Mikhail Gerasijewitsch Mamiashvili

Mamiashvili 2013

Michail Gerasijewitsch Mamiaschwili (Russian Михаил Геразиевич Мамиашвили; born November 21, 1963 in Konotop ) is a former Soviet wrestler .

Career

Mikhail Mamiashvili started wrestling when he was 14 years old. Already in the youth and juniors he dominated in his respective age range in the Soviet Union . The trained machine fitter joined the Soviet Army at the age of 18 and was delegated to the central sports club of the CSKA Moscow Army . There the coaches A. Yefremow and Nikolai Jessin soon led him to the top of the world. The coach of the national team, which Mikhail was accepted into in 1983, Gennady Sapunov , also played a major role in this . Michail wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style. The 1.77 m tall athlete first competed in the welterweight division and later in the middleweight division.

Michail made his first international appearance at an international championship in 1983 when he was welterweight junior champion (Espoirs) in Kristiansund . In the same year he was also trusted by the Soviet Federation at the World Championships in Kiev . He justified this because he became world champion. He had a lot of work on the way to the title with the German champion Karl-Heinz Helbing from Mainz , against whom he won controversially with 5: 4 points. At these championships, however, he proved by winning over the world champions of previous years, Ștefan Rusu from Romania and Andrzej Supron from Poland , that he had extraordinary potential.

Nevertheless, he had to learn the hard way at the European Championships in Jönköping in 1984 , because he was defeated by the Bulgarian Welitschkow in a pool fight and could only fight for the bronze medal against Helbing. This time he clearly won on points. He could not take part in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles because of the Olympic boycott by the socialist states. At the replacement event in Budapest he won his weight class.

At the European Championships in Leipzig in 1985 he suffered another defeat, the last for many years. This time it was Ștefan Rusu who beat him on points. Therefore, Mikhail only won the bronze medal.

From the world championships in 1985 to the European championships in 1989, Mikhail won all championships in which he participated. These were the victories at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , the World Championships in 1985 and 1986 and the European Championships in 1986, 1988 and 1989. In 1987 he did not start at any international championships. From 1985 he had increasing problems bringing the weight for the welterweight class and decided to start in the middleweight division in the future. The year 1987 served to grow into the new weight class.

At the 1986 World Cup in Budapest , Michail and Mirko Jahn from Luckenwalde faced a German wrestler in the final, which he clearly defeated. In the final fights of the European Championships in 1988 and the Olympic Games in 1988, he defeated the Hungarian Tibor Komáromi in tough fights just on points. It was also Hungarian wrestlers who defeated him at the World Championships in 1989 and 1990 and thus ended his brilliant career. In 1989 it was Komáromi and in 1990 it was Péter Farkas .

Mikhail Mamiashvili, who is a captain (captain) in the Russian army, began a very successful career as a functionary in the Russian wrestling association. In 2004 he was also the team captain of the Russian wrestlers at the Olympic Games in Athens . In August 2008 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling . In 2011 he received the Order of Honor and in 2014 the Order of Merit for the Fatherland IV class.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, We = welterweight, Mi = middleweight, back then up to 74 kg or 82 kg body weight)

• 1983, 1st place , Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Kristiansund , GR, We, ahead of Tibor Komáromi , Hungary and Petar Tenew, Bulgaria;
• 1983, 1st place , World Championships in Kiev , GR, We, ahead of Andrzej Supron , Poland , Karol Kasap, Yugoslavia , Ștefan Rusu , Romania , Roger Tallroth , Sweden and Takahiro Mukai, Japan ;
• 1984, 3rd place , EM in Jönköping , GR, We, with victories over Rolf Müller, GDR , Celal Taskiran, Turkey , Ferenc Kocsis , Hungary and Karl-Heinz Helbing , BR Germany and a defeat against Borislaw Velitschkow, Bulgaria ;
• 1984, 1st place , Grand Prix of the FR Germany in Freiburg im Breisgau , GR, We, ahead of Tallroth, Ștefan Rusu and Karl-Heinz Helbing , FR Germany ;
• 1984, 1st place , friendship games in Budapest, GR, We, in front of Andrzej Supron and Borislaw Welitschkow, Bulgaria;
• 1985, 3rd place , EM in Leipzig , GR, We, with victories over Raimund Feser, BR Germany, Taskiran, Kasap and Tallroth and one defeat against Ștefan Rusu;
• 1985, 1st place , World Cup tournament in Lund / Sweden, GR, We, ahead of Antonio López, Cuba and Tallroth;
• 1985, 1st place , World Championships in Kolbotn / Norway , GR, We, ahead of Ștefan Rusu, Jouko Salomäki , Finland , Supron, Velitschkow and Helbing;
• 1986, 1st place , Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Freiburg im Breisgau , GR, We, ahead of Tallroth, Daulet Turlychanow , USSR, Lemke, GDR and Mischler;
• 1986, 1st place , EM in Athens , GR, We, ahead of Tallroth, Salomäki, Jerzy Kopanski, Poland, Ștefan Rusu and Martial Mischler , France ;
• 1986, 1st place , World Championships in Budapest , GR, We, ahead of Mirko Jahn , GDR , Dabri Marinkow, Bulgaria, Franc Podlesek, Yugoslavia, Tallroth and David Butler, USA;
• 1988, 1st place , Grand Prix of FR Germany in Neuss , GR, Wed, ahead of Magnus Fredriksson , Sweden, Roger Gössner , FR Germany, Thomas Zander , FR Germany, Hans-Hermann Strauss , FR Germany and Bogdan Daras , Poland;
• 1988, 1st place , EM in Kolbotn, Gr, Wed, ahead of Tibor Komáromi , Hungary, Timo Niemi , Finland, Miroslaw Stefan, Bulgaria, Maik Bullmann , GDR and Sorin Herțea , Romania;
• 1988, gold medal , OS in Seoul , GR, Wed, ahead of Komáromi, Im Sang-Kyu, Korea , Stig Kleven , Norway, Goram Kasum Yugoslavia and Magnus Fredriksson , Sweden;
• 1988, 1st place , FILA Grand Prix Gala in Budapest, GR, Wed, in front of Stefan and Zoltán Ignácz, Hungary;
• 1989, 1st place , Grand Prix of FR Germany in Bonn , GR, Wed, ahead of Thomas Zander, FR Germany, Sorin Herțea, Hans-Hermann Strauss, FR Germany, Ignácz and Yazici Mahir, Turkey;
• 1989, 1st place , EM in Oulu , GR, Wed, ahead of Piotr Stepien , Poland, Olaf Koschnitzke , GDR, Komáromi, Kleven and Sorin Herțea;
• 1989, 2nd place , World Championships in Martigny / Switzerland , GR, Wed, behind Komáromi and in front of Fredriksson, Niemei, John Morgan, USA, Kasum and Zander;
• 1990, 1st place , Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Saarbrücken , GR, Wed, in front of Kasum, Niemi, Tino Hempel , GDR, Salomäki and Koschnitzke;
• 1990, 1st place , Grand Prix tournament, GR, Wed, ahead of Kasum and Niemi;
• 1990, 2nd place , World Championship in Rome , GR, Wed, behind Péter Farkas , Hungary and in front of Kasum, Niemi, Pavel Frinta, CSSR, Morgan and Koschnitzke

Soviet championships

Mikhail Mamiashvili won the Soviet championship in 1984, 1987, 1988 and 1989

Private

Mikhail Mamiashvili is married and has three daughters and a son.

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Seven wrestling legends inducted into FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame . FILA International press release on USA Wrestling, June 11, 2008, accessed on August 29, 2016.
   Gary Abbott: Kemp inducted into FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame . USA Wrestling, August 29, 2008, accessed August 29, 2016.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Биография президента ФСБР Михаила Мамиашвили, празднующего 50-летие . Biography on the RIA Novosti News Agency website , November 21, 2013, accessed August 29, 2016 (in Russian).
3. ↑ Указ Президента РФ от 05.12.2014 N 756 “О Награждении Государственными Наградами Российской Федерации”. Russian Presidential Office, archived from the original on December 12, 2014 ; Retrieved on August 29, 2016 (in Russian, Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 756 of December 5, 2014 “On receiving the state awards of the Russian Federation”). 

Web links

• Profile of Michail Mamiaschwili at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Michail Mamiaschwili in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )