Sharur Vardanyan

Sharur Wardanjan (born April 4, 1988 ) is a Swedish wrestler . He took 3rd place in the Greco-Roman style in the lightweight (up to 66 kg body weight) at the European Championships in Vilnius in 2009 .

Career

Sharur Wardanyan, the son of Armenian parents, began wrestling in Sweden. He belongs to the sports club Spaervaegens BK Stockholm . He only wrestles in the Greco-Roman style and is trained by Jimmy Samuelsson . In the 2008/2009 season he was in the German Bundesliga for SV Wacker Burghausen .

In Sweden he achieved his first successes at national events as a youth and was also able to place in the front field at international junior championships. So he came in the European Junior Championships 2005 in Tirana in featherweight on the 5th place. At the Swedish Junior Championships in 2007 he reached 2nd place in the lightweight and came in the same year at the Swedish Senior Championships behind Robert Rosengren and Vahan Juharjan in 3rd place.

In 2008 he became Swedish junior welterweight champion and finished 11th with two wins at the junior world welterweight championship this year in Istanbul . At the Nordic Championship 2008 he came in welterweight behind Joakim Aardalen from Norway and Valtteri Moisio from Finland in 3rd place.

He made a big step forward in 2009. At the Swedish championship of this year he had to be content with 2nd place behind Vahan Juharjan, but he was used at the European Seniors Championship in Vilnius and won there a victory over Chosrow Melikjan from Armenia , a defeat against Michail Semenow from Belarus and victories over Frederik Ekström from Denmark and Damian Zuba from Poland the bronze medal .

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
2004	1.	Mälar Cup (Juniors)	feather	before Josef Sundberg, Sweden a . Toni Turu, Finland
2005	5.	Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Tirana	feather	behind Wladimir Lohoyda, Ukraine , Rafik Gusseinow , Azerbaijan , Giga Chapidze, Georgia u. Vasif Arzimanoglu, Turkey
2006	11.	"Kristjan-Palulalu" Memorial in Tallinn	Light	Winner: Rustem Amajew, Russia ahead of Rafael Toijanen, Finland a. Vladimir Pogudin , Russia
2006	5.	Intern. Germany Cup (Juniors) in Frankfurt (Oder)	Light	behind Refik Ayvazoglu, Turkey, Tamas Löricz , Hungary , Robert Rosenberg, Sweden a . Evgeni Siliwontschik, Belarus
2006	10.	Cup Haparanda	Light	Winner: Alexander Chwoschch , Ukraine ahead of Tiziano Corriga, Italy a . Serjan Simonjan, Russia
2007	10.	Junior European Championship in Belgrade	Welter	Winner: Emrah Kus, Turkey ahead of Magomed Aschchabow, Russia a. Damian Hartmann, Germany
2007	17th	Junior World Championships in Beijing	Welter	after a defeat against Xin Xiaowei, China (1: 2 rounds, 4: 5 technical points)
2007	5.	Intern. Germany Cup (Juniors) in Frankfurt (Oder)	Welter	behind Damian Janikowski, Poland a. Ewgeni Siliwontschik, Dimitri Arabadschi, Ukraine a. Alexander Visnakovs, Latvia
2008	5.	Vantaa Cup	Light	behind Ruslan Belcharojew , Russia, Alexander Chwoschch, Jani Hermansson, Finland a. Zaur Umadow, Russia
2008	11.	Junior World Championships in Istanbul	Welter	with victories over Martin Szabo, Hungary a. Nassan Hayder Kareem, Iraq u. Losses against Sayed Abdevahi, Iran a . Rafik Gusseinow
2008	3.	Nordic championship	Welter	behind Joakim Aardalen, Norway a . Valtteri Moisio, Finland, before Magnus Umda, Estonia
2009	3.	EM in Vilnius	Light	with victory over Chosrow Melikjan, Armenia , defeat against Michail Semenow , Belarus a. Victories over Frederik Ekström, Denmark a . Damian Zuba, Poland
2009	16.	World Cup in Herning / Denmark	Light	after defeats against Sunil Kumar , India a . Ambako Watschadze , Russia

swell

• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Trade journal Der Ringer ,
• Swedish Wrestling Federation website,
• Website of SV Wacker Burghausen

Web links

• Profile of Sharur Wardanjan at the Institute for Applied Training Science