Mélonin Noumonvi
Mélonin Noumonvi (born October 10, 1982 in Paris ) is a French wrestler . He was vice world champion in 2009 and world champion in Greco-Roman style in middleweight in 2014.
Career
Mélonin Noumonvi, called "Mélo", is the son of African immigrants to France . He started wrestling in 1989 at the age of 7 and is a member of the Bagnolet wrestling club near Paris . During his international career, which has been going on since 1998, he has been trained by Didier Duceux, Franck Abrial, Jean-Marc Carday and Patrice Mourier . He wrestles exclusively in the Greco-Roman style and weighs about 90 kg as an adult with a height of 1.85 meters, trained for the competitions in the middleweight (up to 84 kg body weight). He is also known in Germany because he wrestles for KSV Köllerbach in the Bundesliga .
Mélonin Noumonvi first took part in an international championship, the Junior World Cadet Championship in Pretoria , in 1998 . There he took 4th place in the weight class up to 76 kg body weight. He reached fourth places at the 2001 World Junior Championships in Tashkent and at the 2002 Junior European Championships in Subotica , both in the middleweight division.
In 2002 he also started for the first time at the European Senior Championship. In Seinäjoki / Finland he came here in the middleweight division with a victory over Filip Soukop, Czech Republic and a defeat against Sandor Istvan Bardosi from Hungary in 14th place. Until 2005 Mélonin Noumonvi did not succeed in winning a medal at the international championships. The best result he achieved in those years was 9th place at the 2003 World Cup in Créteil .
2006 Mélonin Noumonvi won an EM bronze medal in the middleweight division at the European Championships in Moscow . It was his first medal at an international senior championship. He fought for this by winning the battle for 3rd place over Bernhard Mayr , Germany . At the 2006 World Cup in Guangzhou / China he retired after defeating Oleksandr Darahan from Ukraine after a defeat against the 2004 Olympic champion Alexei Mishin from Russia and only came in 19th place.
In 2007 he again won a bronze medal at the European Championships in Sofia . He won there over Pawel Daniel Burla from Romania , Vitali Lishchinksi, Ukraine, Goran Bojanic, Serbia and Artur Michalkiewicz , Poland and lost again to Alexei Mishin. At the 2007 World Cup in Baku , however, he retired after a victory over Dante Harebashvili, Greece because of a defeat against Yunior Estrada Falcon from Cuba after the 2nd round and landed again on 19th place.
At the European Championships in Tampere in 2008 Mélonin Noumonvi retired after two wins with a defeat against the multiple world champion Ara Abrahamian from Sweden after the third round and only came in 10th place. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , for which he had qualified by winning the qualifying tournament in Rome , he then caused a sensation. He lost his first fight there against the Italian Andrea Minguzzi with 0: 2 rounds with 2: 2 points, with Minguzzi winning each of the two rounds only by the last standings. At that time, nobody knew that Minuzzi would become Olympic champion . Minguzzi owed a large part of this Olympic victory to Mélonin Noumonvi, who defeated the Olympic champion Alexei Mischin in his next fight with 2: 1 laps and 2: 5 technical points and threw him out of the race. He won two rounds each with 1-0 points and lost one round with 0-5 points. After this fight, Ara Abrahamian, the next opponent of Mélonin Noumonvi, prevented his medal win, because he beat it with 2: 0 rounds and 4: 0 points. Mélonin Noumonvi came in 5th place.
In 2009 he finished 7th at the European Championships in Vilnius with victories over Pedro Yacinto Garcia Perez from Spain and Denis Forow from Armenia and a somewhat surprising defeat against Shalva Gabaradze from Azerbaijan . However, he was able to celebrate the greatest success of his career at the 2009 World Championships in Herning / Denmark when he was in the final of this championship after victories over Yerbol Raimbekow, Kazakhstan , Bolat Abdullajew, Ukraine, Badri Chassaia , Georgia and Habibollah Akhlagi, Iran but he had no chance against the experienced Nazmi Avluca from Turkey in the defeat with 0: 2 rounds with 0: 4 points. But at least he was vice world champion .
