Rustam Aji

Rustam Iwanowytsch Adschi ( Ukrainian Рустам Іванович Аджі ; born March 3, 1973 in Mariupol ) is a former Soviet and Ukrainian wrestler , he became a wrestling trainer after his active career. He became world champion in the Greco-Roman style in 1995 in the lightweight.

Career

Rustam Adschi started wrestling as a teenager in 1982. He started for the Ukrainian sports club Avosmasch Mariupol . He was trained by Gennadi Uzun and started exclusively in the Greco-Roman style.

In 1991 he took part in the Junior World Championship in Barcelona , at that time still starting for the Soviet Union . That was his first start in an international championship. In featherweight he just missed a medal with 4th place. A year later, now already for the Ukraine going to the start, it was in Székesfehérvár in lightweight Junior Vice World Champion . In the final he lost against Alexander Tretyakov from Russia , who was to become one of his main competitors at international championships in the senior class in the next few years. In 1993 Rustam Adschi finally came in 5th place at the Junior World Championships in Athens in lightweight. Bisser Georgiew from Bulgaria won there ahead of Marko Yli-Hannuksela from Finland , who were also to become constant competitors of Rustam in the following years.

In 1994 Rustam Adschi started for the first time at an international senior championship. At the European Championships in Athens he came in 4th place in the lightweight. He lost the battle for the bronze medal with 1: 2 points against the Russian champion Islam Dugutschijew . He wasn't quite as successful at the 1994 World Championships in Tampere , because there he only came 8th in the lightweight.

In 1995 Rustam Adschi paused at the European Championships, but appeared in impressive form at the World Championships that year in Prague . He successively defeated Wital Schuk from Belarus , Turgu Denici from Turkey , Son Sang-pil from South Korea , Ryszard Wolny from Poland and the 1992 Olympic champion Attila Repka from Hungary and thus won the world title. The victories over Wolny and Repka were pretty clear with 5: 0 and 6: 2 points.

In the 1996 Olympic year he was nowhere near as successful. At the European Championships in Budapest he lost the revenge match against Attila Repka in his second fight , retired and only finished 14th and also at the Olympic Games this year in Atlanta he was eliminated after the second round and only reached 13th place . Space. In 1997 he proved at the European Championships in Kouvola that he can still place in the top field. He had to shoulder himself there in his first fight after 2.24 minutes by Adam Juretzko from Germany , but then won the following fights until he stood in the so-called small final for the bronze medal, in which he beat the bulky Finn Marko Yli -Hannuksela clearly defeated with 5-0 points. At the World Championships in 1997 in Wrócław he succeeded u. a. Again a victory over Ryszard Wolny, after defeats against Alexander Tretyakov and the Romanian Ender Memet he had to be content with the 8th place.

In 1998 Rustam Adschi lost the decisive battle for the bronze medal against Adam Juretzko at the European Championships in Minsk with 2: 4 on points and was therefore fourth. At the 1998 World Cup in Gävle he only managed one victory so that he, u. a. with a loss to Alexander Tretyakov, only took 16th place. In 1999 he only started at the World Championships in Athens and came in 8th place there. He won there against Vougar Aslanow from Azerbaijan and lost to Ender Memet and Son Sang-pil , who surprisingly became world champion. He did not win a medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney either, but came after defeating the strong Uladsimir Kapytau from Belarus after defeats against Ryszard Wolny and Alexei Gluschkow from Russia , to whom he was only slightly defeated with 4: 5 points 8th place.

At the European Championships in 2001 in Istanbul , Rustam Adschi landed on 19th place. Nobody actually expected that he would win another medal at a major international championship. But he surprised all critics at the 2001 World Cup in Patras . After four wins he lost to Alexei Gluschkow in the semi-finals, but in the battle for the bronze medal he defeated the Swede Jimmy Samuelsson . In 2002 he took part in an international championship for the last time. He convinced at the European Championships in Seinäjoki in the welterweight division, because he won his first three fights there and was only defeated in the semifinals against the Georgian Badri Chassaia and only had to go by points in the fight for the bronze medal against Marko Yli-Hannuksela (2: 3) give up.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Result
1991	4th	Junior World Championships in Barcelona	feather	behind Konstantinos Arkoudeas, Greece , Liubal Colas Oris, Cuba u. Istvan Göre, Hungary
1992	2.	Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Székesfehérvár	Light	behind Alexander Tretyakov , Russia , in front of Bisser Georgiew , Bulgaria a . Marko Yli-Hannuksela , Finland
1993	5.	Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Athens	Light	behind Bisser Georgiew, Marko Yli-Hannuksela, Wital Schuk, Belarus a . Waghinak Galstyan, Armenia
1994	4th	EM in Athens	Light	behind Attila Repka , Hungary, Ghani Yalouz , France a . Islam Dugutschijew , Russia, before Ryszard Wolny , Poland
1994	8th.	World Cup in Tampere	Light	Winner: Islam Dugutschijew, Russia ahead of Ghani Yalouz, Bisser Georgiew a. Ryszard Wolny
1995	1.	Polish Grand Prix in Warsaw	Light	before Dariusz Przystoli, Poland, Jannis Zamanduridis , Germany , Samuel Manukjan, Armenia a. Denis Belanowski, Israel
1995	1.	World Cup in Prague	Light	before Attila Repka, Hungary, Jannis Zamanduridis, Ryszard Wolny u. Tariel Melelashvili , Georgia
1996	14th	EM in Budapest	Light	Winner: Attila Repka ahead of Alexander Tretyakov a . Ghani Yalouz
1996	13.	OS in Atlanta	Light	after defeat against Marko Yli-Hannuksela, Finland, victory over Kim Young-il, South Korea a . Loss against Alexander Tretyakov
1997	3.	EM in Kouvola	Light	after losing to Adam Juretzko , Germany, victories over Peter Bielesz , Czech Republic, Waghinak Galstjan, Andrzej Tomaszewski, Poland a. Vüqar Aslanov , Azerbaijan u. Marko Yli-Hannuksela
1997	8th.	World Cup in Wrócław	Light	with victories over Liubal Colas Oris, Cuba a. Ryszard Wolny, a defeat against Alexander Tretyakov, victories over Walter Metzler, Austria a . Waghinak Galstjan u. a loss to Ender Memet , Romania
1998	4th	EM in Minsk	Light	after victory over Juri Markman, Israel, defeat against Alexander Tretyakov a. Wins over Memet Ender and Adam Juretzko
1998	16.	World Cup in Gävle	Light	after defeat by Alexander Tretyakov, victory over Katsuhito Nagata, Japan a . Loss to Mecnun Guler, Turkey
1999	8th.	World Cup in Athens	Light	after victory over Anas Ardobajew, Kyrgyzstan , defeat against Ender Memet, victory over Vüqar Aslanov u. Lost to Son Sang-pil
2000	8th.	OS in Sydney	Light	after victory over Uladsimir Kapytau u. Defeats against Ryszard Wolny u. Alexei Gluschkow , Russia
2001	19th	EM in Istanbul	Welter	Winner: Alexei Mischin , Russia, ahead of Ara Abrahamian , Sweden and Nazmi Avluca , Turkey
2001	3.	World Cup in Patras	Light	after victories over Daniel Schnyder, Switzerland , Mahmut Altay, Turkey, Andrei Lisiza, Belarus a. Moises Sanches Parra, Spain , a loss to Alexei Gluschkow a. a win over Jimmy Samuelsson , Sweden
2002	4th	EM in Seinäjoki / Finland	Welter	after victories over Mowses Karapetjan, Armenia, Valeri Nikitin, Estonia a . Ștefan Rusu , Romania and defeats against Badri Chassaia , Georgia a. Marko Yli-Hannuksela

Explanations

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Lightweight, up to 68 kg up to 1996, up to 69 kg from 1997 to 2001, welter weight, up to 76 kg from 1996 to 2001, up to 74 kg body weight from 2002

swell

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

Web links

• Rustam Adschi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )