Tajbe Jussein

Tajbe Jussein Mustafa ( Bulgarian Тайбе Юсеин Мустафа ; * May 4, 1991 ) is a Bulgarian wrestler . In 2012 and 2013 she became vice world champion in the weight classes up to 63 kg and 59 kg body weight, respectively.

Career

Tajbe Jussein, a member of the Turkish minority in Bulgaria , started wrestling as a teenager in 2004. She belongs to the Levski Sofia sports club and is mainly trained by Sawa Sawow. The 1.62 meter tall athlete weighs just under 65 kg and started her career as an adult in the weight classes up to 59 kg or 63 kg. She makes a living z. Currently with the wrestling.

Tajbe Jussein made her debut on the international wrestling mat as a junior (cadet) in 2006. She took part in the Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Istanbul that year and won a bronze medal in the weight class up to 56 kg. In the following years she started regularly in the junior division at the international championships. The greatest success she achieved was winning the 2011 Junior World Championships in Bucharest in the weight class up to 63 kg. In the final, she defeated Aline Focken from Germany. In total, Tajbe Jussein won seven medals in this age range at eight international championships in which she participated.

In the women's category, she made her debut at the 2009 World Cup in Herning / Denmark. In the weight class up to 59 kg, however, she lost to Deanna Rix-Bettermann from the United States in the first round, so she was eliminated and only came in 25th place. In April 2010 Tajbe Jussein then won the silver medal in the weight class up to 59 kg at the European Women's Championship in Baku. On the way to this success she defeated three international top wrestlers: Hanna Wassylenko , Ukraine, Natalja Smirnowa , Russia and Marianna Sastin , Hungary. She just lost the final battle against Sona Əhmədli from Azerbaijan. However, she had no luck again at the World Championships in Moscow in October 2010 in Moscow, because she lost her first fight there in the same weight class, against Blessing Oborududu from Nigeria. Since this did not reach the final, she was eliminated and only came in 19th place.

In 2011 Tajbe Jussein competed in four international championships, twice in the juniors and twice in the women. With a view to the Olympic Summer Games in London in 2012 , it started this year in the weight class up to 63 kg, as this weight class is Olympic in contrast to the weight class up to 59 kg. In March 2011 she was again vice European champion for women in Dortmund. She defeated it Inna Traschukowa , Russia, Audrey Prieto , France and Marianna Sastin, but lost the final battle against Julija Ostaptschuk from Ukraine. At the women's world championship in Istanbul, she won over Gosal Sutowa from Azerbaijan, but then surprisingly lost to Gloria Josefina Zavala Lugo from Venezuela, which she eliminated and finished in 13th place.

In April and May 2012, Tajbe Jussein tried in vain to qualify for tournaments in Sofia, Taiyuan / China and Helsinki for participation in the Summer Olympics in London. So the games took place without her. But she was able to start at the World Championships that took place in Strathcona County / Canada in September 2012 after these games and fought her way there in the weight class up to 63 kg with victories over Monika Ewa Michalik , Poland, Justine Bouchard , Canada and Elena Schalygina , Kazakhstan Final in which she lost to Elena Pirozhkova from the United States. For the first time, she became vice world champion in the women’s category.

In 2013 she started again in the weight class up to 59 kg and was runner-up in this weight class again in Budapest. She defeated Tatiana Lavrentschuk , Ukraine, Braxton Rei Stone-Papadopoulos , Canada, Aissuluu Tynybekowa , Kyrgyzstan and Julija Ratkewitsch from Azerbaijan. She lost the final against Marianna Sastin, against whom she had already won several times.

literature

• Trade journal Der Ringer

Web links

• Profile of Tajbe Jussein at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Fight between Tajbe Jussein and Marianna Sastin in the final of the 2013 World Cup