Igor Vladimirovich Kanygin
| Igor Kanygin medal table |
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|---|---|---|
| Soviet Union | ||
| Olympic games | ||
| silver | 1980 Moscow | Semi-difficult |
| World Championship | ||
| gold | 1981 Oslo | Semi-difficult |
| bronze | 1982 Katowice | Semi-difficult |
| gold | 1983 Kiev | Semi-difficult |
| silver | 1985 Kolbotn | Semi-difficult |
| European Championship | ||
| gold | 1980 Prievidza | Semi-difficult |
| gold | 1982 Varna | Semi-difficult |
| gold | 1983 Budapest | Semi-difficult |
| silver | 1984 Jönköping | Semi-difficult |
| gold | 1985 Leipzig | Semi-difficult |
Igor Kanygin ( Russian Игорь Владимирович Каныгин * 6. June 1956 in Vitebsk ) is a former Soviet wrestler . He became world champion in the Greco-Roman style in 1981 and 1983 in the light heavyweight division
Career
Igor Kanygin began in 1968 at a sports school in Vitebsk with the rings . With great enthusiasm for training, he fought his way forward step by step until he was accepted into the Soviet national wrestling team in 1978. His Vitebsk trainer Vladimir Isapolski, who looked after him for many years, earned the greatest credit for this. Igor Kanygin was an extremely tough and tough, but always fair wrestler who didn't look so strong on the outside. He had his first appearance at an international championship in 1978 at the European Championships in Oslo , where he, however - had to pay dearly when he started his first two fights against - surprising for a Soviet wrestler Petre Dicu from Romania and Czeslaw Kwieciński from Poland lost and was eliminated .
After these defeats he was only used again at the 1980 European Championships in Prievidza , after he had proven to be the best light heavyweight wrestler in the country at some championships in the Soviet Union . In Prievidza, Igor became European champion in a convincing manner, defeating the favored world champion Frank Andersson from Sweden , with whom he was to fight many tough battles, in the first round. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow he had to be content with the silver medal when the Hungarian Norbert Növényi defeated him in the final and won the gold medal.
At the World Cup in Oslo in 1981, Igor Kanygin won his first world title. In the final he again beat Frank Andersson on points.
In 1982 Igor was again European champion in Varna ahead of Frank Andersson. At the world championship of the same year in Katowice , he finished third. This time Frank Andersson was the winner.
1983 was to be the most successful year for Igor. He was European champion in Budapest in spring and world champion in Kiev in autumn . Both times he defeated the Bulgarian Atanas Komchev on points in the final . However, he surprisingly lost to him in the final of the 1984 European Championships in Jönköping . At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles Igor Kanygin could not attend because of the boycott of these Games by the socialist states.
1985 was the last year of great international success for Igor Kanygin. He became European light heavyweight champion in Leipzig with no missing point. Atanas Komchev was not at the start. At the world championship of the same year in Kolbotn, Norway, Igor lost on points against Michael Houck , an American who was not so strongly wrestling until then and who became world champion.
1986 Igor Kanygin was used neither in the European Championship nor in the World Championship, but won an international high-class World Cup tournament in Oak Lawns in the USA that year . In 1987 he started a weight class higher in the heavyweight division at the European Championships in Tampere and finished in 5th place. When he only finished 9th in a FILA tournament that year, his international wrestling career was over.
Igor Kanygin trained as a wrestling coach and was a coach at a Vitebsk wrestling club for many years. In 2002 he moved to Denmark and has been a trainer at the wrestling club " Thor " Nyköbing ever since .
Igor Kanygin was also well known in the Federal Republic of Germany . He started several times with great success at the Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg and Freiburg im Breisgau .
International success
| year | space | competition | Weight class | Results |
| 1978 | 1. | Klippan tournament | Semi-difficult | before Keiji Manni, Finland and Frank Andersson, Sweden |
| 1978 | 9. | EM in Oslo | Semi-difficult | after losing to Petre Dicu , Romania and Czesław Kwieciński , Poland |
| 1980 | 1. | EM in Prievidza | Semi-difficult | with victories over Frank Andersson , Sweden , Ladislaw Bojko, CSSR and Stojan Nikolow, Bulgaria; in the fight between Kanygin and Dicu both wrestlers were disqualified, which had no negative effects for Kanygin |
| 1980 | silver | OS in Moscow | Semi-difficult | after victories over Stojan Iwanow, Bulgaria, Czeslaw Kwieciński and Frank Andersson and defeats against Petre Dicu and Norbert Növényi , Hungary |
| 1981 | 1. | Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Aschaffenburg | Semi-difficult | before Alexander Dubrowski, USSR, Christer Gullden, Sweden, Frank Andersson, Franz Pitschmann, Austria and Zbigniew Tobejko, Poland |
| 1981 | 1. | World Cup in Oslo | Semi-difficult | with victories over Iwan Petrow, Bulgaria, Michael Houck , USA , Jose Poll, Cuba , Janos Fodor, Romania and Frank Andersson |
| 1982 | 1. | EM in Varna | Semi-difficult | before Frank Andersson, Atanas Komtschew , Bulgaria, Ilie Matei , Romania, Georgios Pozidis, Greece and Kopas, Yugoslavia |
| 1982 | 1. | Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Freiburg im Breisgau | Semi-difficult | before Valeri Dolgich, USSR , Uwe Sachs , FRG, Pedro Pawlidis , FRG, Steve Fraser , USA and Georgios Pozidis, Greece |
| 1982 | 3. | World Cup in Katowice | Semi-difficult | behind Frank Andersson and Atanas Komtschew and in front of Ilie Matei, Jindrich Durcak, CSSR and Boguslaw Dabrowski, Poland |
| 1982 | 1. | World Cup tournament in Budapest | Semi-difficult | before Norbert Növenyi and Franz Pitschmann , Austria |
| 1983 | 2. | Klippan tournament | Semi-difficult | behind Atanas Komtschew, in front of Frank Andersson, Waleri Dolgich, Jan Dolgowics, Poland and Lars-Erik Nilsson, Sweden |
| 1983 | 1. | EM in Budapest | Semi-difficult | before Atanas Komtschew, Ilie Matei, Norbert Növenyi, Uwe Neupert , GDR and Bernhard Ban, Yugoslavia |
| 1983 | 1. | World Cup in Kiev | Semi-difficult | before Atanas Komtschew, Norbert Növeny, Georgios Pozidis, Ilie Matei and Jindrich Durcak |
| 1984 | 1. | Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Freiburg im Breisgau | Semi-difficult | before Uwe Sachs , FRG, Ilie Matei and Franz Marx, Austria |
| 1984 | 2. | EM in Jönköping | Semi-difficult | after victories over Csaba Majoros, Yugoslavia, Bogdan Daras , Poland, Georgios Pozidis and Lajos Herczeg, Hungary and a defeat against Atanas Komtschew |
| 1984 | 1. | World Cup tournament in Seinäjoki | Semi-difficult | before Toni Hannula, Finland, Atanas Komtschew, Steve Fraser, Salah, Egypt and Muto, Japan |
| 1985 | 1. | EM in Leipzig | Semi-difficult | with victories over Court, France , Kefalas, Greece, Herczeg and Hannula, Finland |
| 1985 | 1. | Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Aschaffenburg | Semi-difficult | before Franz Pitschmann, Uwe Sachs, Reiner Weber, FRG, Bakker, Netherlands and Spiaschwili, Israel |
| 1985 | 2. | World Cup in Kolbotn / Norway | Semi-difficult | behind Michael Houck , USA, in front of Atanas Komtschew, Ilie Matei, Bogdan Merkiel, Poland and Frank Andersson |
| 1985 | 1. | World Super Championship (unofficial) in Tokyo | Semi-difficult | before Steve Fraser , USA and Tam Higashide, Japan |
| 1986 | 1. | World Cup tournament in Oak Lawns / USA, GR | Heavy | before Dennis Koslowski , USA, Tamás Gáspár , Hungary and Héctor Milián , Cuba |
| 1987 | 5. | EM in Tampere | Heavy | behind Ilja Wassiliew, Bulgaria, Vasile Andrei , Romania, Jörg Kotte , GDR, Jozef Tertelj , Yugoslavia and in front of Keji Manni, Finland |
| 1987 | 9. | FILA Grand Prix Gala in Budapest | Heavy | Winner: Vasile Andrei in front of Ilja Wassiliew and Dennis Koslowski |
Soviet championships
| year | space | Weight class | Results |
| 1980 | 1. | Semi-difficult | before Sergej Golubowitsch and Nikolai Ruchtin |
| 1981 | 2. | Semi-difficult | behind Alexander Dubrowski , in front of R. Samaldinov |
| 1982 | 1. | Semi-difficult | before Valeri Dolgich and Valentin Tschebrukow |
| 1983 | 3. | Semi-difficult | behind Valentin Chebrukov and Valery Zhdanov |
| 1984 | 1. | Semi-difficult | before Vladimir Popov and Chavas-Bautin Mulayev |
| 1987 | 1. | Semi-difficult | before Guram Gedechauri and Roman Belkin |
| 1988 | 3. | Heavy | behind Anatoly Fedorenko and Guram Gedechauri |
- Explanations
- all competitions in Greco-Roman style
- OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
- Lightweight at that time up to 90 kg and heavyweight up to 100 kg body weight
literature
- 1) Various editions of the journal Der Ringer from 1978 to 1987
- 2) Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
Web links
- Profile of Igor Kanygin at the Institute for Applied Training Science
- Igor Wladimirowitsch Kanygin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Portrait of Igor Kanygin
- Fight of Igor Kanygin (red) against Mike Houck (blue) at the 1985 World Cup
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kanygin, Igor Vladimirovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kanygin, Igor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vitebsk |