Moon Eui-jae

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 문의 재
Hanja 文 義 済
Revised
Romanization 		Mun Ui-jae
McCune-
Reischauer 		Mun Ŭichae

Moon Eui-jae (born February 10, 1975 in Daejeon , South Korea ) is a South Korean wrestler . He won a silver medal in free style in the world terweight and middleweight division at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games .

Career

Moon Eui-jae started wrestling as a teenager in 1988. Fully focused on the free style, he developed quickly and became South Korean Junior Champion in 1993. As is customary in South Korea, it has been sponsored by the industrial company Samsung Corporation Seoul throughout its career . His coach was the former world class wrestler Park Jung-soon .

His first appearance at a major international wrestling event took place in 1994 at the Goodwill Games in Saint Petersburg . As an internationally inexperienced wrestler, he came in the free style in the welterweight on the 7th place. A year later he started at the Junior World Championship (Espoirs = age group up to the age of 20) in Tehran . He fought his way up to the finals and was defeated by the Russian Buwaissar Saitijew . He met this exceptional wrestler frequently in his career, which was to last until 2004. But he could never defeat it.

In 1997, Moon won the Asian welterweight championship for the first time in front of the Mongols Tümen-Öldsiin Mönchbajar and the Uzbek Saygid Katinovasov . In the same year he finished 2nd at the East Asian Games in Busan in the welterweight division. Here he had to surrender to the Kazakhs Magomed Kuruglijew . In his first participation in a world championship in 1997 in Krasnoyarsk , he got four wins. After losing to Buwaissar Saitijew and Kamil Kacaoğlu , Turkey, he finally reached 5th place.

In 1998, Moon Eui-jae was runner-up in Tehran for the first time. On the way to the final, in which he again lost Buwaissar Saitijew, he defeated u. a. also the top German wrestler Alexander Leipold . Things didn't go quite as well for him at the 1999 World Cup in Ankara . After three wins he was defeated there by the American Joe E. Williams and came in 6th place.

At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , Moon Eui-jae won a bronze medal with four welterweight wins . In the semifinals of these games he lost against Alexander Leipold, who became Olympic champion, on points. After the games, Leipold was disqualified for doping. Moon therefore moved up one place and was awarded the silver medal.

In 2001 Moon was again vice world champion in Sofia in the welterweight division. It was again Buwaissar Saitijew who defeated him in the final. In 2002 he moved to the next higher weight class, the middleweight. He won the middleweight tournament in this weight class at the Asian Games in Busan in front of Magomed Kuruglijew and Shamil Aliyev from Tajikistan . He was not at the start at this year's World Cup.

At the 2003 World Cup in New York , he met after two victorious fights in his third fight against the Russian Saschid Saschidow , to whom he was defeated on points. With this defeat he was eliminated and only came in 11th place. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , he was able to successfully take revenge on Saschid Saschidow, defeating him on points. He also won over such strong wrestlers as Miroslaw Gotschew from Bulgaria , Mogamed Ibragimov from Macedonia and Taras Danko from the Ukraine . After these victories in the final, he faced the American Cael Sanderson , against whom he lost just on points. He won his second Olympic silver medal.

After Athens, Monn Eui-jae ended his career as a wrestler. Today he works for Samsung Corporation as a wrestler trainer.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, We = welterweight, then up to 74 or 76 kg body weight, Wed = middleweight, then up to 84 kg body weight)

  • 1997, 2nd place , East Asian Games in Busan , F, We, behind Magomed Kurugliew u. before monk bayar Tumenultsa;
  • 1998, 1st place , FILA tournament in Clermont-Ferrand , F, We, in front of Gurami Mtschedlidze, Ukraine a . Monk bayar Tumenultsa;
  • 1998, 1st place , Asian Games in Bangkok , F, We, before Kenji Koshiba, Japan a . Ruslan Veliev, Kazakhstan;
  • 2000, silver medal , OS in Sydney , F, We, with victories over Alik Musajew, Ukraine, Reinhold Ozoline, Australia , Marcin Jurecki , Poland a . Adem Bereket , Turkey a. a loss to Alexander Leipold; Leipold was disqualified after the games for doping. With that Moon moved behind the American Brandon Slay on the silver place;
  • 2001, 1st place , East Asian Games in Osaka , F, We, ahead of Gennadi Lalijew , Kazakhstan a. Kunihiko Obata, Japan;
  • 2002, 2nd place , World Cup in Sofia , F, Wed, with victories over Felix Polianidis, Greece , Phan Thanh Quyer, Vietnam , Árpád Ritter u. Radion Kertanti u. a loss to Buwaissar Saitijew;
  • 2002, 1st place , Asian Games in Busan, F, Wed, in front of Magomed Kuruglijew a. Shamil Aliyev, Tajikistan ;
  • 2004, 4th place , Olympic qualification tournament in Bratislava , F, Wed, behind Eldar Assanow , Ukraine, Hidekazu Yokoyama Japan a. Feridun Ghanbaripizar, Iran;
  • 2004, 2nd place , Asian championship in Tehran, F, Wed, behind Feridun Ghanbaripizar u. before Magomed Kuruglijew u. Hassan Fadil, Iraq;

swell

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

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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Moon is the family name here, Eui-jae is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Moon, Eui-jae
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Daejeon