Sinivie Boltic

Sinivie Boltic (born July 2, 1982 ) is a Nigerian wrestler . He won the 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2011 the African Championships, each in free style in light heavyweight .

Career

Sinivie Boltic started wrestling in 1996. He concentrates on the free style. He is a member of the Nigeria Sports Club Bayelsa State in Yenagoa , southern Nigeria. He is 1.80 meters tall and grew over the course of his career from welterweight to middleweight to light heavyweight.

In 1999 he took part in the All-African Games in Johannesburg for the first time and took 3rd place in the welterweight division behind Ian Du Toit from South Africa and Ibrahim Ahmed Salama from Egypt . In 2000 he finished 2nd behind Ian Du Toit at the African Championships. Sinivie Boltic also won a medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester . He came there in the middleweight division behind Nicholas Ugoalah from Canada and Anuj Kumar from India in 3rd place.

More Medals he also won at the All-African Games 2003 in Abuja / Nigeria, where he took 2nd place in the light heavyweight division after Saleh Moustapha Emara from Egypt in 2007, where he in the All-African Games in Algiers , again in light heavyweight, behind Saleh Moustapha Emara and Farid Djaout from Algeria came in 3rd place.

In 2004, Sinivie Boltic tried to qualify at the qualifying tournaments in Bratislava and Sofia for participation in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , but did not succeed with a 15th place and a 22nd place.

After the All African Games in 2007, he resigned from international competition. But when the former Canadian wrestling world champion Daniel Igali from Nigeria , Nigerian national coach, became the freestyle wrestler in 2009 , he made a comeback. The first successes under the training of Daniel Igali were already evident in 2010. He took part in a world championship that took place in Moscow for the first time this year and came there in the light heavyweight division after a victory over Wu Yunbilige, China and a defeat against Ruslan Sheikov from Belarus in 15th place. At the Commonwealth Games taking place in Delhi in October 2010 , he achieved his greatest international success to date, as he won the light heavyweight division there in front of Korey Jarvis from Canada and Leon Rattigan from England .

In 2011 Sinivie Boltic won his second title in an international championship at the African Championships in Dakar . He won there ahead of Ahmed Sewelam from Egypt, Rochdi Rahimi from Tunisia and Etienne van Huyssteen, South Africa. He then managed a big surprise at the 2011 World Cup in Istanbul , where he fought his way in the light heavyweight division with victories over Juan Esteban Martines Ibaguen, Colombia , Etienne van Huyssteen and Kurban Kurbanow from Uzbekistan , with defeats against Reza Yazdani , Iran and Ruslan Sheikov excellent 5th place, which earned him the right to start the 2012 Olympic Games in London . He is the only African wrestler who has so far qualified for these Olympic Games in free style.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1999	3.	All-African-Games in Johannesburg	Welter	behind Ian Du Toit , South Africa and Ibrahim Ahmed Aslama, Egypt
2000	2.	African Championships	Welter	behind Ian Du Toit and in front of Matar Sene, Senegal
2002	3.	Commonwealth Games in Manchester	medium	behind Nicholas Ugoalah , Canada and Anuj Kumar, India
2003	2.	All-African-Games in Abuja / Nigeria	Semi-difficult	behind Saleh Moustapha Emara, Egypt, in front of Nico Jacobs, Namibia
2004	15th	Olympic qualification tournament in Bratislava	Semi-difficult	Winner: Magomed Ibragimow, Uzbekistan ahead of Fatih Çakıroğlu , Turkey
2004	22nd	Olympic qualification tournament in Sofia	Semi-difficult	Winner: Aleksei Krupnjakow , Kyrgyzstan ahead of Peter Pecha, Slovakia
2007	3.	All-African-Games in Algiers	Semi-difficult	behind Saleh Moustapah Emara and Farid Djaout, Algeria
2010	15th	World Cup in Moscow	Semi-difficult	after a victory over Wu Yunbilige, China and a defeat against Ruslan Sheikov , Belarus
2010	1.	Commonwealth Games in Delhi	Semi-difficult	before Korey Jarvis, Canada and Leon Rattigan, England
2011	1.	African Championships in Dakar	Semi-difficult	before Ahmed Sewelam, Egypt, Rochdi Rahimi, Tunisia and Etienne van Huyssteen, South Africa
2011	5.	World Cup in Istanbul	Semi-difficult	after victories over Juan Esteban Martinez Ibaguen, Colombia , Etienne von Huyssteen and Kurban Kurbanow , Uzbekistan and defeats against Reza Yazdani , Iran and Ruslan Scheikow

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• WM = World Championship
• Welterweight, weight class up to 76 kg (until 2001) or up to 74 kg (since 2002), middle weight, weight class up to 84 kg and light heavyweight, weight class up to 96 kg body weight

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Foeldeak Wrestling Database website

Web links

Sinivie Boltic's fight against Kurban Kurbanow at the 2011 World Cup