn't help Eduard Popp, because the world championship was long over.

In the following years Eduard Popp started regularly at world and European championships. He fought for many excellent placements, but has not yet won a medal. In 2014 he came in the world championship in Tashkent in the weight class up to 130 kg on an excellent 5th place, beaten only by Mijain Lopez Nunez from Cuba and Biljal Machow from Russia. Popp also took an excellent 5th place at the 2016 European Championships in Riga. Here he was defeated in the battle for one of the bronze medals against Ioseb Tschugoschwili from Belarus.

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, he defeated Nurmachan Tinalijew from Kazakhstan and Bashir Asgari Babajanzadeh from Iran, lost to Riza Kayaalp from Turkey and in the battle for a bronze medal against Sabah Shariati from Azerbaijan, whom he had recently won at the European Championships had defeated.

At the 2016 Military World Cup in Skopje, Eduard Popp only lost in the final against former world champion Heiki Nabi from Estonia.

At the 2017 World Championships in Paris, he won over Naveen Naveen from India and Alin Alexuc-Ciurariu from Romania, before losing to Oscar Pino Hinds from Cuba and finishing in 9th place.

At the 2018 World Cup in Budapest, Eduard Popp won over the African champion Abdellatif Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed from Egypt and Balint Lam, but then lost to Adam Coon from the United States. In the consolation round he won against the Chinese Meng Lingzhe, but lost in the fight for one of the bronze medals against the South Korean Kim Min-seok just on points.

