András Sike

Bust of András Sike

András Sike (born July 18, 1965 in Eger ) is a former Hungarian wrestler . He was Olympic champion in 1988 in the Greco-Roman style bantamweight.

Career

András Sike grew up in Eger and started wrestling there in 1977 as a teenager at the Eger SE sports club . He focused entirely on the Greco-Roman style. After becoming Hungarian youth champion, he was delegated to the top club Ferencvarosi Torna Club (FTC) Budapest in 1982. There he could devote himself entirely to wrestling. In 1983 he started for the first time at a major international championship, the Junior World Championship in Kristiansund, Norway . With third place behind Izie Surtakow, USSR and Pencho Mladenow, Bulgaria , he won a medal in the bantamweight division. As a junior he started again in 1964 at a European Junior Championship (Espoirs) in Fredrikshavn , Denmark . He was vice European champion behind Valerios Martirosjan from the USSR .

As an adult, András Sike, at a height of 1.67 meters, with a few exceptions, wrestled throughout his career in bantamweight, the weight limit of which was 57 kg.

In 1985, 1986 and 1987 he started at the European Championships. He did not yet achieve any medal positions, but achieved good results in 1985 in Leipzig and 1986 in Athens with 6th place and in 1987 in Tampere with 4th place. Oganes Arutjunjan and Timur Kalemulin from the Soviet Union , Keijo Pehkonen from Finland , Patrice Mourier from France and Haralambos Holidis from Greece built him even better placements in these years. In Tampere, András Sike u. a. also against the German champion Peter Behl on points.

At the European Championships in 1988 in Kolbotn, a suburb of Oslo , András Sike won a senior medal for the first time. Behind Alexander Schestakow from the Soviet Union and Stojan Balow from Bulgaria he placed in third place in front of such good wrestlers as Rıfat Yıldız from the Federal Republic of Germany , Vice World Champion from 1987, Patrice Mourier , World Champion from 1987 and Haralambos Holidis. Against Rifat Yildiz he managed a narrow 2-1 point win.

In the same year András Sike achieved the greatest success of his career, because he became Olympic champion in the bantamweight division in Seoul . He won there ahead of Stojan Balow and Haralambos Holidis . On the way to the Olympic victory he met u. a. back to Rıfat Yıldız and defeated him prematurely because Yildiz was disqualified for "passivity".

In the following years András Sike won medals at the 1989 World Championships in Martigny / Switzerland , where he finished third, at the 1990 European Championships in Prague , where he finished second behind Patrice Mourier , and at the 1991 World Championships in Varna , where Rıfat Yıldız won and clearly defeated András Sike on points.

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , András Sike from Rifat Yildiz even suffered a shoulder defeat after 1 minute and 38 seconds and only finished 10th there.

A good result achieved András Sike then at the European Championships 1993 in Istanbul , where he finished 5th, while at the European Championships in 1994 in Athens starting for the first time at featherweight, only the 14th Place and in the European Championship in 1995 in Besancon only took 17th place.

András Sike also wrestled in the German Bundesliga for KSV Wiesental in 1990 and 1991 .

After the end of his career he was a trainer at FTC Budapest. One of his students was Zoltán Fodor , who won a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games. In 2001, András Sike was sentenced to one and a half years in prison for fraud in connection with real estate deals and lost his coaching job as a result. He has been running a restaurant in Budapest since his release from prison.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Ba = Bantamweight, Fe = featherweight, back then up to 57 kg or 62 kg body weight)