At the 2010 European Championships in Baku , Mélonin Noumonvi won a bronze medal together with Jan Fischer from Germany , which he won with a victory over Nenad Žugaj from Croatia . Before that he had lost again to Nazmi Avluca . At the 2010 World Cup in Moscow, he lost his first fight against Theodoros Tounousidis from Greece and retired very early because he did not reach the final. He only came in 24th place.
Melonin Noumonvi was also unable to place in the front field at the 2011 World Cup in Istanbul and the 2012 European Championship in Belgrade. However, he managed to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games in London at a tournament in Taiyuan / China. In London he won the middleweight division over Rami Hietaniemi , Finland, then lost to the 2004 Olympic champion Karam Mohamed Gaber Ibragim from Egypt, then defeated Nenad Žugaj from Croatia and was defeated in the battle for a bronze medal against Damian Janikowski from Poland.
In 2013 he moved from middleweight to light heavyweight. At this year's European Championships in Tbilisi, he immediately won a bronze medal in this weight class. On the way to this medal he defeated Robert Awanesjan, Israel, lost to Wladislaw Metodiew , Bulgaria and then defeated Dajan Franjkovic, Serbia and Felix Radinger , Germany. He also showed good fights at the 2013 World Cup in Budapest. He first won over Konstantinos Vourdanos, Greece, then lost to Nikita Melnikow from Russia, won over Daigoro Timoncini, Italy and lost to Timo Antero Kallio from Finland. With these results he finished 9th. He also started in April 2014 at the European Light Heavyweight Championships in Vantaa / Finland, where he won over Robert Awenesjan and the ex-world champion Balasz Kiss from Hungary, then lost to Cenk İldem from Turkey and was also defeated in the battle for one of the bronze medals against Fredrik Nice from Sweden. At the 2014 World Championships in Tashkent, he surprisingly wrestled again in the middleweight division and sensationally won the world championship title there at an advanced wrestling age of 32 years. In the final he defeated the vice world champion of 2013 Saman Tahmasebi from Azerbaijan.
International success
| year | space | competition | Weight class | |
| 1998 | 4th | Junior World Championships (Cadets) in Pretoria | up to 76 kg body weight | behind George Rurua, Georgia , Mustafa Haylaz, Turkey u. Sergei Ponomarev, Ukraine |
| 1999 | 8th. | Junior World Championships (Cadets) in Nyköbing | up to 76 kg body weight | Winner: Nikolai Kurakow, Russia ahead of Mustafa Haylaz |
| 2000 | 20th | Junior World Championships in Nantes | medium | after defeats against Bojan Mijatow, Yugoslavia a . Andreas Aurich, Germany |
| 2001 | 4th | Junior World Championships in Tashkent | medium | behind Masoud Hashemzadeh, Iran , Artur Mikolayczak, Poland a . Hamdi Erarslankilic, Turkey |
| 2002 | 14th | EM in Seinäjoki / Finland | medium | with a victory over Filip Soukop , Czech Republic a . a loss to Sandor Istvan Bardosi , Hungary |
| 2002 | 4th | Junior European Championship in Subotica | medium | behind Balasz Kiss , Hungary , Theodoras Tounousidis, Greece and Evgeni Kravchuk, Russia |
| 2002 | 21st | World Cup in Moscow | medium | with a victory over Baldas Sidlanskas, Lithuania a . one loss to Ara Abrahamian , Sweden |
| 2003 | 9. | World Cup in Créteil | medium | with victories over Christian Mosquero, Columbia a . Yanarbek Kenjajew, Kyrgyzstan a . a loss to Muchran Vakhtangadze , Georgia |
