Ivan Abajiev

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Ivan Nikolov Abadzhiev ( Bulgarian Иван Николов Абаджиев , English transcription Ivan Nikolov Abadzhiev ; born February 12, 1932 in Novi Pasar ; † March 24, 2017 in Germany ) was a Bulgarian weightlifter and trainer .

Career

Career as a weightlifter

Ivan Abajiev started lifting weights in 1953 at the age of 21. He made rapid progress and achieved a very good result in the lightweight category at the 1955 World Championships in Munich (up to 67.5 kg body weight at that time). At the 1957 World Championships in Tehran , he was runner-up in the lightweight world championship. This was his biggest international success as an active weight lifter. After the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, he ended his career in weightlifting.

Career as a coach

After the end of his active career, Ivan Abajev began training as a coach. He was head coach of the Bulgarian Weightlifting Association from 1968 to 1989 and from 1997 to 2000. As such, he was extremely successful and led the Bulgarian weightlifters to the top of the world within a few years.

Training philosophy

Abajiev takes an extreme stance on the training of his athletes. He is of the opinion that the auxiliary exercises, such as any kind of moves or modifications of the competition disciplines, do not bring any benefit for the further development of the athlete. That is why Abajev limits the training to the two competition disciplines of snatching and pushing and the front squat to build strength.

Doping issue

During the time when Abajev was responsible, several weightlifters were disqualified for doping ; including Valentin Christow and Blagoj Blagojew , disqualified as Olympic champions and silver medalists in Montreal in 1976 , as well as Mitko Grablew and Angel Gentschew , disqualified as Olympic champions in 1988 in Seoul .

In the period that followed, Bulgarian Olympic champions, world and European doping champions were repeatedly convicted ( Sewdalin Mintschew , Sewdalin Marinow , Iwan Iwanow , Isabela Dragnewa , Milena Trendafilowa ) or other forms of fraud such as giving foreign urine during doping controls were detected ( Slatan Wanew , Georgi Markow , Galabin Bojewski ), whereby the multiple world and Olympic champion Bojewski was even exposed twice as a doping offender and banned for eight years. For this reason, Abajiev's successes as a trainer must be viewed in a differentiated manner.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Le = lightweight, Wed = middleweight)

  • 1955, 7th place ( 4th place ), WM + EM in Munich , Le, with 432.5 kg, winner: Nikolai Kostylew , USSR , 382.5 kg, ahead of Said Gouda , Egypt , 365 kg;
  • 1956, 1st place , tournament in Bucharest , Le, with 342.5 kg, ahead of Eberhard Hatt, GDR , 325 kg and Tiberiu Roman, Romania , 190 kg;
  • 1956, 7th place , OS in Melbourne , Le, with 357.5 kg, winner: Igor Rybak , USSR, 380 kg, ahead of Rafael Schabutinow , USSR, 372.5 kg;
  • 1957, 3rd place , Grand Prix of the USSR in Moscow , La, with 355 kg, behind Viktor Buschujew , USSR, 385 kg and Huan Tschan Ju, China , 367.5 kg;
  • 1957, 2nd place , World Championships in Tehran , Le, with 372.5 kg, behind Buschujew, 380 kg and in front of Jan Czepułkowski , Poland , 365 kg;
  • 1958, 4th place, Grand Prix of the USSR in Moscow, Le, with 365 kg, behind Juan Tschan Ju, 382.5 kg, Buschujew, 382.5 kg and Kostylev, 370 kg;
  • 1958, 5th place ( 4th place ), WM + EM in Stockholm , Le, with 342.5 kg, behind Buschujew, 390 kg, Luciano de Genova, Italy , 362.5 kg, Henryk Tamraz, Iran , 357.5 kg and Josef Tauchner , Austria , 347.5 kg;
  • 1960, 8th place , EM in Milan , Le, with 340 kg, winner: Marian Zielinski , Poland, 377.5 kg ahead of Mustafa Jagly-Ogly , USSR, 375 kg;
  • 1960, 12th place , OS in Rome , Wed with 370 kg, winner: Alexander Kurynow , USSR, 437.5 kg ahead of Thomas Kono , USA, 427.5 kg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike Graber: Ivan Abadjiev, Legendary Weightlifting Coach, Passes Away at 85. In: barbend.com. March 25, 2017, accessed March 25, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Abajiev, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Абаджиев, Иван Николов; Abajiev, Ivan Nikolov (full name); Abadzhiev, Ivan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian weightlifter and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Nowi Pasar
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2017
Place of death Germany