Sergei Anatolyevich Zwir

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Sergei Anatoljewitsch Zwir ( Russian Сергей Анатольевич Цвир ; * February 8, 1974 ) is a former Russian wrestler . He was world champion in 1997 in the Greco-Roman style middleweight division.

Career

Sergei Zwir began wrestling as a teenager in 1985. He concentrated on the Greco-Roman style. His club was Trade Union SC Moscow , where he was mainly looked after by the coaches M. Sergejew and Efremow.

Sergei Zwir appeared on the international wrestling mat for the first time in 1993. He was at the Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Athens that year, but only came in 10th there. Things went much better for him at the European Junior Championships (Espoirs) in Istanbul in 1994, because he won the light heavyweight title there ahead of Marek Sitnik from Poland.

Among the seniors, with whom he had to start from 1995, he succeeded in Russia against his competitors, especially Murat Kardanow and Sergei Nassewitsch . Already at his first start at an international senior championship, the European championship in Besançon, he won the European title with a victory in the decisive fight against Christo Stantschew from Bulgaria. At the world championship of the same year in Prague he lost to the new Turkish wrestling star Hamza Yerlikaya and only reached 4th place.

Sergei Zwir was also unable to fully convince at the European Championships in Budapest in 1996 , because he only achieved 6th place. Nevertheless, the Russian Wrestling Federation held on to him and also sent him to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta . There he won the middleweight division in his first fight over the Hungarian 1992 Olympic champion Peter Farkas . In his second fight he met the German European champion Thomas Zander from Aalen . Overly motivated, he let himself be carried away to a gross foul against Zander in this fight when he overextended his right elbow joint in the style of a judo fighter. The judge had no choice but to disqualify Zwir for this foul. He was then burdened with four missing points. Sergei Zwir then won his next fight over the South Koreans Park Myung-Suk, but surprisingly lost in his fourth fight against the Belarusian Walerei Zilent on points and had to retire. In the final accounts, he was therefore only 10th.

Sergei Zwir then proved at the 1997 World Cup in Wrocław that he can win with fair means . He won there over Emzar Makaradze from Georgia , Gotcha Ziziaschwili from Israel , Thomas Zander and Hamza Yerlikaya and became world champion in a superior style.

At the European Championships in Minsk in 1998 , he lost the middleweight final against Hamza Yerlikaya and came in 2nd place. In the following years he was only used in 2000 at an Olympic qualifying tournament in Besançon , where he finished 2nd after a defeat against Hamza Yerlikaya. Another Russian wrestler started at the 2000 Olympic Games. Why Sergei Zwir, who was only 26 years old, was no longer used by the Russian Wrestling Association, was not known.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, then up to 82 kg or 90 kg body weight)

  • 1995, 1st place , EM in Besançon , GR, Wed, with victories over Jean-Pierre Wafflard, Murad Sargisjan, Armenia a . Christo Stantschew, Bulgaria ;
  • 1995, 4th place , World Cup in Prague , GR, Wed, behind Hamza Yerlikaya , Turkey, Gocha Tschitschuaschwili u. Thomas Zander, Germany;
  • 1996, 10th place , Olympic Games in Atlanta , GR, Wed, after a victory over Peter Farkas, a Disq. Defeat against Thomas Zander, a victory over Park Myung-suk, South Korea and the like. a loss to Valery Zilent;
  • 1997, 1st place , World Championship in Wrocław , GR, Wed, with victories over Emzar Makaradze, Georgia, Gotcha Ziziaschwili, Israel , Thomas Zander and Hamza Yerlikaya;
  • 1998, 2nd place , EM in Minsk , GR, Wed, behind Hamza Yerlikaya u. before Martin Lidberg, Thomas Zander and Gotcha Ziziaschwili;
  • 2000, 2nd place , Olympic qualification tournament in Clermont-Ferrand , GR, Wed, behind Hamza Yerlikaya u. before Mohamad Abd el Fatah, Egypt a . Marcin Letki, Poland

swell

  • Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers 9/1993, page 18, 9/1994, page 26, 5/1995, pages 7–9, 10/1995, pages 7–9, 4/1996, pages 9–13, 6/1996, Page 16, 8/1996, pages 6–9, 10/1997, pages 7–10,
  • International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

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personal data
SURNAME Zwir, Sergei Anatolyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zwir, Sergei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1974