| 2004 | 1. | New York City Athletic Club Open | medium | before Keith Sieracki u. Dimitri Kruheik, bde. United States |
| 2004 | 15th | EM in Haparanda | medium | with a victory over Brian Jörgensen, Denmark a . a loss to Tarvi Thomberg, Estonia |
| 2004 | 16. | OS in Athens | medium | after defeats against Gotcha Ziziaschwili , Israel a . Alexei Mishin , Russia |
| 2005 | 12. | EM in Varna | medium | after losing to Laimutis Adomaitis, Lithuania |
| 2005 | 3. | Mediterranean Games in Almería | medium | behind Mohamed Mohamed, Egypt a . Serkan Özden, Turkey |
| 2005 | 22nd | World Cup in Budapest | medium | after losing to Badri Chassaia , Georgia |
| 2006 | 3. | EM in Moscow | medium | after a defeat against Denis Forow , Armenia a . Wins over Fritz Aanes , Norway , Sandor Istvan Bardosi u. Bernhard Mayr , Germany |
| 2006 | 19th | World Cup in Guangzhou / China | medium | with a victory over Oleksandr Darahan , Ukraine a. a loss to Alexei Mishin |
| 2007 | 2. | "Nikolai Petrov" Memorial in Sofia | medium | behind Taleb Nariman Nematpour , Iran, in front of Andrea Minguzzi , Italy a . Shingo Matsumoto, Japan |
| 2007 | 1. | Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest | medium | before Zoltán Fodor u. Sandor Istvan Bardosi , bde. Hungary a. Alim Selimow , Belarus |
| 2007 | 3. | EM in Sofia | medium | with victories over Pawel Daniel Burla, Romania a . Vitaly Lishchinsky, Ukraine, a loss to Alexei Mishin a. Victories over Goran Bojanic, Serbia a . Artur Michalkiewicz , Poland |
| 2007 | 5. | German Grand Prix in Dortmund | medium | behind Artur Michalkiewicz, Rene Zimmermann , Germany, Andrei Baranowski, Belarus a. Andrea Minguzzi |
| 2007 | 19th | World Cup in Baku | medium | with a victory over Dante Harebashvili, Greece a . one loss to Yunior Estrada Falcon, Cuba |
| 2008 | 10. | EM in Tampere | medium | with victories over Adrian Mocanu, Moldova a . Artur Michalkiewicz et al. one loss to Ara Abrahamian , Sweden |
| 2008 | 1. | Olympic qualification tournament in Rome | medium | in front of Andrei Samoschin, Kazakhstan a . Artur Michalkiewicz |
| 2008 | 1. | German Grand Prix in Dortmund | medium | before Andrei Baranowski, Artur Michalkiewicz, Shingo Matsumoto u. Alim Selimov |
| 2008 | 5. | OS in Beijing | medium | with a defeat against Andrea Minguzzi , a victory over Alexei Mischin a. a loss to Ara Abrahamian |
| 2009 | 2. | Wladyslaw Pytlasinski Memorial in Warsaw | medium | behind Jan Fischer , Germany, in front of Oleg Scholikow , Russia a. Zoltan Fodor |
| 2009 | 2. | World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand | medium | behind Alexei Mischin, in front of Zoltan Fodor |
| 2009 | 7th | EM in Vilnius | medium | with victories over Pedro Yacinto Garcia Perez, Spain a . Denis Forow et al. a loss to Shalva Gabaradze, Azerbaijan |
| 2009 | 3. | Mediterranean Games in Pescara | medium | behind Nenad Žugaj , Croatia u. Andrea Minguzzi |
| 2009 | 2. | World Cup in Herning / Denmark | medium | with victories over Yerbol Raimbekow, Kazakhstan, Bolat Abdullajew, Ukraine, Badri Chassaia , Georgia a. Habibollah Akhlagi, Iran a. a loss to Nazmi Avluca , Turkey |
| 2010 | 2. | Golden Grand Prix in Szombathely | medium | behind Alexei Mishin, in front of Nenad Žugaj |
| 2010 | 3. | EM in Baku | medium | with victories over Andrei Baranowski a. Amar Hrustanovic, Austria , a loss to Alexei Mischin u. a victory over Nenad Žugaj |
| 2010 | 1. | German Grand Prix in Dortmund | Semi-difficult | before Mirko Englich , Germany, Fredrik Schoen, Sweden and Robert Papp, Romania |
| 2010 | 24. | World Cup in Moscow | medium | after losing to Theodoros Tounousidis, Greece |
| 2011 | 1. | Cristo Lutte in Créteil | medium | before Theodoros Tounousidis, Anton Babko Maly, Ukraine and Jim Eric Pettersson, Sweden |
| 2011 | 1. | Granma Cup in Havana | medium | before Jan Fischer, Germany, Norge Francia and Alain Olivera, both Cuba |
| 2011 | 20th | World Cup in Istanbul | medium | after a victory over Vladimir Gegeschidze , Georgia and a loss to Nenad Zugaj |
| 2012 | 23. | EM in Belgrade | medium | after a defeat by Vladimir Gegeschidze |
| 2012 | 10. | Olympic qualification tournament in Sofia | medium | Winner: Wassyl Ratschyba , Ukraine ahead of Amer Hrustanovic, Austria |
| 2012 | 3. | Olympic qualification tournament in Taiyuan / China | medium | |
| 2012 | 5. | OS in London | medium | after defeating Rami Hietaniemi , Finland, defeating Karam Mohamed Gaber Ibragim , Egypt, defeating Nenad Zugaj and defeating Damian Janikowski , Poland |
| 2013 | 3. | EM in Tbilisi | Semi-difficult | after a victory over Robert Awanesjan, Israel, a defeat against Wladislaw Metodiew, Bulgaria and victories over Dejan Franjkovic, Serbia and Felix Radinger, Germany |
| 2013 | 1. | Mediterranean Games in Mersin / Turkey | Semi-difficult | before Cenk İldem , Turkey, Ahmed Saad, Egypt and Daigoro Timoncini, Italy |
| 2013 | 18th | Wladyslaw Pytlasinski Memorial in Warsaw | Semi-difficult | Winner: Balasz Kiss, Hungary ahead of Wladislaw Metodiew |
| 2013 | 9. | World Cup in Budapest | Semi-difficult | after defeating Konstantinos Vourdanos, Greece, defeating Nikita Melnikow, Russia, defeating Daigoro Timoncini and defeating Timo Antero Kallio, Finland |
| 2014 | 2. | Golden Grand Prix in Paris | Semi-difficult | behind Daigoro Timoncini, in front of Wasil Imerlishvili, Georgia and Daniel Gastl, Austria |
| 2014 | 5. | EM in Vantaa / Finland | Semi-difficult | after victories over Robert Awenesjan and Balsz Kiss and defeats against Cenk Ildem and Fredrik Schoen |
| 2014 | 3. | Stockholm Open | Semi-difficult | behind Fredrik Schoen and Daigoro Timoncini |
| 2014 | 1. | Wladyslaw Pytlasinski Memorial in Gdansk | medium | in front of Karimfar Mojtaba, Iran, Jawid Hamsatow , Belarus, Mikulai Stadub, Belarus and Denis Kudla , Germany |
| 2014 | 1. | World Cup in Tashkent | medium | before Saman Tahmasebi , Azerbaijan, Dschan Belentschuk , Ukraine, Viktor Lőrincz , Hungary and Ramsin Azizsir , Germany |
French championships
Mélonin Noumonvi became French middleweight champions in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2008
- Explanations
- all competitions in the Greco-Roman style,
- OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championships, EM = European Championships,
- Average weight, up to 85 kg until 2002, up to 84 kg body weight since 2003, light heavy weight, up to 96 kg (until December 31, 2013); since January 1, 2014: middle weight, up to 85 kg and light heavy weight, up to 98 kg body weight
literature
- Trade journal "Der Ringer"
Web links
- US and French Wrestling Federation websites
- Mélonin Noumonvi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Profile of Mélonin Noumonvi at the Institute for Applied Training Science
- Fight between Melonin Noumonvi (blue) and Nenad Zugaj at the 2010 European Championships (on YouTube )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Noumonvi, Mélonin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |