Safar Safar ogly Guliev

Safar Guliev in 2009

Safar Safar ogly Gulijew ( Russian Зафар Сафар оглы Гулиев , Azerbaijani Zəfər Quliyev; born June 17, 1972 in Lüvəsər , Azerbaijani SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian wrestler . He won a bronze medal at the 1996 Olympic Games and was three times European champion in the Greco-Roman style in paper weight.

Career

Safar Guliyev started wrestling as a teenager in 1985. After initial successes in the national area, the 1.54 meter tall athlete, who always wrestled in the paper weight, the lightest weight class, went to the Dinamo Ulyanovsk sports club . There he was trained by A. Winnik. In the 1995/96 season he started for RWG Mömbris -Königshofen in the German Bundesliga and played a total of seven fights for this club. Shortly before the start of the final round of the German team championship, he returned to Russia without notifying his club , because the club did not want to meet additional financial demands from him. In Mömbris it was given the unflattering name "The Christmas Refugee".

His international career began in 1992 in the collapsing Soviet Union . In that year he started for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and in 1993 decided to start for Russia in the future .

In 1992 he was used by the Russian Wrestling Federation at the European Championships in Copenhagen . He finished there behind Lars Rønningen from Norway and Iliuță Dăscălescu from Romania in 3rd place. He won u. a. Over the German starter Fuat Yildiz superior with 17: 0 points, but lost in the pool final against Lars Rønningen. He won the European Championship bronze medal with a victory over the Italian Francesco Costantino . He did not start at the Olympic Games in Barcelona that year . Here, the CIS Oleg Kutscherenko , who also became Olympic champion . Safar Gulijew started in 1992 at the European Junior Championships (Espoirs) in Székesfehérvár and won the title there before the Armenian Vardan Palojan .

1993 Safar Gulijew was the first time European champion in paper weight at the European championship in Istanbul . There he won victories over Andrzej Głąb from Poland , Michael Zdetovetsky, Latvia , Gela Papaschwili from Georgia, Alexander Mater Bortschuk from Ukraine and in the final over the Israeli Nick Zagranitschni from the Soviet Union . Since Olympic champion Oleg Kutscherenko had meanwhile emigrated to Germany , Gulijew also started at the 1993 World Cup in Stockholm . He defeated there u. a. in a pool fight Stefan Gartmann from Germany high on points, but lost in the final to the South Korean Sim Gwon-ho with 0: 5 techn. Points and became vice world champion .

In 1994 Safar Gulijew was again European champion in Athens . In the final he took eight points from the Hungarian Jozsef Hamzok with an impressive action within 15 seconds, so that he resigned and gave up. At the World Cup in Tampere in 1994 he was eliminated early and only finished 14th. Unfortunately, it could not be determined against whom he suffered the defeat that meant his early departure, because all sources are silent about it.

At the 1995 European Championships in Besançon , Safar Gulijew could not defend his title. He was defeated there in the final to Ioannis Agatzanjan , who came from Armenia and started for Greece , 3: 5 techn. Points. At the 1995 World Cup in Prague, he lost to Sim Gwon-ho in the pool final, but defeated Oleg Kutscherenko 6-0 in the fight for the bronze medal in the World Cup . Points.

In 1996 Safar Gulijew won the European title for the third time in Budapest . He won over Vyacheslav Sergijenko from Ukraine , Marian Manolescu from Romania , Nick Zagranitschni , Francesco Cosentino and Ioannis Agatzanjan and thus reciprocated for the defeat in the final of the European Championship in 1995.

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , Safar Gulijew caused another scandal. He fought his way there after he was in his first fight against Sim Gwon-ho with 1: 2 techn. Was inferior in points, with wins over Mujaahid Maynard , USA, Bayram Özdemir , Turkey , Gela Papashvili from Georgia and Kang Yong-gyun from North Korea the bronze medal . Then he was convicted of doping and stripped of the bronze medal. He had taken the banned stimulant bromantane. In response to a Russian protest, however, he was granted the bronze medal again because the responsible laboratory allegedly made mistakes in securing the doping sample. In the lists of doping cases at the Olympic Games, however, he is still listed.

After the Olympic Games, Safar Gulijew was no longer used in any international championship. Nothing is known about his further life.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1992	3.	EM in Copenhagen	paper	behind Lars Rønningen , Norway a . Iliuță Dăscălescu , Romania , before Francesco Costantino , Italy a . Fuat Yildiz , Germany
1992	1.	Grand Prix of Germany in Kelheim	paper	before Fuat Yildiz, Lars Rønningen , Ramiz Celik, Turkey a . Iliuță Dăscălescu
1992	1.	Junior European Championship (Espoirs) in Székesfehérvár	paper	before Vardan Palojan , Armenia a . Witali Cheban, Moldova
1992	3.	World Cup in Besançon	paper	behind Wilber Sánchez , Cuba a . Isaac Ramaswany, USA
1993	2.	Intern. USA Championships in Concord	paper	behind Wilber Sánchez, in front of Hiroshi Kado , Japan a . Mujaahid Maynard , USA
1993	1.	EM 1993 in Istanbul	paper	before Nick Zagranitschni , Israel , Gela Papaschwili , Georgia a . Fariborz Besarati , Sweden
1993	2.	World Cup in Stockholm	paper	behind Wilber Sánchez, in front of Sim Gwon-ho , South Korea , Vardan Palojan u. Stefan Gartmann, Germany
1994	1.	EM in Athens	paper	before Jozsef Hamzok , Hungary , Ioannis Agatzanjan , Greece a . Alexander Mater Borchuk, Ukraine
1994	14th	World Cup in Tampere	paper	Winner: Wilber Sánchez ahead of Aljaksandr Paulau , Belarus a . Gela Papashvili
1995	2.	EM paper	in Besançon	behind Ioannis Agatzanjan , in front of Oleg Kutscherenko , Germany a. Aljaksandr Paulau
1995	3.	World Cup in Prague	paper	behind Sim Gwon-ho u. Hiroshi Kado , before Oleg Kutscherenko u. Mujaahid Maynard
1996	1.	EM in Budapest	paper	in front of Ioannis Agatzanjan, Francesco Costantino, Piotr Jablonski , Poland a. Aljaksandr Paulau
1996	bronze	OS in Atlanta	paper	after a defeat against Sim Gwon-ho, with victories over Hiroshi Kado , Mujaahid Maynard, Bayram Özdemir , Turkey, Gela Papaschwili and others. Kang Yong-gyun , North Korea

Note: all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, paper weight, then up to 48 kg body weight

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

Web links

• Profile of Safar Safar ogly Gulijew at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science
• Safar Safar ogly Gulijew in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )