Gennady Vladimirovich Korban

Gennady Korban

Gennadi Korban medal table
Wrestler
Soviet Union
Olympic games
gold	1980 Moscow	medium
World Championship
gold	1979 San Diego	medium
gold	1981 Oslo	medium
European Championship
gold	1980 Prievidza	medium
gold	1981 Gothenburg	medium

Gennadi Wladimirowitsch Korban ( Russian Геннадий Владимирович Корбан ; born February 9, 1949 in Engels ) is a former Soviet wrestler . He was Olympic gold medalist in the Greco-Roman style in Moscow in 1980 .

Career

Gennadi Korban comes from Engels in the Soviet Union. As a teenager he started wrestling without first being able to draw attention to himself. He joined the Soviet Army and found good training conditions there. Nevertheless, it was not until he was 30 years old before he became the first Soviet middleweight champion in the Greco-Roman style. It must be pointed out, however, that the range of top talent in wrestling in the Soviet Union was enormous. In 1979 Gennady managed to defeat the world champions of previous years Anatoli Nasarenko and Vladimir Cheboksarov and qualify for the World Cup in San Diego . He started a short but extremely successful international career there. In San Diego he immediately became world champion with five overwhelming victories.

He confirmed this success in a convincing way in the following year 1980. First Gennadi was European champion in Prievidza , Slovakia , where he had to endure a very tough battle against the Romanian Ion Draica , which went unrecognized, and then he also won the gold medal in Moscow at the Olympic Games. Jan Dolgowicz from Poland and Pawel Pawlow from Bulgaria were his toughest opponents on the way to Olympic victory, but he was sure to score them.

In the following year 1981 Gennadi again won the European championship and in the autumn of the year the world championship. He played twelve fights in these two tournaments, all of which he won, although he was opposed by the world-class wrestlers Momir Petkovic , Ion Draica , Jan Dolgowicz , Pawel Pawlow , Leif Andersson and Sören Claesson . Gennady beat them all.

After these victories, Gennadi Korban did not contest any other international championships. In 28 fights at international championships he had won 27 times. At the national level, he wrestled for a few more years and was even Soviet middleweight champion again in 1983.

After his wrestling career, he continued to live as a soldier in the Soviet Union, but moved to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1991 . Although he was over 40 years old, he started successfully for KSV Köllerbach in the wrestling Bundesliga for a few years and is now a coach there.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1973	2.	"Wladyslaw Pytlasinksi" tournament in Warsaw	Welter	behind Stanislaw Krzesinksi , Poland a . before Wojda, Poland a. Klaus-Peter Göpfert , GDR
1973	1.	Universities World Cup in Moscow	Welter	before J. Hornyak, Hungary and V. Tabacki, Yugoslavia
1978	1.	"Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Minsk	medium	before Leif Andersson, Sweden and Pawel Pawlow, Bulgaria
1979	1.	"Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Minsk	medium	before Uminski, USSR a . Christow, Bulgaria
1979	1.	World Cup in San Diego	medium	with victories over Miklós Hegedűs , Hungary , Atusi Iazawa, Japan , Kai Jägersgaard, Denmark , Ion Draica , Romania , Momir Petkovic , Yugoslavia and others. Pavel Pavlov , Bulgaria
1980	2.	Intern. Tournament in Västerås	medium	behind Aslan Schanimow, USSR, in front of Leif Andersson
1980	1.	EM in Prievidza	medium	with victories over Miroslav Janota , Czechoslovakia , Mihaly Tomas, Hungary, Pawlow u. Leif Andersson , Sweden ; In the fight Korban against Draica both wrestlers were disqualified for passivity, which led to Draica's elimination
1980	gold	OS in Moscow	medium	with victories over Mihaly Tomas, Mohammad Eloulabi, Egypt , Detlef Kuhn, GDR , Jan Dolgowicz , Poland a . Pavel Pavlov
1980	2.	World Cup tournament in Trelleborg	medium	behind Leif Andersson u. before Phil Lanzatella, USA a . Kazuhiro Takanishi, Japan
1981	1.	Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg	medium	before Jan Dolgowicz, Leif Andersson, Nihaly Tomas, Ion Draica a. Siegfried Seibold , FRG
1981	1.	EM in Gothenburg	medium	with victories over Peter Danner, Austria , Leif Andersson, Mikko Huhtala , Finland , Pawel Pawlow, Ion Draica u. Jan Dolgowics
1981	1.	World Cup in Oslo	medium	with victories over PawelPawlow, Jan Dolgowicz, Atusi Iazawa, Sören Claesson , Sweden, Ion Draica u. Moimir Petkovic

Soviet championships

year	space	Weight class	Results
1977	3.	Welter	behind Iosif Berishvili and Awo Talpas
1978	4th	medium	behind Awo Talpas, M. Leschawa and Iosif Berishvili
1979	1.	medium	before Teimuras Apchasawa and Valeri Chuchonlujew
1980	1.	medium	before Teimuras Apchasawa and Valeri Chuchonlujew
1981	3.	medium	behind Aslan Shanimov and Vyacheslav Mkrtyshev
1982	2.	medium	behind Aslan Shanimov and in front of Teimuras Apchasawa
1983	1.	medium	before Valeri Chuchonlujew and Alexander Baranow

Explanations

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Welter weight, then up to 74 kg, mean weight up to 82 kg

literature

• 1) Documentation of Wrestling Championships of the FILA, 1976
• 2) various issues of the trade journal "Der Ringer" from 1979 to 1981 and 1991 to 1994

Web links

• Profile of Gennadi Korban at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Gennadi Korban in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Gennadi Korban Season 2018/19