Samwel Vladimirovich Danijeljan

Samwel Wladimirowitsch Danijeljan ( Russian Самвел Владимирович Даниелян , Armenian Սամվել Դանիելյան ; * February 4, 1971 ) is a former Soviet or Russian wrestler of Armenian origin. He became world champion in the Greco-Roman style flyweight in 1995 .

Career

Samwel Danijeljan was a member of the Soviet or Russian armed forces and a member of the sports club of the Army SKA Rostov-on-Don , where he was trained by Pyotr Tschinibalanz. He started wrestling as a teenager in 1980. He concentrated entirely on the Greco-Roman style. As an adult, at a height of 1.65 meters, he always wrestled with flyweight (back then up to 52 kg or 54 kg body weight).

Samwel Danijeljan was most successful during his junior years. Between 1987 and 1991 he fought for a total of five international titles (2 × world champion and 3 × European champion) in the various age groups (juniors and espoirs).

As a senior, he belonged to this age group from 1992, he naturally had to deal with strong competition in his weight class in Russia . Because of this, he did not have a permanent place at the international championships, but was used a few times and even represented Russia at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta .

In 1993 he made his debut in an international senior championship at the European Championships in Istanbul . He came in flyweight behind Natiq Eyvazov from Azerbaijan and Andrij Kalaschnykow from Ukraine in 3rd place. Then he was only used again at the 1995 European Championships in Besançon . In Besançon he just missed the medal ranks in flyweight with a 4th place behind Armen Nasarjan from Armenia , Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan from Germany and Andrij Kalaschnykow. He was sent to the World Championship in Prague that year by the Russian Wrestling Association and rewarded this trust by winning the flyweight world title in front of Armen Nazarjan and Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan.

At the European Championships in Budapest in 1996 , he disappointed as the reigning world champion, because he only came in 7th place there. But it was still used at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta . There he won the flyweight over Shamseddin Hudayberdiyev from Uzbekistan and Dariusz Jabłoński from Poland , but was defeated in his third fight by his old rival Armen Nazarjan, further victories over Nurum Dusenow from Kazakhstan and Lázaro Rivas from Cuba brought him into the battle for an Olympic bronze medal , which he lost to Andrij Kalaschnykow. He therefore had to return home with the ungrateful 4th place.

After that he was initially not used at any international championships. In 1999 he was in Sofia again at a European flyweight championship at the start. He presented himself there in excellent form and became European champion with victories over Serhij Sobokar, Ukraine, Wahan Juharjan , Armenia, Robert Sollie, Norway , Simeon Milew , Bulgaria and Dariusz Jabłoński . This was his last start on the international wrestling mat.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Result
1987	1.	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Katowice	up to 46 kg body weight	before Simeon Milew, Bulgaria a . Valentin Rebega, Romania
1988	1.	Junior European Championship (Espoirs) in Wałbrzych	paper	before Jan Ulbrich , GDR a . Piotr Chamera, Poland
1988	1.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Wolfurt / Austria	up to 46 kg body weight	in front of Kim Gi-hag, South Korea a . William Mendoza, Cuba
1988	1.	Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Athens	paper	before Wilber Sánchez , Cuba a . Tetsuya Yamamoto, Japan
1989	1.	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Witten	up to 50 kg body weight	before İsmail Aslan, Turkey , Jozsef Hamzok , Hungary a . Dariusz Jabłoński , Poland
1990	3.	Golden Grand Prix in Saarbrücken	To fly	behind Jon Rønningen , Norway a . Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan , USSR
1991	1.	Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Prievidza	To fly	before Dariusz Jabłoński u. Valentin Rebega
1991	1.	World Cup in Thessaloniki	To fly	before Shawn Sheldon , USA a . Min Kyung-gab, South Korea
1992	2.	World Cup in Besançon	To fly	behind Shawn Sheldon, in front of Raúl Martínez Alemán , Cuba
1993	3.	EM in Istanbul	To fly	behind Natiq Eyvazov , Azerbaijan a . Andrij Kalaschnykow , Ukraine
1995	4th	EM in Besançon	To fly	behind Armen Nazarjan , Armenia , Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan and Andrij Kalaschnykow
1995	1.	World Cup in Prague	To fly	in front of Armen Nasarjan, Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan, Germany, Khaled Al-Faraj, Syria u. Shawn Sheldon
1996	7th	EM in Budapest	To fly	Winner: Andrij Kalaschnykow in front of Armen Nazarjan and Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan
1996	4th	OS in Atlanta	To fly	with victories over Shamseddin Hudayberdiyev, Uzbekistan a . Dariusz Jabłoński , a defeat against Armen Nazarjan, victories over Nurum Dusenow, Kazakhstan a. Lázaro Rivas , Cuba a. a defeat against Andrii Kalashnikov
1999	1.	EM in Sofia	To fly	with victories over Serhij Sobokar, Ukraine, Wahan Juharjan , Armenia, Robert Sollie, Norway, Simeon Milew and Dariusz Jabłoński

Explanations

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championships, EM = European Championships
• Paper weight, until 1996 up to 48 kg body weight, then abolished, flyweight, until 1996 up to 52 kg, from 1997 to 2001 up to 54 kg body weight, then abolished

literature

• Trade journal Der Ringer

Web links

• Samwel Danijeljan in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )