Andrzej Malina

Andrzej Janusz Malina (born October 11, 1960 in Klarysewic near Warsaw ) is a former Polish wrestler.

Career

Andrzej Malina began at the age of 13 years with the rings . His first club, for which he went on the mat, was "Electronics" Plasezcno, later, after he had achieved initial success, he moved to Legia Warsaw . He owes his progress in the course of his career primarily to the coaches Ryszard Glowacki and Boleslaw Dubicki and in the national wrestling team of Poland to the coaches Janusz Tracewski and Stanislaus Krzesinski. Andrzej Malina, who wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style, became Polish youth champion in 1978 and finished 5th in the middleweight division at the European Junior Championships (Espoirs) of the same year in Oulu, Finland . He also did well at the Junior European Championships in 1979 and 1980 (bronze medal in 1980) and at the Junior World Championships in 1979 he was fourth.

When he first started in the seniors in 1980, he only reached 9th place at the European Championships in Prievidza . For the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , Jan Dolgowics was then preferred to him.

It wasn't until two years later, in 1982 in Varna , that it was used again at an international championship. This time he was in excellent shape and became vice European champion. In the final he was defeated by the Soviet athlete Janimov. Andrzej won his next medal at the 1983 European Championships in Budapest . In the semifinals he lost to Taimuraz Abkhazawa from the USSR . At the world championships of the same year in Kiev , he finished 5th.

In 1984 he was back at the European championship in Jönköping . This time he defeated his feared opponent Ion Draica from Romania in his group , but was defeated by the Bulgarian Angel Bonchev. In the battle for the bronze medal he was also defeated by the Finn Jarmo Övermark. A start at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was denied to him because of the boycott of the Games by the socialist states.

From 1985 he started a weight class higher, in the light heavyweight division. At the European Championships this year in Leipzig , he just missed a medal with 4th place. At the world championships of that year and at the European championship in 1986 he was not at the start. At the 1986 World Cup in Budapest , he became world champion in a superior style. In the final he beat the experienced Atanas Komtschew from Bulgaria.

This victory was the highlight of his career. At the following World Championships in 1987 and at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , he was no longer able to place in the front field. He then ended his career as an active wrestler.

The trained electrical engineer attended the Academy for Sport and Education in Warsaw and then took over a position as a wrestler trainer in the Polish Wrestling Association.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, then up to 82 kg or 90 kg body weight)

• 1978, 5th place , Juniors (Espoirs) -EM in Oulu , GR, Wed, behind Ion Draica , Romania , Piotr Winitschenko, USSR , Sandor Kapesz, Hungary and Sören Claesson , Sweden ;
• 1979, 4th place , Juniors (Espoirs) World Championships in Haparanda , GR, Wed, behind Jewgeni Stamow, Bulgaria , Michail Baranow, USSR and Claesson;
• 1980, 9th place , EM in Prievidza , GR, Wed, after defeats against Frank Andersson , Sweden and Karoly Kopas, Yugoslavia ;
• 1980, 3rd place , Juniors (Espoirs) -EM in Bursa , GR, Wed, behind Marian Dadakow, Bulgaria and Oleg Manin, USSR;
• 1982, 2nd place , EM in Varna , GR, Wed, behind Janimow, USSR and in front of Draica, Kurt Spaniol , FRG and Jarmo Övermark , Finland ;
• 1983, 3rd place , EM in Budapest , GR, Wed, behind Taimuraz Abchasawa , USSR and Draicu and in front of Sören Claesson, Gyula Erdelyi, Hungary and Momir Petkovic , Yugoslavia;
• 1983, 5th place , World Championships in Kiev , GR, Wed, behind Abchazawa, Lennard Lundell , Sweden, Övermark, Draica and in front of Siegfried Seibold , FRG;
• 1984, 4th place , EM in Jönköping , GR, Wed, with victories over André Bouchoule , France , Draica and Lothar Ruch, FRG and defeats against Angel Bontschew, Bulgaria and Abchazawa;
• 1985, 4th place , EM in Leipzig , Gr, Hs, with victories over Govedarica, Yugoslavia, Uwe Sachs , FRG, Franz Pitschmann , Austria and Zlatarow, Bulgaria and defeats to Ilie Matei , Romania and Hannula, Finland;
• 1986, 1st place , World Championships in Budapest , GR, Hs, ahead of Atanas Komtschew , Bulgaria, Jindirch Durcak, CSSR , Yasutoshi Moriyama, Japan , Lajos Szegervari, Hungary and Bernhard Ban, Yugoslavia;
• 1987, 11th place , World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand , GR, Hs, winner: Wladimir Popow , USSR before Sandor Major, Hungary and Komtschew;
• 1988, 12th place , OS in Seoul , GR, Hs, with victory over Miriyama and defeat against Pitschmann and Christer Gulldén , Sweden

swell

• 1) Trade journal "Der Ringer", numbers: 5/1980, page 8, 5/6/1982, pages 5/6, 5/1983 / pages 4 to 7, 9/1983, page 9, 10/1983, pages 4 to 6, 5/1984, pages 8/9, 5/1985, pages 4/5, 5/1986, pages 6-9, 11/1986, pages 4 to 7, 9/1987, pages 4 to 7 and Pages 9/10, 10/1988, pages 3 to 8
• 2) International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

• Profile of Andrzej Malina at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Overview of the medal winners at world championships in Greco-Roman. Light Heavyweight Style (Archive Link)

Footnotes

1. ↑ There is an error in the database. The European Junior Championship on August 26, 1980 is listed there twice, once as a championship for the “Espoirs” and once as such for the “Juniors”. In truth, it is one and the same event.