Shaban Trstena (Macedonian: Шабан Трстена, romanized: Šaban Trstena, Albanian: Shaban Tërstena; born 1 January 1965)[1] is a Macedonian-Albanian former freestyle wrestler.
Trstena was born in Skopje, SFR Yugoslavia and is of Albanian ethnicity. Growing up in Čair, Trstena joined the Liria Wrestling Club and was trained by notable coaches Mentaz Allajbegu and Hajrush Sinani, who had also trained notable wrestlers Shaban Sejdiu, Bajram Qorrolli, Abdulla Mehmeti, Mustaf Syla, Shend Kamberi and Adnan Elezi.[2]
He would win in his wrestling carrier the 1984 European Championship and the 1990 European Wrestling Championship in Poznan. Trstena also won gold beating the then World Champion Valentin Yordanov.[6] Trstena would then win silver in 1983, 1985, 1986, and the bronze in 1982 and 1988.
In the 1982 World Wrestling Championships, Trstena reached bronze. During the three times he competed in the Mediterranean or Balkan Games, he won gold in all three. He has been pronounced the Best Macedonian athlete many times and once, in 1984 the best athlete of Yugoslavia. In 2000 he has been also pronounced the best Albanian athlete of the last century. He has won 715 matches out of 741 fights. He participated in 42 tournaments in the world winning 30 gold medals, the remainder being silver and bronze. At the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996 he won the fifth place.
References
^. Olimpijski komitet Srbije. Archived from the original on 6 March 2013.
^"Ndahet nga jeta Mentaz Allajbegu (1946 -2014)". yllpress.com. Yll Press. 19 January 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
^Singh, H (2004). 33 Olympic Games. Discovery Publishing House. ISBN9788171417643.
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