Eerik Aps

Eerik Aps (born October 22, 1987 ) is an Estonian wrestler .

Career

Eerik Aps started wrestling at the age of seven. He prefers the Greco-Roman style. Aps is a member of the "Nelson" Tallinn sports club and was or is trained by Igor Annus and Henn Põlluste. He has been one of the best Estonian young wrestlers in the junior division since 1998, and this year he took third place at the Estonian school championships.

In the years from 2001 to 2007 he won a total of eight Estonian junior championships in the respective age groups and in different weight classes. In 2007 and 2008 he was also Estonian senior welterweight champion.

Since 2003 Eerik Aps has also regularly participated in international junior championships. The best result he achieved was a 5th place at the Junior World Championships 2006 in Guatemala City , where he finished an excellent 5th place in the welterweight division with two wins and two losses.

In 2007 he started at a senior world championship for the first time. But he lost in Baku in his first fight against the Finnish ex-world champion and veteran Markku Yli-Hannuksela , with which he was eliminated and only placed in 40th place. He did much better at the European Seniors Championships in Tampere in 2008 . He defeated there in the welterweight division Ionel Puscas from Romania a . Aljaksandr Kikinjou from Belarus , but failed in the quarter-finals to Julian Kwit from Poland and finished in 7th place. Eerik Aps failed to qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in two qualifying tournaments.

In 2009 Eerik Aps moved to the middleweight division. At the European Championships this year in Vilnius he achieved the most valuable result of his career so far with a 5th place in this weight class. On the way to this success he was defeated by the Russian ex-world champion Alexei Mishin just on points, but defeated the silver medalist from Beijing middleweight the Hungarian Zoltán Fodor on points. In the battle for the bronze medal he was defeated by the Ukrainian Vitaly Lishchinsky on points.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
2003	12.	Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Rostov	up to 63 kg body weight	Winner: Georgi Tonkow, Bulgaria
2004	8th.	Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Albena / Bulgaria	up to 69 kg body weight	Winner: Arsen Julfalakjan , Armenia ahead of Dimitri Arabaji, Ukraine
2005	14th	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Vilnius	Welter	with a victory over Wladislaw Lukasevic, Latvia a . a loss to Georgi Popschadze, Russia
2006	15th	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Szombathely	Welter	Winner: Dimitri Psychow, Ukraine ahead of Mehmet Uemit Bedel, Turkey a . Arsen Julfalakyan
2006	5.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Guatemala City	Welter	with a win over Andrew Bisek, USA , a defeat against Mehmet Uemit Bedel, a win over Alamchan Saidow, Kazakhstan u. a loss to Dimitri Psydchow
2007	21st	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Belgrade	Welter	Winner: Emrath Wo, Turkey ahead of Magomaed Aschchabow, Russia a. Damian Hartmann, Germany
2007	21st	Junior World Championships in Beijing	Welter	after a loss to Magomed Ashkhabov
2007	40.	World Cup in Baku	Welter	after a loss to Marko Yli-Hannuksela , Finland
2008	7th	EM in Tampere	Welter	with victories over Ionel Pusca, Romania a . Aljaksandr Kikinjou , Belarus a . a loss to Julian Kwit , Poland
2008	8th.	Olympic qualification tournament in Ostia near Rome	Welter	Winner: Manuchar K Wirkwelia , Georgia ahead of Ilgar Abdulow , Azerbaijan
2008	25th	Olympic qualification tournament in Novi Sad	Welter	Winner: Volodymyr Schazkych , Ukraine ahead of Aljaksandr Kikinjou
2009	5.	EM in Vilnius	medium	with a victory over Andrei Baranowski, Belarus, a defeat against Alexei Mishin , Russia, a victory over Zoltán Fodor , Hungary a. a loss to Vitaly Lishchinsky , Ukraine

Note: all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, welterweight, up to 74 kg a. Average weight up to 84 kg body weight

swell

• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
• Trade journal Der Ringer,
• Website "www.nelsonmk.ee/eerikaps.htm

Web links

Profile of Eerik Aps at the Institute for Applied Training Science