Attila Repka

Attila Repka (born January 10, 1968 in Miskolc ) is a Hungarian wrestler . In 1992 he became an Olympic champion in the Greco-Roman style lightweight .

Career

Attila Repka started wrestling as a teenager in 1978. He belonged to the sports club Diósgyőr BC and was trained by Jozsef Gutman. He learned the profession of cook, but from the age of 18, when he was accepted into the Hungarian national wrestling team due to his successes, concentrated only on wrestling. In 1987 he became the first Hungarian lightweight senior champion after winning several Hungarian championship titles as a junior. As a junior he wrestled in both styles (Greco-Roman style and free style), but as a senior he only wrestled in the Greco-Roman style.

He made his debut on the international wrestling mat at the Junior European Championship (Juniors = age group up to the age of 18) in Bologna in the weight class up to 65 kg body weight. He took 7th place. He achieved his first major international success in 1986 in Schifferstadt . He was there junior world champion (Juniors) in the class up to 65 kg in the Greco-Roman style. In the final he won over Johann Weingärtner from Germany . In Schifferstadt he also started in the free style and came in third place behind Eskender Tonsupow from the Soviet Union and Alexander Leipold from Germany. Attila Repka won another medal in the junior division in 1986 at the European Junior Championships for the Espoirs age group (up to the age of 20) in Lidköping . He came there in the lightweight in free style behind Kenschebek Omuralijew from the USSR and Angel Sirakow from Bulgaria and ahead of Georg Schwabenland from Germany on the 3rd place.

In 1987, Attila Repka made his debut at an international senior championship at the European Championships in Tampere in the Greco-Roman style. He came in the lightweight on the 6th place, where he lost the fight for 5th place against Claudio Passarelli from Germany with 6: 9 points. At the 1987 World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand he reached 9th place in the lightweight. In 1988 he had his first big success with the seniors at the European Championships in Kolbotn / Norway . He became the new European lightweight champion there with a victory in the final over Petrica Carare from Romania . At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 , however, he was unable to meet the great expectations that he had as European champion, because he only ended up in 8th place there.

In 1989 he was able to repeat his title win from 1988 at the European championship in Oulu in the lightweight. He defeated Ghani Yalouz from France in the decisive fights and Mnazakan Iskandarjan from the Soviet Union in the final . At the 1989 World Cup in Martigny / Switzerland , where Claudio Passarelli won the title, Attila Repka lost just 0: 1 points to Ghani Yalouz, but was able to fight for 5th place against Nandor Sabo from Yugoslavia with 5: 0 points win. At the European Championships in 1990 in Poznan, Attila Repka lost the pool final against Petrica Carare and was defeated in the fight for 3rd place against Ghani Yalouz. He had to accept a defeat at the 1990 World Cup in Rome in the pool finals . There he was defeated by Islam Duguchiev from the Soviet Union. But this time he was able to beat Petre Carara in the battle for the world championship bronze medal.

At the European Championships in 1991 in Aschaffenburg , Attila Repka was able to reach 2nd place in his pool despite a point defeat against Jannis Zamanduridis from Germany and was therefore able to fight for the bronze medal again. He came to a point victory over the Spaniard Pedro Villuela. At the 1991 World Cup in Varna he was eliminated early on and only came in 11th. At the European Championships in Copenhagen in 1992 , he faced his long-term rival Ghani Yalouz in the final, who surprised him after just 7 seconds and scored a "one". Despite all his efforts, he could not catch up with this 0: 1 in the further course of the fight and thus lost this final.

The 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona became the absolute highlight in Attila Repka's career . He presented himself there in absolute top form in the lightweight and won points over Stojan Dobrew, Bulgaria (4: 1), Nandor Sabo (10: 1), Petrica Carare (6: 0), Ghani Yalouz (6: 0) ) and Rodney Stacey Smith from the United States (10-0). Overall, he achieved a points ratio of 36: 2 in these five fights. Also in the final battle he was the dominant man against Islam Duguchiev, although his victory was narrow with 1-0 points. But he was sure of the well-deserved Olympic victory. In the professional journal Athletik (No. 9/1992, page 6) he is called the best wrestler of the entire Olympic wrestling tournament in the Greco-Roman style.

After this great success, Attila Repka initially took it easy. This was shown at the European Championships in 1993 in Istanbul , where he lost his first welterweight fight against the Finn Michael Lyski and had to retire unplaced. He didn't even start at the 1993 World Cup.

But he was again excellently prepared for the next three international championships in which he competed. At the European Championships in Athens in 1994 he was again European champion in the lightweight with a narrow 4: 3 point victory in the final battle over Ghani Yalouz. He was also in the final at the 1995 World Cup in Prague , but had to admit defeat to surprise man Rustam Adschi from Ukraine on points (2: 6). In 1996 he was then in Budapest in the lightweight for the fourth time European champion, where he defeated Alexander Tretyakov from Russia in the final with 3-0 points. His third participation in the Olympic Games in 1996 turned into a nightmare for him. In Atlanta he lost in the lightweight against Ryszard Wolny from Poland (1: 6) and against Valeri Nikitin from Estonia (0: 2) on points and only finished 22nd and last place in the lightweight. Then he ended his international wrestling career, in which he was enormously successful overall.

Attila Repka is also very well known in Germany's wrestling circles, because from 1991 he stood in the German Bundesliga for several years for the clubs KSC Germania Hösbach , KSV Elgershausen and AC Bavaria Goldbach .

During his wrestling career he began a career as a politician and was elected to the Hungarian National Assembly for his party Fidesz (Union of Young Democrats) in 1994 and 1998 . Since 2002 he has only been active in local politics. Since 2006 he has been the coach of the Hungarian national team of Greco-Roman wrestlers.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	style	Result
1985	7th	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Bologna	up to 65 kg body weight	GR	Winner: Valeri Nekljukow, USSR ahead of Józef Rosicki, Poland
1986	1.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Schifferstadt	up to 65 kg body weight	GR	before Johann Weingärtner, Germany , Grigori Tschinibailants, USSR a. Dražen Dodoš, Yugoslavia
1986	3.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Schifferstadt	up to 65 kg body weight	F.	behind Eskender Tonsupow, USSR a. Alexander Leipold , Germany
1986	3.	Junior European Championship (Espoirs) in Lidköping	Light	F.	behind Kenschebek Omuralijew, USSR u. Angel Sirakow, Bulgaria , in front of Georg Schwabenland , Germany
1986	4th	World Cup in Oak Lawns / USA	Light	GR	behind Michail Elisarow, USSR, Andrew Seras, USA a. Alfredo Vicet, Cuba
1987	3.	FILA Golden Grand Prix in Budapest	Light	GR	behind Petrica Carare , Romania a . Lewon Julfalakjan , USSR, before Sumer Kocak, Turkey a . Jerzy Kopański , Poland
1987	6th	EM in Tampere	Light	GR	behind Aslaudin Abajew , USSR, Jerzy Kopański, Tapio Sipilä , Finland , Petrica Carare u. Claudio Passarelli , Germany
1987	5.	Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Burnaby / Canada	Light	GR	behind Mnazakan Iskandarjan , USSR, Markus Pittner, Austria , Wassil Atanasow, Bulgaria a. Lars Lagerborg , Sweden
1987	9.	World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand	Light	GR	Winner: Aslaudin Abajew ahead of Nandor Sabo , Yugoslavia a. Jerzy Kopański
1987	8th.	FILA Grand Prix in Budapest	Light	GR	Winner: Aslaudin Abajew ahead of Jerzy Kopański u. Petrica Carare
