Alex Bjurberg Kessidis Explained

Alex Bjurberg Kessidis
Full Name:Alex Michel Bjurberg Kessidis
Birth Date:1995 3, df=yes
Height:187cm (74inches)
Country:Sweden
Sport:Amateur wrestling
Weight Class:77 kg
Event:Greco-Roman
Medaltemplates: All-World Team

Alex Michel Bjurberg Kessidis (born 23 March 1995) is a Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler. He is a silver medalist at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships and a bronze medalist at the 2020 European Wrestling Championships and the 2019 European Games. He represented Sweden at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[1]

Early life

Kessidis and his brother Laokratis Kessidis, also a Greco-Roman wrestler, were born and raised in Sweden by a Greek father and a Swedish mother.[2] In wrestling competitions his brother had chosen to represent Greece whereas Alex Kessidis represents Sweden.[2]

Career

He competed in the 80kg event at the 2016 World Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary and in the same event at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships held in Paris, France.[3] [4] The following year, he competed in the 77kg event at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships held in Kaspiysk, Russia. In the same year, he reached the semi-finals in the 77kg event at the 2018 World Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary where he lost against Aleksandr Chekhirkin of Russia.[5] He then also lost his bronze medal match against Viktor Nemeš of Serbia.[5]

He won the silver medal at the 77kg event at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.[6] In the same year, he also competed at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk, Belarus and he won one of the bronze medals in the 77kg event.[7]

In 2020, he won one of the bronze medals in the 77kg event at the European Wrestling Championships held in Rome, Italy.[8] [9] In his bronze medal match he defeated Volodymyr Yakovliev of Ukraine.[9]

In January 2021, he won the gold medal in the 82kg event at the 2021 Grand Prix Zagreb Open held in Zagreb, Croatia.[10] In April 2021, he was eliminated in his second match in the 82kg event at the European Wrestling Championships in Warsaw, Poland.[11] In June 2021, he won one of the bronze medals in his event at the 2021 Wladyslaw Pytlasinski Cup held in Warsaw, Poland.[12] [13]

He competed in the 77kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan where he was eliminated in his first match by Rafig Huseynov of Azerbaijan.[1] Two months after the Olympics, he lost his bronze medal match in the 82kg event at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships held in Oslo, Norway.[14]

In 2022, he competed at the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series held in Rome, Italy.[15] He lost his bronze medal match in the 87kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.[16]

He competed at the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan hoping to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[17] He was eliminated in his first match and he did not qualify for the Olympics.[17]

Achievements

YearTournamentLocationResultEvent
2019European GamesMinsk, Belarus3rdGreco-Roman 77kg
World ChampionshipsNur-Sultan, Kazakhstan2ndGreco-Roman 77kg
2020European ChampionshipsRome, Italy3rdGreco-Roman 77kg

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wrestling Results Book. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210807164330/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/WRE/OG2020-_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf. 7 August 2021. 8 August 2021. 2020 Summer Olympics.
  2. News: Παγκόσμιο πάλης: Τελικός στα 77κ. και Τόκιο για τον Ελληνοσουηδό Κεσίδη. 16 September 2019. sportsfeed. 16 February 2021. el.
  3. Web site: 2016 World Wrestling Championships Results Book. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201118174823/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/media/document/event/results/results_12_budapest.pdf. 18 November 2020. 21 November 2020. United World Wrestling.
  4. Web site: 2017 World Wrestling Championships. United World Wrestling. live. 13 January 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20190501222916/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/media/document/event/results/final-book_1.pdf. 1 May 2019.
  5. Web site: 2018 World Wrestling Championships Results. United World Wrestling. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200414123246/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2018-11/2018-world-championships_final-book.pdf. 14 April 2020. 14 April 2020.
  6. Web site: 2019 World Wrestling Championships Results. United World Wrestling. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200412151211/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/nur-sultan_kz_final-book_1.pdf. 12 April 2020. 12 April 2020.
  7. Web site: 2019 European Games Wrestling Results. United World Wrestling. live. 4 April 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200211201847/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-10/results_06_minsk.pdf . 11 February 2020 .
  8. News: Houston. Michael. Teenager Nazaryan wins Greco-Roman gold on day two of European Wrestling Championships. 11 February 2020. InsideTheGames.biz. 11 February 2020.
  9. Web site: 2020 European Wrestling Championships Results. United World Wrestling. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200412124934/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-02/eucs-rome-final-book_1.pdf. 12 April 2020. 12 April 2020.
  10. Web site: 2021 Grand Prix Zagreb Open Results Book. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20211107150312/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2021-01/results_01_zagreb.pdf?VersionId=pRLHK4V9.EF957exJQFDTZlQYqtSm8Ae. 7 November 2021. 7 November 2021. United World Wrestling.
  11. Web site: 2021 European Wrestling Championships Results Book. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210425200427/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/2021_senior_european_championships.pdf. 25 April 2021. 25 April 2021. United World Wrestling.
  12. News: Rowbottom. Mike. 12 June 2021. Levai misses gold after beating double Olympic champion Vlasov at UWW Poland Open. InsideTheGames.biz. 4 July 2021.
  13. Web site: 2021 Poland Open Results Book. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210704164819/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-06/results_06_warsaw.pdf. 4 July 2021. 4 July 2021. United World Wrestling.
  14. News: Burke. Patrick. 8 October 2021. Rafig Huseynov among winners of first Greco-Roman finals at UWW World Championships in Oslo. InsideTheGames.biz. 8 October 2021.
  15. Web site: Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2022 Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20220625194934/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-06/final-book-matteo_pellicone.pdf?VersionId=qzK3za9J0rNgcVjK8V3USdzHshFpyOIW . 25 June 2022 . 25 June 2022 . United World Wrestling.
  16. Web site: 2022 World Wrestling Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20220918183512/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-09/final-book-2022-senior-world-championships_compressed.pdf?VersionId=zoTz_Ra8zK5EkVhfrZuDG5THXf4.3ik. . 18 September 2022 . 18 September 2022 . United World Wrestling.
  17. Web site: 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20240408164811/https://cdn.uww.org/2024-04/final-book-seniors_european_og_qualifier.pdf . 8 April 2024 . 8 April 2024 . United World Wrestling.

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