Simeon Schterew (wrestler)

Simeon Schterew, 2016

Simeon Atanassow Schterew ( Bulgarian Симеон Щерев ; born February 8, 1959 in Mikrevo , Blagoevgrad Oblast ) is a former Bulgarian wrestler . He was 1981 World Champion and 1982, 1983 and 1984 European champion in free style in the featherweight .

Career

Simeon Schterew, who began wrestling as a teenager , was delegated to the Bulgarian top club Levski-Spartak Sofia after his first major successes in the junior sector, where experienced coaches trained him to become an excellent freestyle wrestler. Already in 1979 he made his debut at international championships with a victory at the Balkan Games in Yambol in featherweight. In the same year he was vice world champion of the junior featherweight division in Ulaanbaatar behind the Soviet athlete Magomet-Gassan Abuschew , but in front of Raúl Cascaret , Kuba and Kazuhito Sakae from Japan .

In 1980 he was also used at the European Championships in Prievidza with the seniors. He reached there with four wins and one defeat against Magomed-Gassan Abuschew in the final, the 2nd place. Not he, but the more experienced Miho Dukow , was sent to the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow by the Bulgarian Wrestling Association .

At the European Championships in 1981 in Łódź , Simeon Schterew was used again. He landed five wins in Łódź, beating u. a. the two German representatives Erhard Pocher from Jena and Michael Kuhn from Witten . In the semifinals he was defeated by the Soviet athlete Busai Ibragimow on points and came in 3rd place. Simeon Schterew celebrated the greatest success of his career at the world championships in Skoplje that year . He became world featherweight champion with seven wins . His toughest competitors were Kokichi Sugino from Japan , Jozsef Orban from Hungary and Marian Skubacz from Poland .

1982 Simeon Schterew was in Varna for the first time also European champion , this time he also managed a victory over Busai Ibragimow, but could not defend his title at the World Cup in Edmonton. The reason for this was that the Olympic champion and multiple world champion in bantamweight Sergei Beloglasow had risen to the featherweight division and defeated Simeon Schterew in the final on points.

In 1983 Simeon Schterew won his second European title in Budapest ahead of the new Soviet starter Ivan Grigoryev and his old rivals Jozsef Orban and Marian Skubacz. At the 1983 World Cup in Kiev he reached 3rd place after losing in the pool final against Viktor Alexejew from the USSR by defeating Kazuhito Sakae from Japan.

In 1984 Simeon could only start at the European Championships in Jönköping because of the boycott of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles by the socialist states . He was there again in excellent shape and was European champion for the third time. In the final battle, he defeated Viktor Alexejew, against whom he had lost at the World Cup last year, but just deserved 8: 6 points.

In 1985 Simeon Schterew started at the European Championships in Leipzig for the first time in the lightweight to counter the strenuous training out of the way. In this new weight class, he immediately achieved 3rd place. At the world championship of the same year in Budapest , he won no medal for the first time in an international championship. After a defeat against Arsen Fadsayev from the USSR in the pool final, he surprisingly lost to the Canadian Pat Sullivan in the battle for the bronze medal and had to be satisfied with 4th place.

In 1986 and 1987, however, he again won three medals at the four starts he made. At the European Championships in 1986 in Athens he was after a final defeat against Abdulla Magomedow from the USSR Vice European Champion and at the World Championships of the same year in Budapest he finished third by beating Andre Metzger from the USA . He also took this place at the European Championships in 1987 in Veliko Tarnovo, while he only finished 5th in the lightweight championship in 1987 in Clermont-Ferrand .

In 1988 Simeon Schterew finally got the chance to fight for an Olympic medal in Seoul . He had trained back to featherweight because he figured he had greater chances of a medal in this weight class. His expectations were also met, even if he did not win the gold medal. The way to do this was blocked by the outstanding American John Smith , who defeated him in the pool final. In the battle for the bronze medal , he then defeated the Iranian Ali Akbar Fallah.

After a long break on the international wrestling mat, which lasted from 1989 to 1994, Simeon Schterew tried a comeback at the 1995 World Championships in Atlanta with a view to the 1996 Olympic Games in the same city where he wanted to start again. This went wrong, however, because he dropped out early in Atlanta and only finished 14th, which ended his comeback attempt.

Simeon Schterew is now a coach in the Bulgarian Wrestling Federation.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1979	1.	Balkan Games in Yambol	feather	in front of Traian Marinescu, Romania , Georgios Athanasiadis , Greece and Nesamettin Oruc, Turkey
1979	2.	Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Ulaanbaatar	feather	behind Magomet-Gassan Abuschew , USSR a . before Raúl Cascaret , Cuba , Kazuhito Sakae , Japan a . Jukka Rauhala , Finland
1980	2.	EM in Prievidza	feather	with victories over Gigel Anghel, Romania, Risto Kreditv , Yugoslavia , Jan Szymanski, Poland a . Zoltan Szalontai , Hungary a . a loss to Mogemed-Gassan Abuschew
1981	3.	Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Freiburg im Breisgau	feather	behind Busai Ibragimow u. Timor Hasukov, bde. USSR u. before Zoltan Szalontai, Marian Skubacz, Poland a. Michael Kuhn , FRG
1981	3.	EM in Łódź	feather	with victories over Panajotis Keouphais, Greece , Erhard Pocher , GDR , Michael Kuhn, Josef Culak, CSSR a . Antonio La Bruna, Italy a . a loss to Busai Ibragimov
1981	1.	World Cup in Skoplje	feather	with victories over Traian Marinescu, Austin Atasie, Nigeria , Richard Szelmowski, France , Lee Tung Kum, North Korea , Kokichi Sugino , Japan, Jozsef Orban , Hungary and others. Marian Skubacz
1982	1.	EM in Varna	feather	in front of Gambaz, Turkey, Busai Ibragimow, Antonio La Bruna, Marian Skubacz u. Jordanko Janev, Yugoslavia
1982	2.	World Cup in Edmonton	feather	behind Sergej Beloglasow , USSR a. before Jozsef Orban, Randy Lewis , USA, Marian Skubacz u. Traian Marinescu
1983	1.	EM in Budapest	feather	before Iwan Grigorjew , USSR, Jozsef Orban , Marian Skubacz , Antonio La Bruna and others Gerard Santoro , France
1983	3.	World Cup in Kiev	feather	behind Viktor Alexejew , USSR a. Lee Roy Smith , USA a. before Kazuhito Sakae, Traian Marinescu u. Awirmediin Enchee , Mongolia
1984	3.	"Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig	Light	behind Bernd Jablonski , DDR a. Busai Ibragimow and others before Mustafow, Bulgaria a. Andrzej Kubiak , Poland
1984	1.	EM in Jönköping	feather	with victories over Jozsef Orban, Antonio La Bruna, Traian Marinescu, Martin Herbster , BRD a. Viktor Alexeyev
1985	3.	EM in Leipzig	Light	with victories over Oscar Seghers, Belgium , Jukka Rauhala, Cendea, Romania a. Zoltan Szalontai et al. a loss to Fevzi Şeker , Turkey
1985	4th	World Cup in Budapest	Light	behind Arsen Fadsajew , USSR, Bujandelgeriin Bold , Mongolia a. Pat Sullivan , Canada a. before Zoltan Szalontei u. Andrzej Kubiak
1986	2.	EM in Athens	Light	behind Abdulla Magomedow , USSR a. before Jan Szymanski, Jukka Rauhala , Georgios Athanasiadis u. Ahmet Çakıcı , FRG
1986	3.	World Cup in Budapest	Light	behind Arsen Fadsayev et al. Andre Metzger , USA a. before Eugenio Montero, Cuba, Jukka Rauhala a. David McKay , Canada
1987	3.	EM in Veliko Tarnovo / Bulgaria	Light	behind Arsen Fadsayev et al. Georgios Athanasiadis u. before Jukka Rauhala, Daniel Santoro and Daniel Ionita, Romania
1987	5.	World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand	Light	behind Arsen Fadsajew, Georgios Athanasiadis, Andre Metzger u. Kōsei Akaishi , Japan a. in front of Park Jang-Soon , South Korea
1988	3.	EM in Manchester	feather	behind Stepan Sarkisjan , USSR a. Karsten Polky , GDR a. before Giovanni Schillaci , Italy , Jörg Helmdach , FRG a. Qatar M. Ali, Turkey
1988	bronze	OS in Seoul	feather	behind John Smith , USA a. Stepan Sarkisjan u. before Ali Akbar Fallah, Jörg Helmdach u. Awirmediin Enchee , Mongolia
1988	1.	FILA Grand Prix tournament in Budapest	feather	before Jozsef Orban, Giovanni Schillaci a. Rudolf Markus, Hungary
1995	14th	World Cup in Atlanta	Light	Winner: Arajik Geworgjan , Armenia ahead of Ali Akbar Fallah u. Jesus Rodriguez, Cuba

Note: all competitions in free style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, featherweight, up to 62 kg, lightweight, up to 68 kg body weight

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• Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 5/1980, page 10, 5/1981, page 7, 10/1981, page 5, 5/6/1982, pages 5/6, 9/1982, page 5, 9/1983, page 9, 10/1983, page 6, 5/1984, page 11, 5/1985, page 12, 11/1985, pages 5/6, 5/1986, pages 5/6, 11/1986, page 10, 6 / 1987, page 9, 5/1988, pages 4/5, 10/1988, page 12, 9/1987, page 10, 9/1995, page 8
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
• Bulgarian National Olympic Committee website (in English)

Web links

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