Noel Loban

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Noel Loban (born April 28, 1957 in Wimbledon / England ) is a former English wrestler .

Career

Noel Loban was born in Wimbledon to West Indian immigrant parents. Shortly after he was born, he and his parents moved to Long Island , New York , where Noel Loban grew up. He attended high school there and then for two years the State University of Farmingdale and then from 1977 to 1980 Glemson University in New York. Noel Loban had already started wrestling in high school, which he continued in universities. In 1977 he won the NCAA (= US American University Sports Association) junior championship in freestyle wrestling and in 1980 was the NCAA light heavyweight champion of the United States .

In the following years Noel Loban started as an English citizen at several international championships for this country. The greatest success he achieved was winning the bronze medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles . He scored five wins there and won u. a. also about the German champion Bodo Lukowski from Witten , but missed the finals due to a defeat against the Japanese Akira Ōta .

In 1988 Noel Loban achieved another great success by winning the European runner-up in Manchester . He even left the multiple world and European champion Uwe Neupert from the GDR behind, but couldn't get past the Soviet athlete Leri Chabelowi . At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 Noel Loben could no longer place himself in the front field. He had to be content with 7th place.

Noel Loban also won the wrestling tournament at the Commonwealth Games twice, in 1986 and 1994, and once, in 1977, the tournament at the Commonwealth Championships.

Noel Loban was also very well known as a wrestler in the Federal Republic of Germany because he wrestled there for years in the Bundesliga for KSV Wiesental .

After the end of his wrestling career, Noel Loban went back to the USA. Since then he has worked as a wrestling trainer and sports instructor. He has lived in Raleigh / North Carolina since 2006 and runs a "Combat Sports Academy" there.

International success

(all competitions in free style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, light heavyweight, up to 90 kg, heavyweight, 100 kg body weight)

year space competition Weight class
1983 1. Grand Prix of Austria in Salzburg Semi-difficult before Edwin Lins, Austria and Günther Glunk, FRG
1983 1. EC championship in Annecy / France Semi-difficult before Stefan Schäfer, FRG, Michele Azzola , Italy and Georges Marx, France
1984 5. Tournament in Clermont-Ferrand Semi-difficult behind Iwan Guinow , Bulgaria , Torsten Wagner , GDR , Jan Gorski , Poland and Aleksander Cichoń , FRG and in front of Michele Azzola
1984 7th EM in Jönköping Semi-difficult after losing to Waha Jawlojew , USSR and Jan Gorski, Poland
1984 bronze OS in Los Angeles Semi-difficult m. Wins over Bodo Lukowski , FRG, Tallo, Mauritania , Michele Azzola, Appah, Nigeria and Clark Davis , Canada and one defeat against Akira Ōta , Japan
1986 1. Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh Semi-difficult before Doug Cox , Canada and Graeme English, Scotland
1987 4th World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand Semi-difficult behind Macharbek Chadarzew , USSR, James Scherr , USA and Jerzy Niec , Poland and in front of Dsewegiin Düwtschin , Mongolia and Iraklios Deskoulidis , Greece
1987 1. Commonwealth Championships in Nicosia Heavy before Jackson Bidei , Nigeria and Robert Algie, Australia
1988 1. FILA Grand Prix Gala in Budapest Heavy before Istvan Robotka , Hungary , Ayık Sezgin , Turkey and Sandor Kiss , Hungary
1988 2. EM in Manchester Heavy behind Leri Chabelowi , USSR and in front of Uwe Neupert , GDR , Petar Makedonow, Bulgaria and Istvan Robotka
1988 7th OS in Seoul Heavy behind Vasile Pușcașu , Romania , Leri Chabelowi, William Scherr , USA, Uwe Neupert, Georgi Karaduchew, Bulgaria and Boldyn Dschawchlantögs , Mongolia
1989 1. German Grand Prix in Bonn Semi-difficult in front of Wagab Kasibekow, USSR and Andrzej Radomski, Poland
1994 3. German Grand Prix in Wiesental Heavy behind Arawat Sabejew , Germany , Milan Mazac , Czech Republic and in front of Ömer Aslan, Turkey, Jozsef Glazer, Hungary and Gregory Edgelow , Canada
1994 2. Commonwealth Games in Victoria Heavy behind Gregory Edgelow, Canada and in front of Subash Verma , India

British Championships

Noel Loban became the British free style light heavyweight champion in 1984 and heavyweight champion in 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1994.

swell

  • Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 5/1983, page 9, 5/1984, page 12, 9/1984, page 14, 9/1987, page 10, 5/1988, page 5,
  • Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
  • Glemson University website

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