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Post by akzent on Mar 18, 2007 7:04:05 GMT -5
Yesterday David Bichinashvili, as expected, won the nationals at 84 kg. Unexpected was only the way he did this. In the finals, he pinned his main opponent Marc Buschle after a 6:0 lead. The score of their matches is usually tight.
There is another one imported champ. Several minutes ago, Andrej Shyyka (FILA database spelling!) won the nationals at 74 kg. Shyyka of Ukraine got German citizenship last week. He was 2 times second at 69 kg at European jr. championships – 1999, 2000 – representing Ukraine, but at sr. championships he didn't have success. This last season he wrestled in the German league without losing a match. In the finals he beat Krystian Brzozowski of Poland twice – 9:4 as host and 11:5 as visitor.
Sven Thiele, 38, won his 16th national title in HWT. He placed several times 2nd or 3rd at european and worlds in the last 20 years, starting in the years in which united Germany didn't exist. At the beginning of his career he was in the team of the German Democratic Republic.
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Post by Big on Mar 18, 2007 7:20:13 GMT -5
akzent,
Do you think Thiele will compete at Worlds and Olympics again?
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Post by akzent on Mar 18, 2007 7:57:35 GMT -5
I don't know. After the 2004 games he didn't wrestle internationally almost 2 years. He wrestled only in the German league. Though he won the 2005 nationals, another German (Markus Hamann) wrestled at the european and at the worlds in 2005; he couldn't win any single match. Thiele had a good 2005/6 season in the league. In interviews, he said, he was feeling that he was in great shape and that he would like to wrestle again at international championships. Then he won also the 2006 nationals. So he made the 2006 european team; no success. At the 2006 worlds, the coaches experimented with another wrestler, Martin Siddiqui (half Pakistani); no success. Obviously the Germans have problems with HWT. Yesterday Thiele (38) and Siddiqui (24) met in the finals. Thiele won 3:0. I have no idea who will make the 2007 european team next month. Above, I mentioned Marc Buschle who got pinned by Bichin. Obviously the conditioning & power training www.marc-buschle.de/galerie/training/index.html hasn't helped much ;D |
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Post by Big on Mar 18, 2007 8:57:43 GMT -5
Thanks akzent!
Is Leipold still wrestling? How is his health? German wrestling truly died after he stopped competing.
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Post by akzent on Mar 18, 2007 13:30:26 GMT -5
He is in best health. Notice that after the stroke in Uzbekistan, he had 2 more strokes in Germany. That was in July 2003. He hardly could move and speak. The guy needed only 5 months to recover! Unbelievable! In mid Dec 2003 he was on the mat. At that time – the quarters of the German league. Then he wrested also in the semis and in the finals. He lost only one match: the final to Emzari Bedinidis/Bedinishvili; the score was 1:0. In the spring 2004, he wrestled at the nationals, pinning and teching everybody on his way into the semis. He won the semis on points and in the final, only 10 seconds to go, he had the lead vs Dominik Zeh (he had success only at military worlds – 2000 champ, 2003 second; Leipold hat beaten him in semis of the league 3 months earlier). Zeh performed a unexpected “quick single” and even got back points. Zeh won 4:3, but he had never been of the same caliber as Leipold. He lost at the 2004 european; couldn't qualify for the Olympics at any of the tournaments. So Germany couldn't have a wrestler at 74 in Athens. FILA refused the German request for “wild card” for Leipold (German motives: Leipold had been ill and couldn't wrestle at qualification tournaments). Leipold understood that there was no way to wrestle at Athens and he went to China to meditate and train in Shaolin. View members.aol.com/leipalex/china.htm and the 5 pics on this page www.champion-des-jahres.de/cdj.php?pid=16 When he returned, he decided to finish his international career by winning at least an international tournament. He made the first attempt at the German Grand Prix in June 2004. Quite a disaster. He lost his 2 matches in the pool. 1) Elnur Aslanov of Azerbaijan beat him 6:1, incl. a 3 points throw from the clinch after 0:0 in the 1st period. 2) Yusup Abdusalamov, the Dagestani reperesenting Tajikistan beat him 7:5. (Later I shall see to post some photos I made.) A month after that, Leipold wrestled at the Beloglazov tournament in Kaliningrad and he won it. The final was his last international match. In Germany, he continued to wrestle in the league but in the Second devision, not in the First. His last match was in mid Dec 2005. After that match, there was a ceremony dedicated to his retirement. He is the coach of the national junior team now. Leipold is a great wrestler and.... the true 2000 Olympic champ. |
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Post by akzent on Mar 18, 2007 14:02:21 GMT -5
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