Andrzej Supron

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Andrzej Supron
Andrzej Supron medal table

Wrestler

Poland
Olympic games
silver 1980 Moscow Light
World Championship
bronze 1974 Katowice Light
silver 1975 Minsk Light
silver 1978 Mexico City Light
gold 1979 San Diego Light
silver 1982 Katowice Welter
European Championship
bronze 1972 Katowice Light
silver 1974 Madrid Light
gold 1975 Ludwigshafen Light
bronze 1979 Bucharest Light
bronze 1981 Gothenburg Welter
gold 1982 Varna Welter
silver 1983 Budapest Welter
Junior European Championship
gold 1970 Huskvarna up to 65 kg espoirs

Andrzej Supron (born October 22, 1952 in Warsaw ) is a former Polish wrestler .

Career

Andrzej Supron grew up in Warsaw and began in 1963 at the sports club RKS "Elektrycznosz" Warsaw with the rings . In 1972 he began studying mining technology in Katowice and switched to GKS Katowice. During his career he was looked after by the coaches Tadeusz Świętulski, Jan Adamaszek, Antoni Masternak and Janusz Tracewski. Andrzej started as a lightweight and later grew into welterweight. He wrestled exclusively in Greco-Roman. Style.

He made his international debut at the European Youth Championships in Huskvarna, Sweden . There he won the European Championship in the class up to 65 kg body weight. As early as 1971 he started for the first time with the seniors at the World Championships in Sofia . He showed excellent fights for his age of 19 years and took 6th place in the lightweight.

At the 1972 European Championships in Katowice , he won his first senior medal. He also beat the later European champion Jürgen Hähnel from Leipzig , but lost to the Hungarian Antal Speer and came in 3rd place. At the Olympic Games in Munich he started in the lightweight and lost in the 4th round to the later Olympic champion Schamil Chisamutdinow . So he came in 8th place.

After Andrzej was relatively unsuccessful in 1973, he won four medals in a row at the 1974 European Championships, 1974 World Championships, 1975 European Championships and 1975 World Championships, including the gold medal at the 1975 European Championship in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . So Andrzej started with high hopes at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , but was again unable to win a medal. Suren Nalbandjan from the USSR and Ștefan Rusu from Romania , with whom he was to fight many tough battles over the next few years, prevented him from doing so. A 5th place remained for Andrzej.

Also in the period between the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games, Andrzej won several medals at international championships. In 1979 he became world champion for the first time. On the way there he also beat Stefan Rusu, to whom he had previously lost four times, on points. After he had only finished 10th at the 1980 European Championships after another defeat against Rusu, he went to the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow with mixed feelings . There he delivered an excellent tournament and won the silver medal. In the final battle, he was once again defeated by Stefan Rusu, albeit only very slightly on points. Before he had u. a. the strong Lars-Erik Skiöld from Sweden and Suren Nalbandjan were beaten.

In the following years Andrzej continued to be very successful. He changed the weight class and started now in welterweight. He had the greatest success in 1982 when he became European champion in Varna . In 1982 and 1983 he was runner-up in the world championship. In the welterweight class he met an “old” rival with Stefan Rusu and extremely strong “new” opponents with Ferenc Kocsis from Hungary , Roger Tallroth from Sweden and Michail Mamiaschwili from the USSR . His successes in 1982 and 1983 proved that he could assert himself against them.

Andrzej was denied participation in his fourth Olympic Games in 1984 in Los Angeles because of the boycott of these games by the socialist countries. Andrzej completed his career in 1985 at the World Championships in Kolbotn / Norway . There he was no longer able to win a medal. In the battle for the bronze medal, he was defeated by the 1984 Olympic champion Jouko Salimäki from Finland just on points.

Andrzej Supron was a very popular wrestler in all wrestling circles, as he always wrestled very fair and decent. He was always in a good mood and had a good word for all opponents. In addition, he looked brilliant and therefore had a large following among the female audience. He completed a coaching education from 1979 and worked after the end of his career as an active wrestler as a coach, including several years in the United States. Now Andrzej is a fitness entrepreneur in Warsaw.

The results of the international championships and some other tournaments in which Andrzej Supron participated can be found in the following section.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Le = lightweight, We = welterweight, back then up to 68 kg or 74 kg body weight.)

