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| Nationality |  Israel | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1976-04-25) April 25, 1976 (age 48) Perm, Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5-6.5 (170 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 139 lb (63 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Style | Greco-Roman | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic finals | 15th (2000) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| World finals |  (1999, 2001) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Regional finals |  (2002) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Michael Beilin (מיכאל ביילין; born April 25, 1976) is an Israeli former Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler.
Early life
Beilin is from Perm, Russia, and is Jewish. He made aliyah (emigrated to Israel) with his parents in 1994. He served in the Israel Defense Forces.
Wrestling career
He started wrestling at the age of 8. His sports club was Hapoel Tel Aviv, in Tel Aviv, Israel, and he was coached by Nick Zagrintzki.
At the 1996 European Championship: 62.0 kg Greco-Roman, he came in 12th. At the 1997 World Wrestling Championships: 63.0 kg Greco-Roman, he came in 4th. At the 1998 World Wrestling Championships: 63.0 kg. Greco-Roman, he came in 13th.
At the 1999 World Wrestling Championships: 63.0 kg Greco-Roman in Athens, he won the bronze medal, and qualified for the Olympic Games.
He competed for Israel at the 2000 Summer Olympics, at the age of 24, in Sydney, Australia, in Greco-Roman Wrestling--Men's Lightweight (63 kg), and came in 15th. Ranked Number 3 in the world before the Olympics, he won his first match against Vitaly Chuk of Belarus, but lost in the elimination pool to Bakhodir Kurbanov of Uzbekistan. When he competed in the Olympics he was 5-6.5 (170 cm) tall, and weighed 139 lbs (63 kg).
At the 2001 World Wrestling Championships: 63.0 kg Greco-Roman, he won the bronze medal. At the 2001 Maccabiah Games he won the gold medal at 69 kg. At the 2002 European Championship: 66.0 kg Greco-Roman, he won the bronze medal. At the 2006 European Championship: 66.0 kg Greco-Roman, he came in 19th.
References
- ^ "Michael Beilin Bio, Stats, and Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- ^ Beilin, Michael, Jews in Sports
- ^ "Wrestling With Weight Loss". Haaretz.
External links
- Micha’el Bajlin at the International Wrestling Database
- Micha’el Bajlin at Olympics.com
- Micha’el Bajlin at Olympedia
- 1976 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Perm, Russia
- Jewish Russian sportspeople
- Russian emigrants to Israel
- Israeli people of Russian-Jewish descent
- Olympic wrestlers for Israel
- Israeli male sport wrestlers
- World Wrestling Championships medalists
- Jewish sport wrestlers
- Maccabiah Games medalists in wrestling
- Wrestlers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Maccabiah Games gold medalists for Israel
- Competitors at the 2001 Maccabiah Games