1988	1.	FILA Grand Prix Gala in Budapest	Light	GR	in front of Joszef Miszaros, Hungary
1988	1.	EM in Kolbotn / Norway	Light	GR	before Petrica Carare, Lars Lagerborg a. Tapio Sipilä
1988	8th.	OS in Seoul	Light	GR	Winner: Lewon Julfalakjan ahead of Kim Sung-moon , South Korea a . Tapio Sipilä
1989	3.	German Grand Prix in Bonn	Light	GR	behind Mnazakan Iskandarjan u. Claudio Passarelli, in front of Petrica Carare and Shin Sang-joon, South Korea
1989	1.	European Wrestling Championships 1989 EM in Oulu	Light	GR	in front of Mnazakan Iskandarjan, Jukko Loikkas , Finland a. Ghani Yalouz , France
1989	5.	World Cup in Martigny / Switzerland	Light	GR	behind Claudio Passarelli, Ghani Yalouz, Lewon Julfalakjan u. Alexis Jimenez, Cuba
1990	3.	German Grand Prix in Saarbrücken	Light	GR	behind Claudio Passarelli u. Ghani Yalouz, in front of Lars Lageborg u. Petrica Carare
1990	4th	EM in Poznan	Light	GR	behind Islam Dugutschijew , USSR, Petrica Carare u. Ghani Yalouz
1990	3.	World Cup in Rome	Light	GR	behind Islam Dugutschijew u. Jannis Zamanduridis , Germany, in front of Petrica Carare u. Nandor Sabo
1991	3.	EM in Aschaffenburg	Light	GR	behind Kamandar Madschydau , USSR a. Martin Kornbakk , Sweden, ahead of Pedro Villuela, Spain a. Jannis Zamanduridis
1991	11.	World Cup in Varna	Light	GR	Winner: Islam Dugutschijew ahead of Martin Kornbakk u. Stoyan Dobrew, Bulgaria
1992	2.	German Grand Prix in Kelheim	Light	GR	behind Claudio Passarelli, in front of Ghani Yalouz, Petrica Carare u. Terje Nord, Norway
1992	2.	EM in Copenhagen	Light	GR	behind Ghani Yalouz, in front of Valeri Nikitin , Estonia , Petrica Carare u. Ryszard Wolny , Poland
1992	gold	OS in Barcelona	Light	GR	with victories over Stojan Stojanow, Bulgaria, Nandor Sabo, Petrica Carare, Ghani Yalouz, Rodney Smith , USA a. Islam Duguchiev
1993	unpl.	EM in Istanbul	Welter	GR	after losing to Michael Lyski, Finland
1994	6th	German Grand Prix in Koblenz	Welter	GR	behind Beslan Tschagijew , Russia, Uladsimir Kapytau , Belarus , Erik Hahn , Germany, Jarosław Siuj, Poland u. Mirko Jahn , Germany
1994	1.	EM in Athens	Light	GR	before Ghani Yalouz, Islam Dugutschijew, Rustam Adschi , Ukraine a. Ryszard Wolny
1995	1.	Tournament in Linz	Light	GR	before Petr Bielesz , Poland a. Fritz Weltert, Switzerland
1995	2.	World Cup in Prague	Light	GR	behind Rustam Adschi, in front of Jannis Zamanduridis, Ryszard Wolny u. Tariel Melelashvili, Georgia
1996	2.	Italian Grand Prix in Faenza	Welter	GR	behind Filiberto Ascuy Aguilera , Cuba, in front of Erik Hahn u. Torbjörn Kornbakk , Sweden
1996	1.	EM in Budapest	Light	GR	in front of Alexander Tretyakov , Russia, Ghani Yalouz, Valeri Nikitin a. Marko Yli-Hannuksela , Finland
1996	22nd	OS in Atlanta	Light	GR	after defeats against Ryszard Wolny u. Valeri Nikitin

Hungarian championships

Attila Repka became Hungarian master in Greco-Roman style in 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1995 a. 1996 lightweight and 1993 and 1994 welterweight. In addition, in 1987 he was also the Hungarian lightweight champion in free style.

Explanations

• GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Lightweight, then up to 68 kg, welter weight, then up to 74 kg body weight

swell

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

Web links

• Profile of Attila Repka at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Attila Repka in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait of Attila Repka
• Fight of Attila Repka (red) against Ghani Yalouz