At the 2019 World Cup in Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan) Eduard Popp was able to convince. He won there over Beka Kandelaki from Azerbaijan and Abdfellatif Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed, before he lost to Riza Kayaalp and in the battle for one of the bronze medals against Iakobi Kajaia from Georgia and again took 5th place. He qualified early for participation in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Eduard Popp has once again proven that he belongs to the world's heavyweight elite.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2007	16.	Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Warsaw	up to 100 kg	Winner: Wasil Imerlishvili, Georgia ahead of Alin Alexu-Ciurariu, Romania
2008	12.	Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Daugavpils	up to 100 kg	Winner: Islam Magomedow, Russia ahead of Bayram Nigar, Turkey
2009	3.	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Tbilisi	up to 120 kg	behind Riza Kayaalp, Turkey and Dawid Oganesjan, Russia, together with Taisto Lalli, Finland
2009	9.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Ankara	up to 120 kg	Winner: Riza Kayaalp
2010	11.	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Samokow	up to 120 kg	Winner: Dawid Oganesjan ahead of Lyubomir Dimitrov, Bulgaria
2010	3.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Budapest	up to 120 kg	after victories over Vachagan Yeghiasarjan, Armenia, David Lengyel, Slovakia and Murat Ramonow, Kyrgyzstan, a defeat against Igor Didyk, Ukraine and a victory over Sergo Gogiaswanidze, Georgia
2011	10.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Bucharest	up to 120 kg	after a victory over Miloslaw Metodiew, Bulgaria and defeats against Shota Gogioswanidze, Georgia and Igor Didyk
2013	8th.	EM in Tbilisi	up to 120 kg	after a victory over Balint Lam, Hungary and a loss to Ljubomir Dimitrov
2013	7th	World Cup in Budapest	up to 120 kg	after victories over Vachagan Yeghiasarjan and Levan Arabuli, Georgia and defeats against Amir Aliakbari , Iran and Johan Euren, Sweden
2014	13.	EM in Vantaa	up to 130 kg	after losing to Johan Euren
2014	5.	World Cup in Tashkent	up to 130 kg	after a victory over Vachagan Yeghiasarjan, a defeat against Mijain Lopez Nunez , Cuba, victories over Muradjan Tuichijew, Tajikistan and Behnam Mehdizadeh Arpatapeh, Iran and a defeat against Biljal Machow , Russia
2015	8th.	European Games in Baku	up to 130 kg	after a victory over Mantas Knystautas, Lithuania and a defeat against Ioseb Tschugoschwili, Belarus
2015	13.	World Cup in Las Vegas	up to 130 kg	after defeating Nurmachan Tinaliyev and losing to Robert Smith, USA
2016	5.	EM in Riga	up to 130 kg	after victories over Nemanja Pavlovic, Serbia and Edgan Chachazjan, Armenia, a defeat against Alexander Chernetsky, Ukraine, a victory over Sabah Shariati, Azerbaijan and a defeat against Ioseb Chugoshvili
2016	2.	Olympic qualification tournament in Zrenjanin	up to 130 kg	after victories over Tamas Soos, Slovakia, Mindaugas Mizgaitis, Lithuania and Sandor Dichaminjia, Georgia and a defeat against Heiki Nabi, Estonia
2016	1.	"Wladyslaw-Pytlasinski" memorial in Spala / Poland	up to 130 kg	before Armin Majoros, Hungary, Meng Qiang, China and Bashir Asgari Babajanzadeh, Iran
2016	3.	German Grand Prix in Dortmund	up to 130 kg	behind Riza Kayaalp and Vitali Schtschur, Russia, together with Mantas Knystautas, Lithuania
2016	5.	OS in Rio de Janeiro	up to 130 kg	after victories over Nurmachan Tinalijew and Bashir Asgari Babajanzadeh and defeats against Riza Kayaalp and Sabah Shariati
2016	2.	Military World Cup in Skopje	up to 130 kg	behind Heiki Nabi, in front of Alexander Tschernezki and Mindaugas Mizgaitis
2017	9.	World Cup in Paris	up to 130 kg	after victories over Naveen Naveen, India and Alin Alexuc-Ciurariu and a loss to Oscar Pino Hinds, Cuba
2018	5.	World Cup in Budapest	up to 130 kg	after victories over Abdellatif Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed, Egypt and Balint Lam, a defeat against Adam Coon, USA, a victory over Meng Lingzhe, China and a defeat against Kim Min-seok, South Korea
2019	2.	Thor Masters in Nyköbing	up to 130 kg	behind Nikolai Kuchmiy, Ukraine, in front of Konsta Johannes Määnenpää and Tuomas Lahti, Finland
2019	11.	EM in Bucharest	up to 130 kg	after a loss to Heiki Nabi
2019	2.	German Grand Prix in Dortmund	up to 130 kg	behind Konsta Johannes Määäää, Finland, in front of Vitali Schtschur, Russia and Balint Lam
2019	5.	World Cup in Nur-Sultan	up to 130 kg	after victories over Beka Kandelaki, Azerbaijan and Abdellatif Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed and defeats against Riza Kayaalp and Iakobi Kajaia, Georgia

German championships

year	space	Weight class	Results
2011	4th	up to 120 kg	behind Nico Schmidt, RSV Frankfurt (Oder), Ralf Böhringer, VfK 07 Schifferstadt and Christian John, Eisenhüttenstadter RC
2012	3.	up to 120 kg	behind Nico Schmidt and Ralf Böhringer, together with Mehmet Kasim Aras, TV Aachen-Walheim
2013	1.	up to 120 kg	in front of Ricardo Melz, SV Luftfahrt Berlin, Sascha Iannacone, ASV Au / Hallertau and Kevin Arend, KV Riegelsberg
2014	1.	up to 130 kg	in front of Mehmet Kasim Aras, Robin Ferdinand, ASV Boden and Christian John
2015	1.	up to 130 kg	in front of Mehmet Kasim Aras, ASV Mainz 88, Robin Ferdinand and Christian John
2019	1.	up to 130 kg	in front of Jello Krahmer , ASV Schorndorf, Patrick Schwendemann, VfK Mühlenbach and Marc Bohnert, RWG Mömbris-Königshofen

Explanations

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship

literature

• Trade journal Der Rintger

Web links

• Eduard Popp in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Eduard Popp at the International Olympic Committee
• Profile of Eduard Popp at the Institute for Applied Training Science