Felix Baldauf Explained

Felix Baldauf
Birth Date:1994 10, df=yes
Birth Place:Köthen, Germany
Country:Norway
Sport:Amateur wrestling
Weight Class:97 kg
Event:Greco-Roman

Felix Baldauf (born 22 October 1994) is a Norwegian Greco-Roman wrestler. He is a European champion and won the gold medal in the men's 98kg event at the 2017 European Wrestling Championships.[1] Baldauf is also a European Games, World Junior Championships and European U23 Championships bronze medallist.

Career

Baldauf represented Norway in the men's 98kg event at the 2015 European Games in Baku, where he was eliminated from the competition in his first match.[2] He competed in the men's 98kg event at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships held in Paris, where he was eliminated in his second match by Rustam Assakalov of Uzbekistan.[3] In 2018, Baldauf competed in the men's 97kg event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Budapest.[4] He was eliminated in his second match by Artur Aleksanyan of Armenia.

In 2019, Baldauf competed in the men's 97kg event at the European Wrestling Championships held in Bucharest.[5] In that same year, he won one of the bronze medals in the men's 97kg event at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk.[6] [7] In his bronze medal match he defeated Cenk İldem of Turkey. In 2019, he also competed in the men's 97kg event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, where he was eliminated in his first match by Mélonin Noumonvi of France.[8]

In March 2021, Baldauf was scheduled to compete at the European Olympic Qualification Tournament in Budapest, but he was unable to do so as he tested positive for COVID-19.[9] [10] In May 2021, he was able to compete at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Sofia, but failed to qualify.[11] He won his first match but he was then eliminated in his next match by Nikoloz Kakhelashvili of Italy.[12]

In 2022, Baldauf won one of the bronze medals in his event at the Vehbi Emre & Hamit Kaplan Tournament held in Istanbul.[13] He lost the bronze medal match in the 97kg event at the 2022 European Wrestling Championships held in Budapest. A few months later, he competed at the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series 2022 held in Rome.[14] He competed in the 97kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade.[15]

Baldauf won the gold medal in his event at the 2023 Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament held in Sofia.[16] He competed at the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, hoping to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[17] He was eliminated in his second match and failed to qualify for the Olympics. Baldauf also competed at the 2024 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Istanbul, without qualifying for the Olympics.[18]

Achievements

YearTournamentLocationResultEvent
2017European ChampionshipsNovi Sad, Serbia1stGreco-Roman 98kg
2019European GamesMinsk, Belarus3rdGreco-Roman 97kg

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2017 European Wrestling Championships Results. United World Wrestling. live. 15 April 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215230213/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2018-02/results_05_novisad_v2.pdf. 15 December 2020.
  2. Web site: 2015 European Games Results . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200415162443/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/media/document/event/results/results_06_baku_0.pdf . 15 April 2020 . 15 April 2020 . United World Wrestling.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Web site: 2019 European Wrestling Championships Results. United World Wrestling. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20200412162932/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-04/opt-final-book_european_bucharest_2019.pdf. 12 April 2020. 12 April 2020.
  6. News: Baldauf tok en sterk bronse i Europalekene. 30 June 2019. Nettavissen Sports. 29 January 2020. no.
  7. Web site: 2019 European Games Wrestling Results. United World Wrestling. 4 April 2020.
  8. 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.
  9. News: 20 March 2021. Tap for Berge & co. i OL-kvalifiseringen i bryting. no. Nettavisen Sport. 20 March 2021.
  10. 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.
  11. Web site: 2021 World Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210509161754/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/world_og_qualifier_final_book.pdf. 9 May 2021. 9 May 2021. United World Wrestling.
  12. News: 8 May 2021. OL-håpet ute for bryte-Berge og lagkameratene. no. Nettavisen Sport. 9 May 2021.
  13. Web site: 2022 Yasar Dogu, Vehbi Emre & Hamit Kaplan Tournament Results Book . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220302085143/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-03/final-book-ranking-series-istambul-2022-light.pdf?VersionId=BMipbXFVxzXXeonWOfeVdKVeNlWlxYzt . 2 March 2022 . 2 March 2022 . United World Wrestling.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Web site: 2023 Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament Results Book . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230307130300/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2023-03/results_03_sofia.pdf?VersionId=g1eemM9v2lRqcW08Qi8J8daZveFnBhke . 7 March 2023 . 7 May 2023 . 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.
  18. 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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