Marcus Nyman

Marcus Victor Jan Nyman (born August 14, 1990 in Tullinge , Botkyrka municipality ) is a Swedish judoka . He was 2010 European middleweight champion, the weight class up to 90 kilograms.

Athletic career

The 1.89 m tall Marcus Nyman was the 2008 Swedish champion. At the U20 European Championships in 2008, he finished fifth. A month after the Junior European Championships, he won a bronze medal at the Junior World Championships. In 2009 he first won the Swedish championships and then the U20 European championships. At the European Championships 2010 in Vienna he defeated the Austrian Max Schirnhofer in the semifinals and the Georgian Warlam Liparteliani in the final . A week later he also won the Swedish championships. In 2011 he won the Grand Prix tournament in Düsseldorf. At the European Championships 2011 in Istanbul he was defeated by Warlam Liparteliani in the quarterfinals. Nyman won a bronze medal with victories in the hoping round against Yunus Emre Bayindir from Turkey and Robert Krawczyk from Poland . At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, he was eliminated in his first fight against the Uzbek Dilshod Choriyev .

In the following years Nyman did not achieve any major international success, so he was eliminated at the 2015 European Games in his first fight against the Hungarian Krisztián Tóth . At the end of 2015, he finished third at the Grand Slam in Abu Dhabi . At the beginning of 2016 he won the Grand Prix tournament in Düsseldorf and shortly afterwards took second place behind the Dutchman Noël van 't End at the Grand Prix tournament in Tbilisi . At the European Championships in Kazan in 2016 he was defeated in the quarterfinals by Poland's Piotr Kuczera . In the hope round he defeated the Ukrainian Quedjau Nhabali and received a bronze medal, as the French Alexandre Iddir was not allowed to compete for bronze. After the European Championships, Nyman won the Grand Slam tournaments in Baku and Tyumen . At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, he lost to the Chinese Cheng Xunzhao in the quarter-finals . After defeating Alexandre Iddir, Nyman lost the battle for bronze against South Korean Gwak Dong-han .

After a long break from competition, Nyman returned in 2019. At the 2019 World Championships in Tokyo, he defeated Krisztián Tóth in the quarter-finals. After a semi-final defeat against the Japanese Shoichiro Mukai, Nyman lost to the French Axel Clerget in the battle for bronze . One month after the world championships, he won the Grand Prix tournament in Tashkent.

Web links

• Tournament results at judoinside.com
• Marcus Nyman in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )