Wassyl Ratschyba

Wassyl Dmytrowytsch Ratschyba ( Ukrainian Василь Дмитрович Рачиба ; born January 27, 1982 ) is a Ukrainian wrestler . In 2011 he became European middleweight champion in the Greco-Roman style in Dortmund .

Career

Ratschyba started wrestling in 1995 at the age of 13. Nothing is known from his junior years. Officially, he is a member of the Ukrainian army and a member of the central sports club of the CSK Kiev army . Currently only with the wrestling. His trainer is Yuri Chikalenko. With a height of 1.73 meters he wrestled for a long time as an adult in the welterweight division and has been wrestling with the middleweight division since 2008. He is a strong, stocky type and operates exclusively in the Greco-Roman style.

His results from international tournaments have been known since 2001. The best result he achieved at the beginning of his career was a 2nd place at the 2003 Military World Cup in Istanbul , which he finished in welterweight behind Mahmut Altay from Turkey and ahead of Adam Juretzko from Germany . In 2007 he also started at the German Grand Prix in Dortmund and came third in the welterweight division behind Konstantin Schneider from Germany and Christophe Guénot from France .

In 2008 he switched from welterweight to middleweight. This year he succeeded in being used by the Ukrainian Wrestling Federation for the first time at an international championship. He started at the European Championships in Tampere and came in 7th place after victories over Michael Jauch, Switzerland and Denis Nikolajew, Israel and a defeat against Jan Fischer , Germany. After that he was only at the start again at the 2010 World Cup in Moscow . There he came to victories over Rami Hietaniemi from Finland and Ilyas Esenow from Turkmenistan , while he was defeated in the quarter-finals against Nazmi Avluca from Turkey. He was eliminated and finished in 9th place.

At the 2011 European Championships in Dortmund, Ratschyba surprised all competitors and wrestling experts with his good form. There he defeated Marian Mihalik from Slovakia , Artur Omarov from the Czech Republic , the 2010 world champion Christo Marinow from Bulgaria , Damian Janikowski from Poland and in the final Alan Chugajew from Russia and became European champion for the first time at the age of 29 . At this year's World Cup in Istanbul, he was not so successful. He won his first fight there against Jose Antonio Arias Paredes from the Dominican Republic, but then lost to Nazmi Avluca from Turkey. Since this did not reach the final, he was eliminated and only came in 13th place. In spring 2012, he therefore concentrated on qualifying for the Olympic Games in London . He then achieved this with a victory at the tournament in Sofia , which he won ahead of Amer Hrustanovic from Austria , Ara Abrahamian from Sweden and Theodoros Tounisidis from Greece. In London he won his first fight over Haykel Achouri from Tunisia, but then lost to Vladimir Gegeschidze from Georgia. Since this did not reach the final, he was eliminated and came in 8th place.

In September 2013 he also competed at the World Championships in Budapest. He lost his first fight there against Giorgi Zirekidze from Georgia, dropped out and only reached 22nd place.

Of his starts at the Ukrainian championships, only his result is known from the 2011 Ukrainian championship, where he won the middleweight title.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Result
2001	19th	Sweden Cup in Malmo	Welter	Winner: Alexei Mischin , Russia ahead of Avram Tatsidis, Greece
2002	6th	Vantaa Cup	Welter	Winner: Juha Lappalainen ahead of Tuomas Ojala, bde. Finland
2003	2.	Military World Cup in Istanbul	Welter	behind Mahmut Altay , Turkey , in front of Adam Juretzko , Germany
2003	5.	Vantaa Cup	Welter	behind Kim-Jussi Nurmela , Finland , Wolodymyr Schazkych , Ukraine , Wiktor Aniskavets, Bulgaria a . Ari Härkänen , Finland
2005	3.	Herman Kare Memorial in Kouvola / Finland	Welter	behind Kim-Jussi Nurmela u. Jesse Kekki, Estonia
2005	1.	Stanislaus Pytlasinski Memorial in Ratibor	Welter	in front of Veli Marinow, Bulgaria, Aljaksandr Kikinjou , Belarus and David Abedinzadeh, Iran
2007	7th	Grand Prix tournament in Szombathely	Welter	Winner: Mark Overgaard Madsen , Denmark ahead of Wolodymyr Schazkych
2007	3.	German Grand Prix in Dortmund	Welter	behind Konstantin Schneider , Germany and Christophe Guénot , France
2008	7th	EM in Tampere	medium	after victories over Michael Jauch, Switzerland a . Denis Nikolajew, Israel a . a loss to Jan Fischer (wrestler) , Germany
2010	2.	Stanislaus Pytlasinski Memorial in Ratibor	medium	behind Nenad Žugaj , Croatia , in front of Ewgeni Bogomolow, Russia a. Timo Kallio, Finland
2010	9.	World Cup in Moscow	medium	after victories over Rami Hietaniemi, Finland a. Ilyas Esenow, Turkmenistan a . a loss to Nazmi Avluca , Turkey
2011	1.	EM in Dortmund	medium	after victories over Marian Mihalik , Slovakia , Artur Omarov , Czech Republic , Christo Marinow , Bulgaria, Damian Janikowski, Poland and Alan Chugajew , Russia
2011	5.	"Wladyslaw-Pytlasinski" Cup in Radom	medium	Winner: Alan Chugajew ahead of Alexei Mishin , both Russia
2011	13.	World Cup in Istanbul	medium	after defeating Jose Antonio Arias Paredes, Dominican Republic and losing to Nazmi Avluca , Turkey
2011	2.	Vantaa Painicup (Wrestling Cup)	medium	behind Asamat Bikbayev, in front of Evgeni Bogomolow and Abdullabek Atlygishev, all Russia
2011	2.	FILA test tournament in London	medium	behind Hassan Saman Tahmasebi , Azerbaijan , in front of Andrea Minguzzi , Italy and Christoffer Ljungbäck, Sweden
2012	1.	Olympic qualification tournament in Sofia	medium	before Amer Hrustanovic , Austria , Ara Abrahamian , Sweden and Theodoros Tounisidis , Greece
2012	2.	Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid	Semi-difficult	behind Selimchan Belchorojew , Russia, in front of Martin Hamlet Nielsen, Norway and Christian Ferney Mosquera Mosque, Colombia
2012	8th.	OS in London	medium	after a victory over Haykel Achouri, Tunisia and a defeat against Vladimir Gogeschidze, Georgia
2013	2.	Azovmash Cup in Mariupol	medium	behind Damian Janikowski, Poland, ahead of Aleksander Kazakewitsch, Lithuania and Rustam Assakalow, Uzbekistan
2013	5.	German Grand Prix in Dortmund	medium	behind Viktor Lörincz, Hungary, Wiktor Sasunowski, Belarus, Tadeusz Michalik, Poland and Fisnik Zahiti, Sweden
2013	22nd	World Cup in Budapest	medium	after losing to Giorgi Zirekidze, Georgia

Explanations

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Welter weight, until 2001 up to 76 kg, since 2002 up to 74 kg, middle weight, since 2002 up to 84 kg body weight, light heavy weight up to 96 kg body weight

literature

• Trade journal Der Ringer

Web links

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