Antonín Nič

Antonín Nič (born November 22, 1905 in Vamberk ; † unknown) was a Czechoslovak wrestler . He was vice European champion in 1935 in the Greco-Roman style in bantamweight.

Career

Nič started wrestling as a teenager. He went to Prague and became a member of the Zizka Prague sports club . Later he joined the police and therefore started for the SV Prague police . Antonín Nič wrestled almost exclusively in Greco-Roman during his entire career. Style. He missed the start at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam because he lost to Jindrich Maudr in the Czechoslovakian elimination .

He made his debut on the international wrestling mat at the European Championships in Greco-Roman. Style in Dortmund in 1929 . He started there in the bantamweight division and lost after two victorious fights against Paul Reiber from Germany and Svend Martinsen from Norway , but came in 3rd place and won a bronze medal.

In 1930 Antonín Nič just missed a medal at the European Championships in Stockholm with 4th place. He lost in Stockholm a. a. against the Swede Herman Tuvesson , who defeated him several times in his further career. At the European Championships in 1931 in Prague , Antonín Nič managed only one victory over Karlo Toth from Yugoslavia . Against Laszlo Szekfü from Hungary and Herman Tuvesson he lost and came in 6th place.

In 1932 he had to do without a start at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles because Czechoslovakia could only send a very small team to these games for financial reasons.

At the European Championships in Helsinki in 1933 and in Rome in 1934 , Antonín Nič only won one fight. In Helsinki he defeated Johan Pontson from Estonia and in Rome Michael Kurland from Denmark . He suffered defeats at these championships from Väinö Perttunen and Esko Hjelt from Finland and twice from Ödön Zombori from Hungary. At the European Championships 1935 in Copenhagen the greatest success, he succeeded in his career when he with three wins and one defeat against Herman Tuvesson Vice European champion was.

In the Czechoslovakian elimination for the Olympic Games in Berlin Antonín Nič was defeated in his ancestral Greco-Roman. Style against Ferdinand Hyza . But at least he was able to qualify for Berlin in free style. There it became clear, however, that Nič was not a freestyle wrestler, because he lost to Gustave Laporte from Belgium and Marcello Nizzola from Italy and only finished 12th in the bantamweight division.

In 1937 he started again in the Greco-Roman style at the European Championships in Paris and won the bronze medal there with third place. On the way to this medal he defeated u. a. also the German Olympic third party from 1936 Johannes Herbert on points. He lost against Egon Svensson from Sweden and Väinö Perttunen.

In 1939, Antonín Nič could no longer take part in the European Championship in Oslo because of the occupation of his home country Czechoslovakia by Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht .

After 1945 Antonín Nič worked as a wrestling trainer for various sports clubs.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style, Ba = bantam weight, back then up to 57 kg body weight)

• 1929, 3rd place , EM in Dortmund , GR, Ba, with victories over Ferdinand Pytela, Austria a . Henryk Ganzera, Poland a . Defeats against Paul Reiber , Germany a . Svend Martinsen , Norway ;

• 1929, 2nd place , intern. Czechoslovak Championship in Pressburg , GR, Ba, out. Wondra et al. before Weissinger, bde. Austria;

• 1930, 4th place , EM in Stockholm , GR, Ba, with a victory over Ragnvald Moe, Norway a. Losses against Laszlo Szekfü , Hungary a . Herman Tuvesson , Sweden ;

• 1931, 6th place , EM in Prague , GR, Ba, with a victory over Karlo Toth, Yugoslavia a . Defeats against Laszlo Szekfü u. Herman Tuvesson;

• 1931, 1st place , intern. Czechoslovak Championship in Roudnice nad Labem , GR, Ba, before Sobotka u. Tolar, bde. Czechoslovakia ;

• 1933, 5th place , EM in Helsinki , GR, Ba, with a victory over Johan Pontson, Estonia a . Losses against Väinö Perttunen , Finland a . Ödön Zombori , Hungary;

• 1934, 2nd place , International Czech Championship in Proßnitz / Moravia , GR, Ba, behind Ferdinand Hyza , Czechoslovakia a . in front of Banyasz, Hungary;

• 1934, 8th place , EM in Rome , GR, Ba, with a victory over Michael Kurland, Denmark a . Defeats against Esko Hjelt , Finland a. Ödön Zombori;

• 1935, 2nd place , EM in Copenhagen , GR, Ba, with victories over Esko Hjelt, Janis Beinarovics, Latvia a . Georges Bayle, France a . a loss to Herman Tuvesson;

• 1936, 12th place , OS in Berlin , F, Ba, after defeats against Gustave Laporte, Belgium a . Marcello Nizzola , Italy ;

• 1937, 3rd place , EM in Paris , GR, Ba, with victories over Johannes Herbert , Germany, Evald Sikk, Estonia a. Meeruws, Belgium a. Losses against Egon Svensson , Sweden a. Väinö Perttunen;

• 1938, 8th place , EM in Tallinn , GR, Ba, with a victory over Eigil Johansen, Denmark a. Losses against Kurt Pettersén , Sweden a. Ferdinand Schmitz , Germany

swell

• Trade journal Athletics , numbers: 18/19/1929, 10/11/12/1930, 14/15/1931, 32/33/1932, 19/20/1934, 16/17/1935 and 31/32/1936
• Kraftsport trade journal , number 8/1937
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of FILA , 1976, pages E 23/24, E - 35 u. E - 37

Web links

• Antonín Nič's profile at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science
• Antonín Nič in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )