Shamil Kerimowitsch Serikow

Shamil Kerimowitsch Serikow

Shamil Kerimowitsch Serikow ( Russian Шамиль Керимович Сериков ; born March 5, 1956 in Almaty , Kazakh SSR ; † November 22, 1989 ) was a Soviet wrestler . He was 1980 Olympic gold medalist in the Greco-Roman style bantamweight.

Career

Shamil Serikow, a Kazakh, began as a teenager with rings . He became a member of Dinamo Alma-Ata , today's Almaty . In this sports association, which brought together the best wrestlers in South Kazakhstan during the Soviet Union , he soon developed into a world-class wrestler in the Greco-Roman style. He was trained by A. Scharkow.

He made his breakthrough into the absolute top class of the Soviet Union in 1978 when he was the Soviet bantamweight champion in front of Vasily Karatajew a. Vitaly Konstantinov became. He was therefore sent to the World Cup in Mexico City in the same year . Shamil was able to fully convince there and become world champion with seven wins . In the finals he defeated Ivan Frgić from Yugoslavia and Pasquale Passarelli from the Federal Republic of Germany .

1979 was also extremely successful for Shamil. First he was European bantamweight champion in Bucharest ahead of Pasquale Passarelli and then he successfully defended the 1978 world championship title in San Diego in the fall . Again it was Pasquale Passarelli who had to bow to Shamil in the final battle.

Shamil Serikov then celebrated his fourth victory in a row at a major international championship at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow . As a result of the Olympic boycott by the federal government, Pasquale Passarelli could not start there. Shamil fought six wins and the gold medal in the final against Józef Lipień from Poland .

For the last time Schamil was at the European championship 1981 in Gothenburg at an international championship at the start. He was no longer in the form from 1978 to 1980, lost to Piotr Michalik from Poland and Pasquale Passarelli and had to be content with 5th place. At the Soviet championship that year he only finished 9th. From 1982 he was no longer part of the Soviet national team.

He was therefore no longer used in any international championships, but was still a trainer in the youth field for a few years. Shamil Serikov died in 1989 at the age of only 33. In September 2013 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Ba = bantam weight, back then up to 57 kg body weight)

• 1976, 1st place , IV. Spartakiade of the police organs of the social countries (juniors), GR, Ba, ahead of Sidorkiewicz, Poland and Parvanow, Bulgaria ;
• 1978, 1st place , "Iwan-Poddubny" tournament in Minsk , GR, Ba, ahead of Ryszard Swierad , Poland a. Turanian, Iran ;
• 1978, 1st place , World Cup in Mexico City , GR, Ba, with victories over Leonel Perez, Cuba , Josef Krysta , CSSR , Herbert Nigsch, Austria , Yuji Asa, Japan , Józef Lipień , Poland, Ivan Frgić , Yugoslavia and others. Pasquale Passarelli , FRG ;
• 1979, 1st place , Proßer Prize of the FRG in Aschaffenburg , GR, Ba, ahead of Georgi Donew, Bulgaria, Selichi Osanei, Japan, Pasquale Passarelli u. Brian Gust, USA ;
• 1979, 3rd place , tournament in Klippan / Sweden , GR, Ba, behind Benni Ljungbeck , Sweden a. Boris Borislaw, Bulgaria a. before Morten Brekke , Norway , Adam Kierpacz , Poland and Rolf Krauss , FRG;
• 1979, 1st place , EM in Bucharest , GR, Ba, with victories over Benni Ljungbeck, Antonio Caltabiano , Italy , Einari Suutari, Finland , Mihai Boțilă , Romania , Gyula Molnar , Hungary, Josef Krysta u. Pasquale Passarelli;
• 1979, 1st place , "Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig , GR, Ba, ahead of Pawel Bowalin, USSR, Gyula Molnar, Wladiyslaw Pakuszewski, Poland, Bernd Drechsel , GDR a . István Tóth , Hungary;
• 1979, 1st place , World Championships in San Diego , GR, Ba, with victories over Gyula Molnar, Diego La Bruto, France , Haralambos Holidis , Greece , Ronny Sidge , Norway, Antonio Caltabiano u. Pasquale Passarelli;
• 1980, gold medal , OS in Moscow , GR, Ba, with victories over Julien Mewis, Belgium , Mihai Boțilă, Antonio Caltabiano, Josef Krysta, Benni Ljungbeck u. Józef Lipień;
• 1981, 2nd place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg, GR, Ba, behind Piotr Michalik , Poland a. before Rolf Krauss, Pasquale Passarelli, Benni Ljungbeck u. Dieter Schwind, FRG;
• 1981, 5th place , EM in Göteborg , GR, Ba, with victories over Michel Mercader, France, Nicolae Zamfir , Romania a. Einari Suutari et al. Defeats against Piotr Michalik u. Pasquale Passarelli

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• 1) Trade journal "Athletik", Nos .: 01/1977, page 24, 05/1977, page 19
• 2) Trade journal "Der Ringer", Nos .: 02/1979, page 8, 03/1979, page 12, 05/1979, page 9, 07/1979, pages 9-12, 08/1979, page 4, 09 / 1979, page 7, 08/1980, page 6, 03/1981, pages 7/8,
• 3) Website of the Russian Wrestling Federation

Web links

• Shamil Serikow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Profile of Schamil Serikow at the Institute for Applied Training Science

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Outstanding Class of 2013 to Enter FILA Hall of Fame , accessed on April 16, 2017 (English)
2. ↑ Wrestling at the 1980 Moskva Summer Games Men's Bantamweight (English)