Syarhej Djamyashkevich

Syarhey Mikalayevich Dsjamjaschkewitsch ( Belarusian Сяргей Мікалаевіч Дзямяшкевіч , Russian Сергей Николаевич Демяшкевич , Sergei Nikolayevich Demjaschkewitsch * 28. August 1966 ) is a former Soviet and Belarusian wrestler . He was world heavyweight champion in 1990 and won the bronze medal in the Greco-Roman heavyweight division at the 1992 Olympic Games .

Career

Syarhej Djamjaschkewitsch grew up in Belarus and began wrestling as a teenager in 1977. He concentrated on the Greco-Roman style. As a student, the blond giant, who soon weighed around 100 kg with a height of 1.88 m, was a member of "Burewestnik" or the Minsk University Sports Club . In the junior division he was not able to fully assert himself against the strong competition in the Soviet Union . In 1988 he was used in a World Cup tournament in Athens in the light heavyweight division and won this tournament in front of the Greek Anagastopoulos, the Cuban Cruz and the 1985 world light heavyweight champion Michael Houck from the USA .

In 1989 he was used for the first time at an international championship, the world championship in Martigny / Switzerland in the light heavyweight division. There he could not quite meet the expectations placed on him, because he lost to the two German starters Roger Gries from Mömbris -Königshofen and Maik Bullmann on Frankfurt (Oder) and had to be content with 5th place.

In 1990 he switched to the heavyweight division to avoid the exhausting workout. He immediately gained a foothold in this weight class and was convincingly world heavyweight champion at the World Championships in Rome . On the way to this victory he beat u. a. the 1988 Olympic champion Andrzej Wroński from Poland and the 1989 world champion Gerhard Himmel from Aschaffenburg , his two immediate predecessors as title holders. The Soviet head coach Gennady Sapunov even called him the best wrestler of the entire world championship.

Sjarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch was just as superior as in Rome at the European Championships in 1990 in Aschaffenburg . There he won ahead of Andreas Steinbach from Germany and Sándor Major from Hungary . All the more surprising was his defeat at this year's World Cup in Varna / Bulgaria . He found his master at this championship in the Cuban Héctor Milián . Milián, an extremely strong wrestler in the ground fight, brought out such a large point advantage in the ground fight against Dzjamjaschkewitsch that he could no longer catch up.

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , Demyashkevich and Milián met again in the decisive battles. Milián won again, making him Olympic champion . Syarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch even had to hand over the silver medal to Dennis Koslowski from the United States and be satisfied with the bronze medal .

In 1993, Sjarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch started after the collapse of the Soviet Union at the European Championships in Istanbul for Belarus . In the heavyweight division, he succeeded in winning his second title at a European championship. On the way to this title he defeated u. a. Olympic champion Andrzej Wroński (6: 2 points) and the extremely strong Russian starter Ibragim Tschawtschalow (4: 0 points). At the 1993 World Cup in Stockholm Andrzej Wroński retaliated for this defeat. He defeated Sjarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch in the 2nd round with 6-0 points and threw him out of the race. So only the 9th place remained for him.

After this defeat, Sjarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch ended his wrestling career.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Hs = light heavyweight, S = heavyweight, back then up to 90 kg or 100 kg body weight)

• 1988, 1st place , World Cup in Athens , GR, Hs, ahead of Sotiros Anagnastopoulos, Greece , Guillermo Cruz, Cuba and Michael Houck , USA ;
• 1989, 5th place , World Cup in Martigny / Switzerland , GR, Hs, behind Maik Bullmann , GDR , Mike Foy , USA, Roger Gries , FRG , Ueon Jin-Han , South Korea and others. Harri Koskela , Finland ;
• 1990, 1st place , World Championship in Rome, GR, S, ahead of Sándor Major , Hungary , Dušan Masár , CSSR , Stipe Damjanović, Yugoslavia , Héctor Milián , Cuba a . Chris Tirone, USA;
• 1991, 1st place , EM in Aschaffenburg , GR, S, ahead of Andreas Steinbach , FRG, Sándor Major, Hungary, Celal Inceler, Turkey, Ilja Wassilew , Bulgaria a . Jörgen Olsson , Sweden ;
• 1991, 3rd place, World Championships in Varna, GR, S, behind Héctor Milián u. Jörgen Olsson u. in front. Atanas Komtschew , Bulgaria, Sándor Major u. Miloš Govedarica, Yugoslavia;
• 1992, 1st place , Great Price of the FRG in Kelheim , GR, S, ahead of Norbert Növényi , Hungary, Andreas Steinbach u. Roger Gries;
• 1992, bronze medal , OS in Barcelona , GR, S, behind Héctor Milián u. Dennis Koslowski , USA a. before Andrzej Wroński , Poland, Andreas Steinbach u. Ion Ieremciuc , Romania ;
• 1993, 1st place , Grand Prix of Germany in Koblenz , GR, S, before Mikael Ljungberg , Sweden, Andrzej Wroński, Ahmet Ozbegs u. Tahir Yilmaz, bde.Turkey a. Josip Pašivić, Croatia ;
• 1993, 1st place , EM in Istanbul , GR, S, ahead of Ibragim Tschawtschalow , Russia , Tengis Teodoradze, Georgia , Andrzej Wroński, Tahin Yılmaz, Turkey a. Roger Gries;
• 1993, 9th place , World Cup in Stockholm , GR, S, winner: Mikael Ljungberg, Sweden in front of Ibragim Tschawtschalow u. Andrzej Wroński

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer, Nurn. 9/89, pp. 3–7, 11/90, pp. 5–10, 5/91, pp. 4–10, 10/91, pp. 5–7, 9/92, pp. 12–14, 5/93, pp. 5–9, 10/93, pp. 6–0,
• International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

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