Alin Alexuc-Ciurariu Explained

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Alin Alexuc-Ciurariu
Birth Date:3 February 1990
Birth Place:Botoşani, Romania
Weight:1300NaN0
Sport:Wrestling
Event:Greco-Roman
Club:CS Botoşani
Coach:Victor Baciu
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Alin Alexuc-Ciurariu (born February 3, 1990) is an amateur Romanian Greco-Roman wrestler, who competes in the men's heavyweight category.[1] [2] He won one of the bronze medals in the 130 kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.[3] [4] He is a member of CS Botoşani for the wrestling division, and is coached and trained by Victor Baciu.[1]

Career

Alexuc-Ciurariu represented Romania at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed in the men's 96 kg class. He lost the qualifying match to Albanian-born Bulgarian wrestler Elis Guri, who was able to score one point each in two straight periods, leaving Alexuc-Ciurariu without a single point.[5]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he beat Hamdy El-Said before losing to Artur Aleksanyan in the quarter-final. As Aleksanyan reached the final, Alexuc-Ciurariu was entered into the repechage, where he beat Daigoro Timoncini in a shut out, before losing in his bronze medal match to Cenk İldem.

At the 2018 European Championships, he competed in the 130 kg division.[6] He beat Stepan David and Mantas Knystautas before losing to Rıza Kayaalp. As Kayaalp reached the final, Alexuc-Ciurariu was entered into the repechage. There, he won his bronze medal match against Bálint Lám.

In March 2021, he competed at the European Qualification Tournament in Budapest, Hungary hoping to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[7] He competed in the men's 130 kg event.[8]

In 2022, he competed in the 130 kg event at the European Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Hungary. He lost his bronze medal match in the 130kg event at the 2023 European Wrestling Championships held in Zagreb, Croatia.

He competed at the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan hoping to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[9] He was eliminated in his third match and he did not qualify for the Olympics.[9] A month later, he earned a quota place for Romania for the Olympics at the 2024 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alin Alexuc-Ciurariu. London 2012. 25 December 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121030015118/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/alexuc-ciurariu-alin-1037108/. 30 October 2012. dead. dmy-all.
  2. Alin Alexuc-Ciurariu. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418104259/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/al/alin-alexuc-ciurariu-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. 25 February 2019.
  3. News: Brennan . Eliott . 13 September 2022 . Olympic medallist Kayaalp returns to champion status at World Wrestling Championships . InsideTheGames.biz . 14 September 2022.
  4. 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.
  5. Web site: Men's 96kg Greco-Roman Qualification. London 2012. 25 December 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121030133534/http://www.london2012.com/wrestling/event/men-greco-roman-96kg/match=wrm196514/index.html. 30 October 2012. dead. dmy-all.
  6. Web site: Senior European Championships 2018. April 2018. unitedworldwrestling.org. 25 February 2018.
  7. Web site: 2021 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210324185322/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/final-book.pdf. 24 March 2021. 24 March 2021. United World Wrestling.
  8. Web site: Wrestling Results Book. dead. 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. Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
  9. 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.
  10. Web site: 2024 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20240514204605/https://cdn.uww.org/2024-05/results_05_istanbul_qt.pdf . 14 May 2024 . 14 May 2024 . United World Wrestling.

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