Steeve Guénot

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At the Paris Grand Prix, 2014
Steeve Guénot medal table

Wrestler

France
Olympic games
gold 2008 Beijing Light
bronze 2012 London Light
World Championship
silver 2007 Baku Light
European Championship
bronze 2010 Baku Light
Junior European Championships
bronze 2005 Wroclaw Easy Juniors

Steeve François Fabien Guénot (born October 2, 1985 in Chalon-sur-Saône ) is a French wrestler . He was Olympic champion in the Greco-Roman style lightweight at the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 and won a bronze medal in the same weight class and style at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Career

Steeve Guénot comes from a family of wrestlers. His father Christophe Guénot was a wrestler, referee and club official, brother Christophe Guénot won a bronze welterweight medal at the Olympic Games in Beijing . His mother and two sisters are also fond of wrestling.

Steeve Guénot has been wrestling since 1990 and only in the Greco-Roman style. He is a member of the US Metro Paris Association (Union sportive metropolitaine des transports). He is 1.72 m tall and weighs about 70 kg. He has been a member of the French national wrestling team since he was 17 years old. His coach is the former world champion Patrice Mourier . Professionally, he is an agent of the Securite GPSR in Seine-Saint-Denis, where he has every freedom for daily training.

In 2001 Steeve Guénot was the first French junior champion in the weight class up to 58 kg body weight. At the French Senior Championships in 2003, he took 2nd place, 3rd place in 2005 and 1st place in 2007, both in the lightweight category.

He made his debut on the international wrestling mat at the 2004 European Junior Championships in Murska Sobota in the lightweight category. He wasn't very successful there, because he lost his first fight against Tiziano Corriga from Italy and won the next round over Ismael Navarro Sanches from Spain . These results only reached 17th place.

In 2005 Steeve Guénot won his first medal at an international wrestling championship, namely the European Junior Championship in Wroclaw . He came there behind Dimitri Pyschkow from Ukraine and Ionel Puşcaşu from Romania in 3rd place. In the same year it was used at the World Seniors Championships in Budapest . There he had to learn the hard way, because he lost his first fight against Ionuț Panait from Romania and only came in 29th place in the lightweight.

His next assignment at an international championship took place again at the 2007 European championship in Sofia . There he fared not much better in the lightweight than at the 2005 World Cup, because he lost his first fight against Sylvester Charzewski from Poland and ended up in 16th place. He then made a huge leap forward at the 2007 World Cup in Baku . He won there over Sunil Kumar from India , Darchan Bayakmetow from Kazakhstan , the 2005 world champion Nikolai Gergow from Bulgaria (with 6: 1 technical points) and Arman Adikjan from Armenia on points. In the final he faced Fərid Mansurov from Azerbaijan , against whom he lost just on points. The reward for his good performance was winning the runner-up world title.

Steeve Guénot suffered a setback at the 2008 European Championships in Tampere . He lost there in the first fight against the German champion Marcus Thätner on points. Since Thätner did not reach the final, Steeve Guénot did not make it into the hopeful round and only placed 20th.

Steeve Guénot celebrates his Olympic victory in Beijing

Steeve Guénot traveled to the Olympic Games in Beijing in excellent shape. He therefore defeated Alain Milián from Cuba , Tamás Lőrincz from Hungary , Michail Semenow from Belarus , Darchan Bayakmetow from Kazakhstan and in the final Kanatbek Begaliew from Kyrgyzstan and became Olympic champion in the lightweight, Greco-Roman style. He was the first Frenchman to win a gold medal in wrestling again after 1936, when Emile Poilve was Olympic champion in middleweight freestyle wrestling in Berlin .

Steeve Guénot continued his wrestling career after Beijing . In 2009, however, he only finished 11th at the European lightweight championship in Vilnius and only 15th at the world championship in Herning / Denmark . He did much better at the international championships in 2010. This year he fought his way to the European lightweight championship in Baku with victories over Manuel Almeida, Portugal , Frank Stäbler , Germany and Sergei Krasilnikow , Ukraine, after a semi-final defeat against Ionuț Panait, Romania , an EM bronze medal . At the World Cup in Moscow , he defeated Aleksandar Maksimović from Serbia and Faruk Sahin from the United States after losing his first fight against Armen Vardanyan from Ukraine. In the end, he lost the fight for a bronze medal against Wassif Arzimanov from Turkey .

In 2011 Steeve Guenot was only able to place himself in 10th place at the European Championships in Dortmund and also only came 12th at the World Championships in Istanbul . But in April 2012 he managed to get a starting place at the first continental Olympic qualification tournament in Sofia by winning a tournament. He won there in the lightweight before Edgaras Venckaitis , Lithuania, Emilian Todorow , Bulgaria and Vitali Rəhimov , Azerbaijan. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London he won with victories over Wuileixis Rivas Espinosa, Venezuela and Saeid Mourad Abdvali , Iran, a defeat against Kim Hyeon-woo , South Korea, which was very close with 1: 2 rounds and 2: 3 points and one Victory over Pedro Isaac Mulens Herrera, Cuba, a bronze medal.

He continued his career in 2013, but switched to the next higher weight class, the welterweight. At the European Championships this year in Tbilisi, he first won over the Italian Ciro Russo, but lost in his next fight against Jawor Janakiew , Bulgaria on points and was eliminated. It came in 10th place in Tbilisi.

Because he missed the doping tests three times , Guénot was banned for one year in 2014.

Guénot lives east of Paris in the city of Bagnolet . Since 2007, he and his brother Christophe have been employed as a security guard at the Paris state transport company RATP as part of a professional partnership program of the French Ministry of Health, Youth and Sport .

International success

year space competition Weight class
2004 17th Junior European Championship in Murska Sobota Light Winner: Omar Bakuridze, Georgia ahead of Emilian Todorow, Bulgaria a . Christian Fetzer , Germany
2005 3. Junior European Championship in Wroclaw Light behind Dimitri Pyschkow, Ukraine a . Ionel Pușcașu , Romania
2005 29 World Cup in Budapest Light Winner: Nikolai Gergow , Bulgaria ahead of Kim Min-Chul , South Korea , Alain Milián , Cuba a . Kim Kum Chol , North Korea
2007 16. EM in Sofia Light Winner: Nikolai Gergow ahead of Oleksandr Chwoschtsch , Ukraine, Marcus Thätner , Germany a. Refik Ayvazoglu, Turkey
2007 2. World Cup in Baku Light with victories over Sunil Kumar, India , Darchan Bayakmetow, Kazakhstan, Nikolai Gergow, Arman Adikjan, Armenia a. a loss to Fərid Mansurov , Azerbaijan
2008 20th EM in Tampere Light after a defeat against Marcus Thätner, winner: Armen Wardanjan , Ukraine ahead of Ionuț Panait , Romania, Ruslan Belcharojew , Russia a . Plamen Petrov , Bulgaria
2008 gold OS in Beijing Light with victories over Alain Milián, Tamás Lőrincz , Hungary , Michail Sjamjonau , Belarus, Darchan Bayakmetow , Kazakhstan and others. Kanatbek Begaliew , Kyrgyzstan , before Kanatbek Begaliew (silver), Armen Wardanjan (bronze) u. Mikhail Semenev (bronze)
2009 7th World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand Light Winner: Darchan Bajachmetow , Kazakhstan ahead of Seiran Simonjan , Russia
2009 11. EM in Vilnius Light with a victory over Edgaras Venckaitis, Lithuania a. a loss to Manuchar Chadaia , Georgia
2009 15th World Cup in Herning / Denmark Light with a victory over Abdullah Coskun, Turkey a. a loss to Juha Petteri Hiltunen, Finland
2010 3. EM in Baku Light with victories over Manuel Almeida, Portugal a . Frank Stäbler , Germany , a defeat against Ionuț Panait, Romania a . a win over Sergei Krasilnikov , Ukraine
2010 5. World Cup in Moscow Light after a defeat against Armen Wardanjan, Ukraine, victories over Aleksandar Maksimović , Serbia a . Faruk Sahin, USA a . a loss to Wassif Arzimanov , Turkey
2011 13. EM in Dortmund Light after a victory over Alwin Geiger, Austria and a defeat against Ionuț Panait , Romania
2011 10. "Wladyslaw-Pytlasinski" Cup in Radom Welter Winner: Roman Wlassow , Russia ahead of Edgar Babajanas, Poland
2011 12. World Cup in Istanbul Light after victories over Tero Välimäki, Finland and Arman Adikjan, Armenia and a defeat against Kanatbek Begalijew
2012 1. Olympic qualification tournament in Sofia Light before Edgaras Venckaitis , Lithuania , Emilian Todorow , Bulgaria and Vitali Rəhimov , Azerbaijan
2012 bronze OS in London Light after victories over Wuileixis Rivas Espinosa and Saeid Mourad Abdvali , a loss to Kim Hyeon-woo and a victory over Pedro Isaac Mulens Herrera
2013 10. EM in Tbilisi Welter after a win over Ciro Russo, Italy and a loss to Jawor Jankiew, Bulgaria
2013 3. Mediterranean Games in Mersin / Turkey Welter behind Emrah Kus , Turkey and Neven Zugaj , Croatia
2013 19th "Wladyslaw-Pytlasinski" Memorial in Warsaw Welter Winner: Alexander Czechirkin, Russia, ahead of Robert Rosengren, Sweden
2014 4th Golden Grand Prix in Paris up to 71 kg behind Franck Hassli, France, Demeu Schadrajew, Kazakhstan and Fatih Ugur Ozay, France
Explanations
  • all competitions in Greco-Roman style
  • OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
  • Lightweight, weight class up to 66 kg welter weight, up to 74 kg body weight (until December 31, 2013); Since January 1, 2014, a new weight classification has been in effect by the world wrestling association FILA

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Profile at franceolympique.com (accessed August 13, 2008)
  2. ↑ Wrestling: Doping ban for Beijing Olympic champion Guenot www.handelsblatt.com December 18, 2014 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.handelsblatt.com
  3. ↑ cf. Profile ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Athlètes RATP (French; accessed on August 13, 2008) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ratp.fr
  4. ↑ cf. RATP: 2 athlètes RATP médaillés à Pékin . NEWS Press, August 13, 2008
  • Trade journal Der Ringer from 2003 to 2008,
  • Website "resultsbejing2008.cn",

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personal data
SURNAME Guénot, Steeve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guénot, Steeve François Fabien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd October 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Chalon-sur-Saône