Pejman Dorostkar

Pejman Dorostkar (born August 18, 1976 ) is a former Iranian wrestler . He was Olympian and multiple Asian champion in free style in Welter - or middleweight .

Career

Pejman Dorostkar started wrestling in 1988 at the age of 12. He developed into a first-class freestyle wrestler who, after four years of training, took part in the Junior World Championship (Cadets = age group up to 16 years) in Istanbul in 1992 and won a bronze medal there in the welterweight division . He belonged to one of the best Iranian wrestling clubs, the Pas Tehran wrestling club. In the course of his career he had a number of coaches in the club and in the national team. The most important of these are Reza Dorostkar, Ahmat Rezaei, Hassan Ghadiri, Reza Ghorbani, Mohsen Kaveh and Mansour Barzegar . He studied sports.

In 1994 Pejman Dorostkar started at the Junior World Championships (Juniors = age group up to 18 years of age) in Budapest , but just missed a medal there with 4th place in the welterweight division. In 1994, he also launched the Grand Prix of Germany in Wiesental , but could there not place in front of the field, because he after a loss to Victor Peicov from Moldova to retire early.

It then took him a few years in Iran to assert himself with the senior citizens. In 1998 he came to his next assignment at an international championship, the World Cup in Tehran . In his hometown of all places he missed another medal with another 4th place. However, Buwaissar Saitijew from Russia , Moon Eui-jae from South Korea and Alexander Leipold from Germany placed three absolute top wrestlers in front of him, so that his 4th place was really no shame.

In 2000 Pejman Dorostkar qualified for the Olympic Games in Sydney with a 2nd place in the qualifying tournament in Mexico City . In Sydney he first defeated the Mongol Tümen-Öldsiin Mönchbajar , but was already defeated in his next fight by the Russian Gennadi Lalijew , who started for Kazakhstan . According to the regulations at that time, he had to retire and only finished 12th. According to today's regulations, since Lalijew reached the final, he could have continued to wrestle and could have won a bronze medal.

In 2001 Pejman Dorostkar was first Asian middleweight champion in Ulaanbaatar, followed by the second title win at this championship in New Delhi in 2003 . At the Asian Games 2002 in Busan , however, he only came in 5th place in the middleweight division.

In other international championships Pejman Dorostkar, who had tough competition in his weight class in Iran, was no longer used. He wrestled in the years 2003/04, 2004/05 for SV Siegfried Hallbergmoos and in the 2005/06 season for SV Wacker Burghausen in the German Bundesliga.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1992	3.	Junior World Championships (Cadets) in Istanbul	Welter	behind Vedat Kartal, Turkey a . Ruslan Dalajew, Russia , before Pecho Kantschew, Bulgaria a . Karlio Makimi, USA
1994	4th	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Budapest	Welter	behind Ruslan Jadinow, Russia, Kocha Eremadze, Ukraine a . Lazaros Loizidis , Greece , ahead of Yosmany Romero Rodríguez , Cuba
1998	4th	World Cup in Tehran	Welter	behind Buwaissar Saitijew , Russia, Moon Eui-jae , South Korea u. Alexander Leipold , Germany , in front of Tümen-Öldsiin Mönchbajar , Mongolia a . Marcin Jurecki, Poland
1998	5.	Asian Games in Bangkok	Welter	with victories over Ruslan Veliev, Kazakhstan a . Han Tae-kyun, North Korea a . Defeats to Moon Eui-jae u. Nurbek Isabekow, Kyrgyzstan
1999	3.	World Cup in Spokane	Welter	behind Alexander Leipold u. Stephen Marianetti, USA, before Walter Torrientes, Cuba a. Nicholas Ugoalah, Canada
2000	8th.	Olympic qualification tournament in Minsk	Welter	Winner: Gennadi Lalijew , Kazakhstan ahead of Ruslan Kinchagov , Uzbekistan a . Árpád Ritter , Hungary
2000	2.	Olympic qualifying tournament in Mexico City	Welter	behind Nasir Gadžihanov , Macedonia , in front of Felix Polianidis , Greece a . Rodion Kertanti, Slovakia
2000	12.	OS in Sydney	Welter	with a victory over Tümen-Öldsiin Mönchbajar u. a loss to Gennady Laliyev
2001	4th	"Takhty" cup in Mashhad	medium	behind Feridon Ghanbaripisar , Iran, Lee Fullhart , USA a. Ahmad Shehkosteh, Iran
2001	1.	Asian Championship in Ulaanbaatar	medium	from Aslan Sanakoyev, Uzbekistan a. Narantsetsegiin Bürenbaatar , Mongolia
2002	5.	Asian Games in Busan	medium	behind Moon Eui-jae, Magomed Kuruglijew , Kazakhstan, Shamil Aliyev, Tajikistan and others. Aslan Sankoyev, Uzbekistan
2002	1.	Canada Cup in Guelph	medium	before Nicholas Ugoalah u. Carl Rainville, bde. Canada u. Sergei Kolesnikow , Israel
2003	2.	"Takhty" cup in Mashhad	medium	behind Feridon Ghanbaripisar, in front of Majid Khodaei , bde. Iran
2003	1.	Asian Championship in New Delhi	medium	before Shamil Aliyev, Magomed Kuruglijew u. Bujandelgeriin Batbajar , Mongolia
2004	2.	Canada Cup in Guelph	medium	behind Yoel Romero , Cuba, in front of Greg Parker, USA a. Travis Cross, Canada
2004	1.	Universities World Cup in Łódź	medium	in front of Joshua Weitzel, USA, Sjamjon Sjamjonau, Belarus a. Sergei Kolesnikov

Note: all competitions in free style, welter weight, up to 76 kg body weight, middle weight, up to 2001 up to 85 kg, from 2002 up to 84 kg body weight

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• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Website "www.iranwrestling.com",
• Trade journal Der Ringer ,
• US and Canadian Wrestling Association websites

Web links

Profile of Pejman Dorostkar at the Institute for Applied Training Science