  • 1970, 1st place , Junior European Championship in Huskvarna , GR, up to 65 kg body weight, ahead of Mikko Huhtala , Finland , Anatoli Bykow , USSR , Erich Klaus , FRG , Anders Pettersson, Sweden , and Nikolai Dimow , Bulgaria ;
  • 1971, 6th place , World Cup in Sofia , GR, Le, with victories over Dada, Lebanon and Gary Alexander, USA , a draw against Klaus-Peter Göpfert , GDR , and defeats against Tanoue Takashi, Japan , and Stojan Apostolew , Bulgaria;
  • 1972, 3rd place , EM in Kattowitz , GR, Le, with victories over Josef Brötzner, Austria , Ibrahim Arslan, Turkey , Apostolew, Jürgen Hähnel , GDR , and a draw against Lars-Erik Skiöld , Sweden, and a defeat against Antal Steer , Hungary;
  • 1972, 8th place , Olympic Games in Munich , GR, Le, with victories over Mohamad Dalirian, Iran , and Sotirios Nakos, Greece , and defeats against Simion Popescu , Romania, and Shamil Chisamutdinow , USSR;
  • 1973, 5th place , EM in Helsinki , GR, Le, with victories over Jacques van Lancker, Belgium , Jakob Tanner , Switzerland , and Heinz-Helmut Wehling , GDR, and defeats against Sreten Damjanović , Yugoslavia, and Chisamutdinow;
  • 1973, 14th place , World Cup in Tehran , GR, Le, after defeats against Philipp Frey, USA, and Manfred Schöndorfer , FRG;
  • 1974, 2nd place , EM in Madrid , GR, Le, after victories over Skiöld, Steer, Eugen Hupcă , Romania, Wehling, Binju Chifudow, Bulgaria, and a defeat against Chisamutdinow;
  • 1974, 3rd place , World Cup in Katowice, GR, Le, with victories over Patrick Marcy, USA, Schöndorfer, Damjanovic, Markku Yli-Isotalo , Finland , and Istvan Nemeth, Hungary, and defeats against Nelson Dawidjan , USSR, and Wehling;
  • 1975, 1st place , EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , GR, Le, with victories over Victor Felicien, Belgium, Nemeth, Erol Mutlu , Turkey, Viktor Kuzmin, USSR, Schöndorfer and Skiöld;
  • 1975, 2nd place , World Championships in Minsk , GR, Le, with victories over van Lancker, Marcy, Damjanovic, Pavel Ehrlich, Czechoslovakia, Chifudow and Wehling and one defeat against Chisamutdinow;
  • 1976, 5th place , OS in Montreal , GR, Le, with victories over Nedko Nedew, Bulgaria, van Lancker and Kim Hae-Myong, North Korea , and defeats against Suren Nalbandjan , USSR, and Ștefan Rusu , Romania;
  • 1977, 5th place , EM in Bursa , GR, Le, with victories over Mileter Durovic, Yugoslavia, Wehling, Karoly Gal, Hungary, and a defeat against Nalbandjan; after that Andrzej had to give up due to injury;
  • 1977, 7th place , World Championship in Göteborg , GR, Le, with victories over Ruud Brinkmann, Netherlands , Howard Stupp, Canada , and Yli-Isotalo and defeats against Rusu and Skiöld;
  • 1978, 4th place , EM in Oslo , GR, Le, with victories over Wehling, Lacaze, France , Gal, Erich Klaus , FRG, and one defeat against Rusu; in the fight between Supron and Nikolai Dimow both wrestlers were disqualified for passivity;
  • 1978, 2nd place , World Cup in Mexico City , GR, Le, with victories over Stupp, Skiöld, Wehling and Dimow and one defeat against Rusu;
  • 1979, 1st place , "Ivan-Poddubny" tournament in Minsk , GR, Le, ahead of Karlow and Antipow, both USSR ;
  • 1979, 3rd place , EM in Bucharest , GR, Le, with victories over Nicolas Didier, France, Alexander Vejsada, Czechoslovakia, Matti Övermark, Finland, and Wehling and defeats to Iwan Staikow, Bulgaria, and Rusu;
  • 1979, 1st place , World Championships in San Diego , GR, Le, with victories over Alexander Aliew, USSR, Ferenc Csaba, Yugoslavia, Rusu, Gal and Klaus;
  • 1980, 10th place , EM in Prievidza , GR, Le, after defeats against Rusu and Iwan Atanassow, Bulgaria;
  • 1980, silver medal , OS in Moscow , GR, Le, with victories over Sakhidad Hamichi, Egypt , Gal, Buyundelder Bold, Mongolia, Naldandjan and Skiöld and one defeat against Rusu;
  • 1981, 3rd place , EM in Göteborg , GR, We, with victories over Lennart Lundell , Sweden, Borislaw Beliskow, Bulgaria, Peter Thätner , GDR, and Karoly Kasap , Yugoslavia, and one defeat against Ferenc Kocsis , Hungary;
  • 1982, 1st place , EM in Varna , GR, We, ahead of Roger Tallroth , Sweden, Kasap, Alexander Kudriawzew, USSR, Rusu and Iwan Shopow , Bulgaria;
  • 1982, 2nd place , World Championship in Katowice, GR, We, behind Rusu and in front of Kasap, Kudriawzew, Stojan Wassiliew, Bulgaria, and Jan Roger Olsen, Norway ;
  • 1983, 2nd place , EM in Budapest , GR, We, behind Michail Mamiaschwili , USSR, and in front of Kasap, Rusu, Tallroth and Takahiro Mukai, Japan;
  • 1984, 7th place , EM in Jönköping , GR, We, with victories over Jaroslaw Zeman , CSSR, Branko Dukic, Yugoslavia, and Jouko Salomäki , Finland, and defeats against Rusu and Karl-Heinz Helbing , FRG;
  • 1985, 4th place , World Cup in Kolbotn / Norway, GR, We, behind Mamiaschwili, Rusu and Salomäki and in front of Borislaw Velitschkow, Bulgaria, and Helbing

literature

  • Athletics magazine from 1970 to 1975,
  • The Ringer trade journal from 1975 to 1985,
  • Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976

Web links

Commons : Andrzej Supron  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Supron, Andrzej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw