Andrzej Wroński

Andrzej Wroński 2011

Andrzej Adam Wroński (born October 8, 1965 in Kartuzy ) is a former Polish wrestler . He was an Olympic heavyweight champion in the Greco-Roman style in 1988.

Career

Andrzej Wroński started wrestling with three brothers in 1976 at the age of eleven. The first club to which he belonged from 1976 to 1984 was GLKS "Morena" Żukowo . Then he joined the Polish army and moved to Legia Warsaw . In the course of his long and very successful career, he had many coaches, all of whom had a share in his successes. These were Henryk Borecki, Boleslaw Dubicki, Wiesław Dziadura , Stanisław Krzeminski and Ryszard Świerad . They ensured that Wroński reached the Polish top class in the Greco-Roman style in the mid-1980s and replaced the then best Polish heavyweight wrestlers Roman Wrocławski and Roman Bierła , who were among the world class. In 1987 he was used for the first time at world championships, but did not come in Clermont-Ferrand beyond a 13th place. His victory at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was all the more surprising . There he beat the German champion Gerhard Himmel in the final with a lifter with a rush. An action that earned him two points and which Heaven couldn't catch up.

At the European Championships in Oulu in 1989 , he proved that his Olympic victory was no coincidence, because he was also European champion. Things didn't go very well for him at the 1989 World Championships in Martigny / Switzerland . He lost in two preliminary rounds against Dušan Masár from the CSSR and Ilja Wassiljewitsch from Bulgaria . He won the fight for 5th place against Ferenc Takacs from Hungary . Gerhard Himmel became world champion, but due to Wroński's early defeats he did not have an Olympic revanche against him.

At the European Championships in Poznan in 1990 , Wroński won a bronze medal. He won his first four fights by disqualifying his opponent without having scored a single technical point. In the 5th fight he was stopped by Maik Bullmann , who played his last championship for the GDR here . At the World Cup of the same year Wroński retired prematurely after a defeat against the new Russian star Sjarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch . Against the same athlete he lost in the second round of the 1991 European Championships in Aschaffenburg and was eliminated again without winning a medal. It was similarly bad for him at the 1991 World Cup in Varna, where he only finished 9th.

In spring 1992 he won his second European heavyweight title in Copenhagen by defeating the Russian Ibragim Tschawtschalow . At the Olympic Games this year he landed on the thankless 4th place after he suffered a defeat by the American Dennis Koslowski in the first round .

Also at the European Championships in 1993 in Istanbul, he finished 4th, where he was again defeated against Sjarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch. At the World Championships in Stockholm he won the bronze medal in autumn 1993.

One of his most successful years was 1994. First he became European champion in Athens with a final victory over the Greek Triantafilidis and also world champion in Tampere in the fall of the same year .

In 1995 Wroński only competed in the World Championships in Prague . He met Sweden's Mikael Ljungberg in the 4th round and was defeated by 5: 7 points after a 5-0 lead. After this bitter defeat, he was no longer fully motivated and lost in the battle for the bronze medal against Georgij Saldadze from Ukraine .

In the 1996 Olympic year, he first reached third place at the European Championships in Budapest , after failing again in a preliminary round match against Mikael Ljungberg. At the Olympic Games in Atlanta he was in top form and won his second gold medal after 1988. In the semifinals, he beat the 1992 Olympic champion Héctor Milián from Cuba and in the final Sjarhej Lishtwan from Belarus .

In the following years Wroński won no further international title. However, he was still in very good shape at some championships and was bronze medalist at the 1997 World Championship and vice world champion again at the 1999 World Championship. After finishing only 13th at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , he resigned.

In that year he made a comeback in the super heavyweight division at the age of 38. However, he could no longer place himself in the front field at the 2003 World Cup and also failed to qualify for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens . Andrzej Wroński, who also wrestled several championship rounds in the German Bundesliga for VfK Schifferstadt , then finally resigned. As of the 2006 Grand Prix of the FRG in Leipzig , he has recently appeared on the mat as a referee.

Andrzej Wroński is an officer ( chorąży sztabowy ) in the Polish Army . In September 2010 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

International success

(All competitions in the Greco-Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, light heavyweight, up to 1996 up to 90 kg body weight, from 1997 up to 97 kg body weight, heavyweight, up to 1996 up to 100 kg body weight, abolished from 1997 , Super heavyweight, up to 130 kg body weight)

year	space	competition	Weight class
1985	5.	Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Colorado Springs	Semi-difficult	behind Sauri Iwanoschwili, Soviet Union , Roger Gries , FRG, Sándor Major , Hungary and Stanislaw Tanew, Bulgaria
1987	13.	World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand	Heavy	Winner: Guram Guduschauri , Soviet Union ahead of Dennis Koslowski , USA, Vasile Andrei , Romania and Jörg Kotte , GDR
1988	2.	FILA Grand Prix Gala	Heavy	behind Anatol Fedarenka , Soviet Union and in front of Tibor Kovács , Hungary
1988	gold	OS in Seoul	Heavy	before Gerhard Himmel , FRG, Koslowski, Ilja Georgiew , Bulgaria, Jozef Tertelj , Yugoslavia and Yoo Young-Tae, Korea and Guduschauri
1989	1.	EM in Oulu	Heavy	before Ion Ieremciuc , Romania, Vyacheslav Klimenko, Soviet Union, Gerhard Himmel and Jörg Kotte
1989	5.	World Cup in Martigny / Switzerland	Heavy	behind sky, Ilya Wassiliew, Bulgaria, Fedarenka, Dušan Masár , Czechoslovakia and in front of Ferenc Takacs, Hungary
1990	3.	EM in Poznan	Heavy	behind Fedarenka and Maik Bullmann , GDR and in front of Ion Ieremciuc and Roger Gries
1990	10.	World Cup in Rome	Heavy	Winner: Sjarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch , Soviet Union ahead of Major, Masár and Stipe Damjanović, Yugoslavia
1991	12.	EM in Aschaffenburg	Heavy	Winner Sjarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch ahead of Andreas Steinbach , FRG, Major and Celal Inceler, Turkey
1991	9.	World Cup in Varna	Heavy	Winner: Héctor Milián , Cuba, ahead of Jörgen Olsson , Sweden, Sjarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch and Atanas Komtschew , Bulgaria
1992	1.	EM in Copenhagen	Heavy	before Ibragim Tschawtschalow , CIS, Steinbach, Komtschew, Ion Ieremciuc and Helge Hallik, Estonia
1992	4th	OS in Barcelona	Heavy	behind Héctor Milián, Koslowski, Sjarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch and in front of Steinbach and Ion Ieremciuc
1993	4th	EM in Istanbul	Heavy	behind Sjarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch, Chavtschalow and Tengis Teodoradze, Georgia and in front of Yahin Yılmaz, Turkey and Roger Gries
1993	3.	World Cup in Stockholm	Heavy	behind Mikael Ljungberg, Sweden and Tschawtschalow, in front of Sung Il-Song, Korea and James Johnsson, USA
1994	1.	EM in Athens	Heavy	before Alexander Triantafilidis, Greece, Georgij Saldadze , Ukraine, Sjarhej Lishtvan, Belarus and Stipe Damjanović, Croatia
1994	1.	World Cup in Tampere	Heavy	in front of Bakur Gogitidze , Georgia, Georgij Saldadze, Lishtvan, Chavtschalow and Yahin Yılmaz, Turkey
1995	4th	World Cup in Prague	Heavy	behind Ljungberg, Héctor Milián, Georgij Saldadze and in front of Tschawtschalow and Giuseppe Giunta, Italy
1996	3.	EM in Budapest	Heavy	behind Lishtwan and Igor Grabovetski, Moldova and in front of Giunta, Tschawtschalow and Bakur Gogitidze
1996	gold	OS in Atlanta	Heavy	in front of Lishtwan, Ljungberg, Teimuras Edischeraschwili, Russia, Héctor Milián and Brabovetski
1997	3.	World Cup in Wroclaw	Semi-difficult	behind Gogi Koguaschwili , Russia and Fedarenka and in front of Maik Bullmann , Ljungberg and Vyacheslav Olijnyk , Ukraine
1998	2.	FILA test tournament in Colorado Springs	Super heavy	behind Rulon Gardner , USA and in front of Corey Farkas, USA
1998	8th.	World Cup in Gävle / Sweden	Semi-difficult	Winner: Koguaschwili ahead of Marek Švec , Czech Republic, Georgij Saldadze and Petre Sudureac, Romania
1999	11.	EM in Sofia	Semi-difficult	Winner: Ljungberg ahead of Ali Mollow, Bulgaria, Sudureac and Georgij Saldadze
1999	2.	World Cup in Athens	Semi-difficult	behind Koguashvili and in front of Ljungberg, Hakkı Başar , Turkey and Gennadi Tschadze, Georgia
2000	13.	OS in Sydney	Semi-difficult	Winner: Ljungberg ahead of Georgij Saldadze, Garret Lowney, USA and Konstantinos Thanos, Greece
2003	2.	World military championship in Istanbul	Super heavy	behind Yekta Yılmaz Guel, Turkey and in front of Xenofou Koutsiontas, Greece
2003	12.	World Cup in Créteil	Super heavy	Winner: Chassan Barojew , Russia, ahead of Mihály Deák Bárdos , Hungary and Georgi Zurzumia, Kazakhstan
2004	10.	Olympic qualification tournament in Novi Sad	Super heavy	Winner: Mijaín López , Cuba, ahead of Yımaz and Mirian Giorgadse , Georgia

Polish championships

Andrzej Wroński won the Polish championship thirteen times from 1988 to 2000.

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andrzej Adam WRONSKI. Retrieved March 26, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Zuaro first official from the US to be inducted into the FILA Hall of Fame  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on September 11, 2010  

Web links

• Andrzej Wroński's profile at the Institute of Applied Training Science
• Andrzej Wroński in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

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