Yuri Nikolayevich Patrikeev

Yuri Nikolajewitsch Patrikejew ( Russian Юрий Николаевич Патрикеев , Armenian Յուրի Նիկոլաևիչ Պատրիկեև ; born September 28, 1979 in Kirovo-Chepetsk ) is a Russian wrestler who started or starts first for Russia and then for Armenia . He became European heavyweight champion in the Greco-Roman style in 2002, 2004 and 2008.

Career

Yuri Patrikeev, a young Russian, began wrestling in 1986. His coaches were or are Igor Ivanov and Samuel Geworkian. Yuri Patrikejew concentrates only on the Greco-Roman. Style. At a height of 1.87 m, he grew into the heavyweight class over time. He is a trained sports teacher.

Yuri Patrikeev began his career on the international wrestling mat when he was a junior, who is divided into the age groups Cadets (up to 18 years) and Juniors (up to 20 years). At the Junior World Championships (Cadets) in 1994 in Frankfort / USA he made his debut at the age of fifteen and took 3rd place in the weight class up to 83 kg body weight. A year later he was already Junior World Champion with the Cadets in the same weight class.

He started in the Juniors in 1998 at the European Championships in Tirana in the weight class up to 115 kg body weight. He came in third behind Dawid Saldadze from Ukraine and Roussos Iliakis from Greece . In his last junior year, he initially disappointed at the European Junior Championships in Budapest , when he only finished 9th there. He was all the more successful in the same year at the Junior World Championships in Bucharest , because he won the heavyweight world title there in front of Xenofon Koutsiabas , Greece, Eddy Bengtsson , Sweden and Georgi Tsurtsumia , Georgia , all three wrestlers with whom he was would often cross the blades even with the elderly.

In his first year as a senior in 2000, Alexander Karelin still dominated Russia . Yuri Patrikejew achieved a great success with 3rd place in the heavyweight division at the World Student Championship in Tokyo . In 2001, Yuri Patrikeev succeeded in establishing himself in Russia as the successor to Alexander Karelin, who resigned at the end of 2000. However, at the 2001 World Cup in Patras / Greece it became clear that it is not so easy for a newcomer to prevail in the heavyweight division. He won his first two fights in Patras, but lost in his third fight against the US Olympic champion of 2000 Rulon Gardner just by points (3: 4) and ended up in 8th place in the final result.

In 2002 Yuri Patrikejew then dominated his heavyweight competitors at the European Championships in Seinäjoki / Finland . He became European champion there with five victories, with his point victory in the final over the experienced Hungarian Mihály Deák Bárdos with 6-0 was very clear. At the world championship of the same year in Moscow , Yuri Patrikejew defeated Sergei Mureiko from Ukraine and Mijaín López Núñez from Cuba, two absolute top wrestlers, but lost in the rematch against Mihaly Deak Bardos with 1: 2 points and surprisingly also had to give Xenofon Koutsiabas defeat . He won the world championship bronze medal in the heavyweight division.

Already in 2003 Yuri Patrikejew got in Russia in the younger Chassan Barojew an extremely strong competitor, who defeated him in the Russian championship and thus secured the starting place in the European and world championships. Yuri Patrikejew came back to the 2004 European Championships in Haparanda and won his second European title with a final victory over the Ukrainian Konstantin Stryschak , but at the Olympic Games in Athens , Khassan Barojew started in the heavyweight division and won the gold medal .

In 2005, Yuri Patrikeev was in action at the European Championships in Varna . He disappointed there, however, because he lost his first fight against his feared opponent Xenofon Koutsioubas with 1: 3 points, was eliminated and only reached 11th place. After the Russian Wrestling Association fully relied on Chassan Barojew in 2006 and Yuri Patrikeev did not get a starting place at the international championships, Yuri Patrikeev decided to start for Armenia in the future. He became a member of the Kirovo Tschepesk wrestling club .

After a long break from competition, he competed for this country for the first time at the European Championships in Sofia in April 2007 . There he won his first fight against Ivan Ivanov from Bulgaria, but lost in his second fight against the Turks İsmail Güzel and only reached the 9th place. He was in much better shape at the 2007 World Cup in Baku . He suffered a point defeat there in the semi-finals of Mijaín López Núñez, but defeated Mihaly Deak Bardos 4-0 points in the fight for 3rd place.

In April 2008, Juri Patrikejew managed to win the third title at the European Championships in Tampere, Finland . He will have been particularly pleased that he defeated Chassan Barojew with 7: 1 points in the decisive final fight.

In 2009 Yuri Patrikejew won the heavyweight title again at the European Championships in Vilnius . He won the final battle over the Swede Jalmar Sjöberg . At the 2009 World Championships in Herning , he suffered a surprising defeat in his second fight by the Turk Rıza Kayaalp , with which he was eliminated and only finished 14th. In 2010 he took a break from the European Championships, but competed in the World Championships in Moscow . He fought his way up to the final, in which he was defeated by the multiple world champion Mijaín López .

In 2011, Yuri Patrikejew competed at the European Championships in Dortmund , where he won his bronze medal , his twelfth medal at an international championship. After a point defeat in the semifinals against Rıza Kayaalp from Turkey, he fought for this by beating Johan Eurén from Sweden , whom he defeated with 2-1 rounds (2-1 points). At this year's World Cup in Istanbul it was not enough to win a medal. After victories over Heiki Nabi from Estonia and Mesut Hashinzade from Azerbaijan, he lost there in the quarter-finals against Mijaín López and then in the consolation round against Johan Eurén (1: 2 rounds, 1: 2 points), so that he only finished 9th came.

At the Olympic Games in London in 2012, Yuri Patrikeev won his first fight over fellow favorite Chassan Barojew. But he lost his second fight against Bashir Asgari Babajanzadeh from Iran. Since this did not reach the final, he was eliminated and came in 8th place.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1994	3.	Junior World Championships (Cadets) in Frankfort / USA	up to 83 kg body weight)	behind Valeri Matwienko, Kazakhstan a . Dawid Saldadze , Ukraine
1995	1.	Junior World Championships (Cadets	up to 83 kg body weight	before Stanislaw Prochodowski, Belarus a . Daniel Cormier , USA
1998	3.	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Tirana	up to 115 kg body weight	behind Dawid Saldadze u. Roussos Iliakis, Greece , ahead of David Vála , Czech Republic a . Florin Ungureanu, Romania
1999	9.	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Budapest	Super heavy	Winner: Eddy Bengtsson , Sweden ahead of Andrei Tschekowski, Belarus a. Georgi Tsurtsumia , Georgia
1999	1.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Bucharest	Super heavy	before Xenofon Koutsiabas, Greece, Eddy Bengtsson, Georgi Tsurtsumia u. Viktor Privalishkin, Ukraine
2000	3.	World University Championships in Tokyo	Super heavy	behind Fatih Bakir , Turkey a . Andrei Tschekowski u. in front of Alireza Gharabi, Iran
2001	8th.	World Cup in Patras / Greece	Super heavy	with victories over Song Jidong, China a . Yogesh Dodke, India a . a loss to Rulon Gardner , USA
2002	1.	EM in Seinäjoki / Finland	Heavy	with victories over Dimitri Debelka , Belarus, Xonofon Koutsiabas, Roe Kleive, Norway , Juha Ahokas , Finland u. Mihály Deák Bárdos , Hungary
2002	3.	World Cup in Moscow	Heavy	with victories over Sergei Mureiko , Bulgaria , Mijaín López Núñez , Cuba a . Giuseppe Giunta , Italy a . Defeats to Mihaly Deak Bardos u. Xenofon Koutsiabas
2004	1.	EM in Haparanda	Heavy	with victories over Mindaugas Mizgaitis , Lithuania , Maikaz Galstjan, Armenia, Eddy Bengtsson, Sergei Mureiko u. Konstantin Stryschak , Ukraine
2005	2.	World Cup in Tehran	Heavy	behind Mijaín López Núñez u. before Dawid Saldadze , Alireza Gharabi a. Alexander Safronov, Kazakhstan
2005	11.	EM in Varna	Heavy	after a loss to Xenofon Koutsiabas
2007	9.	EM in Sofia	Heavy	with a victory over Ivan Ivanov , Bulgaria a. a loss to İsmail Güzel , Turkey
2007	3.	World Cup in Baku	Heavy	with victories over Beka Tschelidze, Georgia , Mindaugas Mizgaitis , a defeat against Mijaín López Núñez , further victories over Anton Botew, Czech Republic and Iosof Tschugaschwili , Belarus a. a loss to Mihály Deák Bárdos
2008	1.	EM in Tampere	Heavy	with victories over Iossif Tschugaschwili , Rocco Daniele Ficara, Italy, Yannick Szczepaniak , France a . Chassan Baroyev , Russia
2008	bronze	OS in Beijing	Heavy	with victories over Yasser Sakr , Egypt , Sergei Artjuchin , Belarus and Jalmar Sjöberg , Sweden and one defeat against Mijaín López
2009	2.	World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand	Heavy	behind Mijaín López , in front of Yannick Szczepaniak, France, Alexander Anutschin , Russia a. Mihály Deák Bárdos
2009	1.	EM in Vilnius	Heavy	with victories over Nico Schmidt , Germany , Mindaugas Mizgaitis, Radomir Petkovic, Serbia , Panagioits Papadopoulos, Greece and Jalmar Sjöberg
2009	14th	World Cup in Herning / Denmark	Heavy	with a victory over Xu Longsheng, China a. a loss to Rıza Kayaalp , Turkey
2010	1.	World Cup in Yerevan	Heavy	before Rıza Kayaalp , Johan Eurén , Sweden and Alexander Anutschin
2010	2.	World Cup in Moscow	Heavy	behind Mijaín López , in front of Rıza Kayaalp, Nurmachan Tanalijew, Kazakhstan u. Dremiel Byers
2011	3.	EM in Dortmund	Heavy	after victories over Xenofon Koutsioubas, Greece and Anton Dok, Croatia , a defeat against Rıza Kayaalp and a victory over Johan Eurén
2011	9.	World Cup in Istanbul	Heavy	after victories over Heiki Nabi , Estonia and Mesut Hashinzade, Azerbaijan and defeats against Mijaín López and Johan Eurén
2011	1.	"Kristjan-Palusalu" Memorial in Tallinn	Heavy	before Heiki Nabi, Alexander Tschernezki, Ukraine and Marijus Grygelis, Lithuania
2011	1.	"Henry Deglane" Challenge in Nice	Heavy	before Yannick Szczepaniak, France and Christian John , Germany
2012	8th.	OS in London	Heavy	after defeating Chassan Baroev and losing to Bashir Asgari Babajanzadeh, Iran

Explanations

• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championships, EM = European Championships
• Super heavyweight, until 2001 up to 130 kg, heavyweight (instead of the super heavyweight) since 2002 up to 120 kg
• all competitions in Greco-Roman style

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• Trade journal Der Ringer from 1994 to 2008, in particular No. 01/2002, pages 4-8, 05/2002, pages 4-6, 10/2002, pages 4-7, 05/2004, pages 7-10, 05 / 2005, pages 7-9, 05/2007, pages 7-9 and 10/2007, pages 5-7
• International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig ,
• Website "sports123.com"

Web link

• Profile of Juri Patrikejew at the Institute for Applied Training Science