Noel Loban
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
Web link
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Loban, Noel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English wrestler |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1957 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wimbledon |