• 1983, 3rd place , Junior World Championships in Kristiansund / Norway , GR, Ba, behind Izie Surtukow, USSR and Pecho Mladenow, Bulgaria , ahead of Dietmar Späth, FRG ;
• 1984, 2nd place , Junior European Championship in Fredrikshavn / Denmark , GR, Ba, behind Valerios Martirosjan, USSR and in front of Pencho Mladenow;
• 1985, 6th place , EM in Leipzig , GR, Ba, behind Oganes Arutjunjan, USSR, Nicolae Zamfir , Romania , Benni Ljungbeck , Sweden , Mieczyslaw Tracz, Poland and Heiko Röll, GDR ;
• 1986, 6th place , EM in Athens , GR, Ba, behind Timur Kalemulin , USSR, Haralambos Holidis , Greece , Keijo Pehkonen , Finland , Nicolae Zamfir and Peter Balow, Bulgaria ;
• 1986, 4th place , World Cup in Oak Lawns / USA, GR, Ba, behind Sergei Bulanow , USSR, Amadorys Gonzalez-Labrada, Cuba a. Anthony Amado, USA;
• 1987, 4th place , 4th place, EM in Tampere , GR, Ba, behind Keijo Pehkonen, Emil Radew, Bulgaria a. Patrice Mourier , France , ahead of Sergei Bulanow and Haralambos Holidis;
• 1987, 16th place , World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand , GR, Ba, winner: Patrice Mourier ahead of Rıfat Yıldız , FRG and Keijo Pehkonen ;
• 1987, 3rd place , FILA Grand Prix in Budapest , GR, Ba, behind Sergei Bulanow and Emil Iwanow , Bulgaria, in front of Rıfat Yıldız and Patrice Mourier ;
• 1988, 3rd place , EM in Kolbotn / Norway, GR, Ba, behind Alexander Schestakow , USSR a. Stojan Balow , Bulgaria a. before Rıfat Yıldız , Patrice Mourier u. Haralambos Holidis ;
• 1988, 2nd place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg , GR, Ba, behind Rıfat Yıldız u. before Aghassi Manukjan , USSR, Benni Ljungbeck a. Peter Behl , FRG;
• 1988, gold medal , OS in Seoul , GR, Ba, in front of Stojan Balow , Haralambos Holidis , Yang Changling, People's Republic of China , Huh Byung-huh, South Korea a . Ghazi F. Salah, Iraq ;
• 1988, 2nd place , FILA_Grand-Rix-Gala in Budapest , GR, Ba, behind Alexander Schestakow u. before Rıfat Yıldız , Geza Ivancsis, Hungary a . Stoyan Balow;
• 1989, 3rd place , World Championships in Martigny / Switzerland , GR, Ba, behind Emil Iwanow u. Alexander Schestakow, before Michiko Fujioka, Japan , Pierre Dikanda , Sweden a. Yang Changling;
• 1990, 2nd place , EM in Prague , GR, Ba, behind Patrice Mourier u. before Rıfat Yıldız , Sergei Sabiejworota, USSR, Pierre Dikanda u. Kiril Stepanow, Bulgaria;
• 1991, 5th place , EM in Aschaffenburg , GR, Ba, behind Alexander Ignatenko , USSR, Marian Sandu , Romania, Rıfat Yıldız u. Zoran Galovic, Yugoslavia ;
• 1991, 3rd place , World Championships in Varna , GR, Ba, behind Rıfat Yıldız u. Alexander Ignatenko u. before Patrice Mourier , Zoran Galovic u. Michiko Fujioka;
• 1992, 10th place , OS in Barcelona , GR, Ba, winner: An Bong-han , South Korea ahead of Rıfat Yıldız u. Zetian Sheng, China;
• 1993, 5th place , EM in Istanbul , GR, Ba, behind Mikael Lindgren , Sweden, Ruslan Kamikow, Ukraine , Marian Sandu u. Stanislaw Patowski, Poland;
• 1994, 14th place , EM in Athens , GR, Fe, winner: Grigori Komuschenkow, USSR ahead of Aghassi Manukjan, Armenia a . Igor Petrenko, Belarus;
• 1995, 17th place , EM in Besançon , GR, Ba, winner: Ruslan Chakimow, Ukraine ahead of Aghassi Manukjan u. Jan Ulbrich , Germany

Hungarian championships

András Sike was born in 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1992 a. 1993 Hungarian bantamweight champion. In addition, he was with FTC Budapest 1982, 1985, 1987 a. 1988 Hungarian team champion.

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 5/85, 5/86, 6/87, 5/88, 10/88, 9/89, 5/90, 5/91, 10/91, 9/92 u. 5/93,
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Website "sports.123.com",
• Website "www.webspawner.com"

Web links

• Profile of András Sike at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• András Sike in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait of András Sike ( Memento from January 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Hungarian)