Sergei Alexandrovich Kosorotov

Sergei Alexandrowitsch Kossorotow ( Russian Сергей Александрович Косоротов ; born April 15, 1969 in Samara , Kuibyshev Oblast , RSFSR ) is a former Russian judoka who competed for the Soviet Union until 1991 . He was world champion in 1991 and European champion in 1990 and 1995.

Athletic career

The 1.94 m tall Sergei Kosorotow fought in the heavyweight division and in the open class. In 1990 he was the Soviet heavyweight champion.

At the European Championships in Helsinki in 1989 he competed in the open class and lost in the round of 16 against the Belgian Harry Van Barneveld . With victories over the German Jochen Plate , the Hungarian László Tolnai and the French Roger Vachon , Kossorotow won a bronze medal. A year later he entered the heavyweight division at the 1990 European Championships in Frankfurt am Main. He defeated the Hungarian Imre Csősz in the second round , the Bulgarian Damian Stoikow in the quarter-finals and Jochen Plate in the semi-finals. In the final he met Harry Van Barneveld and won his first international title. Two and a half months later, Kossorotow won the final of the Goodwill Games in Seattle against the Cuban Frank Moreno . At the European Championships in Prague in 1991, he defeated the Poland Rafał Kubacki in the semifinals , and in the final he was defeated by the German Henry Stöhr . Two months later, the 1991 World Championships took place in Barcelona . In the second round of the heavyweight division, Kossorotow defeated the Romanian Marian Grozea . This was followed by victories over Milan Řezáč from Czechoslovakia in the quarter-finals and the Japanese Naoya Ogawa in the semi-finals. With his victory over Frank Moreno, Kossorotow was world champion. At the European Championships in 1992 he won in the quarterfinals against Harry Van Barneveld and in the semifinals against the Yugoslav Dmitar Milinković . In the final Kossorotow was defeated by the German Frank Möller . For the Olympic Games in Barcelona Kosorotov was not taken into account, instead Dawit Khachaleishvili joined the United Team and won the gold medal.

From 1993 Sergei Kosorotov competed for Russia. At the European Championships in Athens Kosorotov took seventh place, with the European champion Dawit Khachaleishvili from Georgia and the fifth-placed Belarusian Ruslan Sharapau , two Judokas from the former Soviet Union were in front of him. Five months later Kossorotow lost in his first fight Frank Möller at the 1993 World Championships in Hamilton. He won a bronze medal with four wins in the Hope Round. After a less than successful year in 1994, Kossorotow defeated the Dutch Denny Ebbers in the semifinals at the European Championships in Birmingham in 1995 and Frank Möller in the final, thus winning his second European title. At the 1995 World Championships in Chiba Kosorotov lost his opening fight in the heavyweight division and was eliminated. In the open class, he defeated the Japanese Shinichi Shinohara in the semifinals , and in the final he was defeated by the French David Douillet . In the spring of 1996 Kosorotow defeated the Turkish Selim Tataroglu in the semi-finals of the heavyweight division , in the final he was defeated by Dawit Khachaleishvili. Two months later at the Olympic Games in Atlanta he lost in the quarterfinals to the Chinese Liu Shenggang . In the hope round , he defeated the Romanian Alexandru Lungu and finished seventh after his defeat against Frank Möller. At the 1997 World Championships , Tamerlan Tmenow competed for Russia in the heavyweight division . Kossorotow defeated the Spaniard Ernesto Pérez in the round of 16 and the Dutchman Dennis van der Geest in the quarterfinals in the open class . After defeats against Rafał Kubacki and Harry Van Barneveld, Kossorotow finished fifth. After a first-round defeat in the open class at the European Championships in 1999, Kosorotov's international career ended.

Web links

• Tournament results at judoinside.com
• Sergei Alexandrowitsch Kosorotow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
2. ↑ European Championships 1993 at judoinside.com