Sahit Prizreni

Sahit Prizreni (born February 23, 1982 in Kukës , Albania ) is an Albanian- Australian wrestler .

Career

Sahit Prizreni started wrestling in 1992 as a teenager. He became a member of SC Tirana . He is trained by Sylejman Shala and only starts in free style. At a height of 1.67 meters, it starts in featherweight, the weight class up to 60 kg body weight. From 2005 to 2007 Sahit Prizreni stayed in the United States and was a member of the New York Athletic Club (NYAC) . In 2008 he was the flag bearer of the Albanian team at the Olympic Games in Beijing . He has been wrestling for SV Germania Weingarten in the German Bundesliga since the 2009/10 season .

Sahit Prizreni's international career began in 1999 with participation in the Junior World Championships (Cadets) in Łódź . In the weight class up to 50 kg body weight, however, he was only able to place himself in 16th place. Things went much better for him at the European Junior Championships (Cadets) 2000 in Bratislava , where he came in 4th place in the bantamweight division. His first medal win at an international championship was then at the European Junior Championship (Juniors) in Tirana in 2002 . He came in third behind Mawlet Batirow from Russia and Bessarion Gotschaschwili from Georgia .

In 2003 he started at the Featherweight World Championships in New York . He won there over Gergő Wöller from Hungary and lost to Arif Abdullayev from Azerbaijan , with which he was eliminated according to the rules of the time and only finished 23rd. In 2004 he qualified for participation in the Olympic Games in Athens . The wrestling luck was not particularly good for him in Athens either, because he lost there against Bezik Aslanasvili from Greece and Massoud Moustafa Jokar from Iran and ended up in 17th place.

Sahit Prizreni only took part in an international championship again in 2007 after his stay in the USA. He started at the World Championships this year in Baku and has improved a lot. He came there to victories over Mike Zadick from the United States, Armen Karapetjan from Armenia and Murad Ramazanow from Macedonia . In the semifinals he lost to Anatoli Guidea from Bulgaria , but remained victorious in the battle for the bronze medal against He Qin from China .

At the European Championships in Tampere in 2008 he won featherweight over Aleksandrs Truskins from Latvia , but then lost again to Anatoli Guidea and reached 9th place. By winning a medal at the 2007 World Cup, Sahit Prizreni was automatically qualified for participation in the Beijing Olympics. In Beijing he was eliminated in the first round with a defeat against Basar Basargurujew from Kyrgyzstan , because he did not reach the final battle in the further course of the tournament. He ended up in 16th place.

In 2009 Sahit Prizreni started only at the Mediterranean Games in Pescara and finished there in 5th place in the lightweight. In 2010 he took part in the World Cup in Moscow . He came there to a victory over the Inger Yogeshwar Dutt, but was defeated in his next fight by the Cuban Alejandro Valdes Tobier, with which he was eliminated and only finished 18th.

In 2011 he fought his way to the final at the European Featherweight Championships in Dortmund with victories over Vincenzo Rizziotto, Italy, Manfred Ewald , Germany and Wasil Fedorischin from Ukraine. In this he lost to Opan Sat from Russia quite clearly on points (0: 2 rounds, 1: 7 points). He won an EM silver medal with it . At the World Cup this year in Istanbul he was defeated in the first round against Andrei Perpeliță from Moldova just on points (1: 2 rounds, 4: 5 points). Since Perpeliță did not reach the final, the World Cup was already over for him and he ended up in 28th place.

Meanwhile, Australian, he will represent his new home at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1999	16.	Junior World Championships (Cadets) in Łódź	up to 50 kg body weight	Winner: Sushil Kumar , India ahead of Batras Tidijew, Russia
2000	4th	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Bratislava	To fly	behind Vyacheslav Chernov, Russia, Bessarion Gotschaschwili , Georgia a . Yuri Golub, Ukraine
2001	5.	Mediterranean Games in Tunis	Bantam	behind Tevfik Odabasi , Turkey , Themistoklis Iakovidis, Greece , Ali Mohamed Hassan Abu Taleb, Egypt u. Mohamed Amine Benhammadi, Algeria
2002	3.	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Tirana	To fly	behind Mawlet Batirow , Russia a. Bessarion Gotschaschwili, in front of Florin Buga, Romania a. Thomas Sedlmeier, Germany
2003	23.	World Cup in New York	feather	with a victory over Gergő Wöller , Hungary a . a loss to Arif Abdullayev , Azerbaijan
2004	10.	Olympic qualification tournament in Bratislava	feather	Winner: Kamal Ustarchanow, Russia ahead of Anatoli Guidea , Bulgaria a . Wassyl Fedoryschyn , Ukraine
2004	8th.	Olympic qualification tournament in Sofia	feather	Winner: Kenji Inoue , Japan ahead of Ibrahim Abdulrahman, Qatar a . Gergő Wöller
2004	17th	OS in Athens	feather	after defeats against Bezik Aslanasvili , Greece a . Massoud Moustafa Jokar , Iran
2005	4th	Sunkist-Kids-Intern.-Open in Tempe (Arizona)	feather	behind Saeed Azarbayjani , Canada , Travis Lee, USA a . Shinya Odate, Japan
2005	1.	"Dave Schultz" Memorial in Colorado Springs	feather	before Michael Lightner u. Zach Roberson, bde. USA & Yogeshwar Dutt, India
2006	3.	Sunkist-Kids-Intern.-Open in Tempe (Arizona)	feather	behind Chris Fleeger u. Zach Roberson, bde. USA, before Shawn Bunch , USA a. Sengedordschiin Süchbaatar , Mongolia
2007	2.	"Dave Schultz" Memorial in Colorado Springs	feather	behind Travis Lee, in front of Kendall Cross u. Angel Cejudo, all USA
2007	3.	World Cup in Baku	feather	with victories over Mike Zadick , USA, Armen Karapetjan , Armenia a . Murad Ramazanow , Macedonia , a loss to Anatoli Guidea u. a you about He Qin , China
2008	9.	EM in Tampere	feather	with a victory over Aleksandrs Truskins, Latvia a . a loss to Anatoly Guidea
2008	16.	OS in Beijing	feather	after losing to Basar Basargurujew , Kyrgyzstan
2009	5.	Mediterranean Games in Pescara	Light	behind Ilcham Muhammed, Turkey, Mazen Kadmani, Syria , Mohamed Ali Belayech, Tunisia u. Anastasios Akritidis, Greece
2010	18th	World Cup in Moscow	feather	after a victory over Yogeshwar Dutt, India and a defeat against Alejandro Valdes Tobier, Cuba
2011	2.	EM in Dortmund	feather	after victories over Vincenzo Rizzotto, Italy, Manfred Ewald , Germany and Wasil Fedorischin , Ukraine and a defeat against Opan Sat , Russia
2011	16.	Tournament in Sassari	Light	Winner: Gheorghe Bucur , Romania ahead of Didier Païs , France
2011	28.	World Cup in Istanbul	feather	after a loss to Andrei Perpeliță, Moldova
2016	19th	Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro	-65 kg

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Flyweight, until 2002 up to 54 kg, bantam weight, until 2002 up to 58 kg, featherweight, since 2003 up to 60 kg and the like. Lightweight, since 2003 up to 66 kg body weight

swell

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prizreni Sahit. In: Rio 2016. Accessed August 6, 2016 . 

Web links

• Profile of Sahit Prizreni at the Institute for Applied Training Science