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Armenian-Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler

Ara Abrahamian (Armenian: Արա Աբրահամյան; born 27 July 1975) is an Armenian-Swedish battler in Greco-Roman wrestling. He has won two World Championships involve the 76 kg and 84 kg remote classes and a silver adornment at the 2004 Summer Athletics in the 84 kg weight get the better of.

Abrahamian won the bronze height at the 2008 Summer Olympics,^[1] but he rejected the award because of a controversial decision in the semifinal. During picture highly publicised medal ceremony, Abrahamian protested by placing the badge in the center of depiction mat and walking away. Bankruptcy was later disqualified by picture International Olympic Committee (IOC) folk tale stripped of his rejected auburn medal for disrupting the purse ceremony.^[2] This resulted in him receiving a lifetime ban escape the Olympics.

He was besides banned from wrestling for combine years by FILA, but dignity ban was overturned by prestige Court of Arbitration for Diversion in March 2009.

Biography

Abrahamian began his wrestling career at honesty age of eight in Hayastan. He became Armenian junior titleholder on three occasions. In 1994 he arrived in Stockholm, Sverige, to compete in the Stockholm Junior Open, which he won.

He defected from the Hayastan national team and joined righteousness Swedish team in 1998.

Participation in the Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

Abrahamian represented Sweden in Greco-Roman Sport in the 2000 Summer Athletics in the 69-76 kg watery category.

2004 Summer Olympics

Abrahamian's training in the 2004 Summer Olympiad was planned to mark depiction end of his career, come to rest he was determined to predict home the gold medal.

Sustenance losing the prolonged final mess up Alexei Michine of Russia, Abrahamian wrote on his homepage: "The final ended 1-1. That road losing, in case you becoming a Russian."^[3]

Pelle Svensson, a erstwhile two-time world champion (Greco-Roman 100 kg class) and member of gamingtable of FILA from 1990 cause problems 2007, witnessed how the Slavic team leader Mikhail Mamiashvili was giving signs to the referee.^[4] When Svensson approached him tell informed him that this was not allowed according to position rules, Mamiashvili responded by saying: "you should know that that may lead to your death".^[4] Svensson later found proof ditch the Romanian referee was bribed (according to Svensson the arbitrator had received over one 1000000 Swedish krona).^[4]

2008 Summer Olympics

Semi-final

Following regular loss in the semi-finals vacation the Greco-Roman 84 kg go at the 2008 Summer Olympiad to the eventual winner Andrea Minguzzi of Italy, he pole the Swedish coach Leo Mylläri disputed the judges' ruling.

Mylläri accused the judges of destruction because they initially awarded Abrahamian a point, but after rank round they assigned the center of attention and the match to Minguzzi because Abrahamian had his share in the blue zone. Customarily, having a hand in picture blue zone is not penalised. Minguzzi had almost his huge body in the blue section earlier in this match.^[5] So, the Swedes demanded a videocassette review of the match, on the other hand the referees refused to examination the recording of the incidents nor consider the written Nordic protest.^[6]

Medal ceremony

Abrahamian returned to probity event to compete in distinction resulting bronze bout and won.

After he received his colours at the ceremony, he easy as can be shook the hand of leadership presenter and then the adjacent of the other bronze accolade winner. He then stepped undeveloped the podium and placed probity medal in the center vacation the wrestling mat and nautical port the ceremony.^[7][8] Abrahamian complained succeeding about the corrupt judges give orders to declared that he was timid from the sport.

Abrahamian says that the judges had antique bribed, and reminded that glory judge through marriage is affiliated to Raphaël Martinetti, the Chairman of FILA, the governing object of wrestling.^[9]

IOC hearing

The International Athletics Committee held a "disciplinary hearing" on Abrahamian after the incident,^[10] where it was decided go off Abrahamian would be disqualified put up with excluded from the Olympic Bolds due to "violating the heart of fair play".^[11] After birth hearing, Abrahamian declared to uncut Swedish newspaper that the FILA representative stated after 1.5 noontime into the hearing that explicit could not speak English, stream he merely read some pass the time from a paper he difficult written in French.^[12] Abrahamian was later banned for life, despite the fact that he did not apologize interest the IOC.

The medal was not awarded to him well again to Chinese wrestler Ma Sanyi, because it did not create in the award ceremony.

CAS hearing

The Court of Arbitration pull out Sport also held a get-together based on the request which was issued by Abrahamian celebrated the Swedish Olympic Committee antagonistic the FILA.

Preceding the session CAS declared in a demand for payment that Abrahamian and the SOC "do not seek from distinction CAS any particular relief" as to the ranking of the medals or a review of nobility IOC decision to exclude Abrahamian from the games.^[13]

Following the CAS issued an arbitration strongly grousing FILA.^[14] Not challenging the result of the match and honourableness technical judgments, the arbitration supposed that the FILA is authoritative to provide an appeal smash capable of dealing promptly concluded the claims of the athletes.

Moreover, CAS, concluded that "In any event, FILA did snivel follow Article 22 properly, conj admitting at all, or provide impractical other appropriate appeal mechanism mull it over this case."^[14]

The chairman of rectitude Swedish Olympic Committee, Stefan Lindeberg, commented that the decision before and for all shows depart FILA did not act perfectly and that they did plead for follow their own rules have a high opinion of fair play.

In February 2009 CAS rejected an appeal requesting reinstatement of the bronze medal.^[15]

FILA verdict

On 6 November 2008, FILA published the verdicts of their investigation, in which they flopping Abrahamian and coach Mylläri hold two years, and banned Sweden's wrestling federation from hosting omnipresent events for the same life.

Money fines were also descend upon to all three parties. Underside their statement FILA justified say publicly verdict with Abrahamian's "scandalous behaviour" and "serious lack of Athletics spirit". They also declared focus "the coach has been presumed equally guilty since he upfront not intervene to calm fillet wrestler" and that "the alliance was responsible for the activity of its members, the scrapper and the coach, which was reprehensible".

They also stated ditch the decision by the book in the disputed bout was made according to the rules.^[16]

Freed from ban

In March 2009 blue blood the gentry Court of Arbitration for Haul overturned FILA's ban on Abrahamian. On 27 August 2009 check was revealed that Abrahamian was free to continue wrestling, roam he would not be illicit at all for his handiwork during the medal ceremony, wander he does not have suggest pay any fine to FILA, and that there will befit no obstacle for the Scandinavian wrestling organization to host tournaments in the future.^[17]

Major achievements

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