Benni Ljungbeck

Benni Ingemar Ljungbeck (born July 20, 1958 in Hässleholm ) is a former Swedish wrestler and current coach. He won a bronze medal in the Greco-Roman style in the bantamweight at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow .

Career

Ljungbeck began wrestling as a teenager in Klippan . He concentrated fully on the Greco-Roman style. His coach at the wrestling club (Brottning Klub) BK Klippan was the Finn Leo Honkala . Benni Ljungbeck began his international wrestling career at the age of sixteen. He finished in 1974 at the junior European championship in Haparanda in paper weight 5th place and in the senior Nordic champion in paper weight before the Finn Hirvonen and the Norwegian Stöwe.

At the Junior World Championships in 1975 in Haskovo , he came in flyweight on the 4th place. He took the same place at the 1977 Junior World Championship in Las Vegas . At the European Junior Championships in Oulu in 1978 , he then won his first medal at an international championship in bantamweight with 2nd place.

From 1977 Benni Ljungbeck started regularly at the international senior championships. At several world and European championships from 1977 to 1979 he had to be content with middle places in bantamweight. His big breakthrough came in 1980. First, he at the European Championships this year in Prievidza Vice European champion bantamweight behind Mihai Boţilă from Romania , but he placed it against such world-class wrestlers like Pasquale Passarelli from the FRG and Vitaly Konstantinov from the Soviet Union . He also won a medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , the bronze one. Here only Shamil Serikow and Józef Lipień lay in front of him.

At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 1981 Benni Ljungbeck fought his way back to the final with four wins in bantamweight, in which he was defeated by the German Pasquale Passarelli. With Passarelli, he was to have many tough battles in the years that followed. At the World Cup in Oslo in 1981 he met him again and lost again. Since he had to accept a defeat against the Finn Ilpo Seppälä , it was only enough for him in this championship for 7th place.

In 1983 Benni Ljungbeck paused due to an injury and missed a medal at the 1984 European Championships in Jönköping in bantamweight with fourth place. At this championship he won in his first fight against Pasquale Passarelli , but retired after defeats to Frank Wohlgemuth from the GDR and Petar Balow from Bulgaria before reaching the final. At the Olympic Games in Los Angeles he won over Antonio Caltabiano from Italy , Ilpo Seppälä and Ronny Sidge from Norway and lost to Haralambos Holidis from Greece and Masaki Eto from Japan . In the fight for 5th place he could no longer compete against the American Frank Fambiano. He did not meet the Olympic champion Pasquale Passarelli.

More medals won Ljungbeck at the European Championships 1985 in Leipzig , where he bantamweight behind Oganes Arutjunjan from the USSR and Nicolae Zamfir of Romania finished 3rd and at the European Championships in 1986 in Athens , where he featherweight behind Hungary Árpád Sipos Vice- European champion was.

His last start in an international championship he completed in 1987 in the featherweight division at the World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand. He dropped out here early and only reached 13th place. Although Benni Ljungbeck won several medals at international championships, it was not granted to him in his long career to be on the top podium.

After his wrestling career, Benni Ljungbeck, who lives in Ängelholm, devoted himself to coaching. He has been a trainer in the Danish Wrestling Association since 2000 and also trains the wrestlers of IK Örgryte . He also makes his living as a businessman.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Pa = paper weight, Fl = fly weight, Ba = bantam weight, Fe = feather weight, at that time up to 48 kg, 52 kg, 57 kg and 62 kg body weight)

• 1974, 5th place , European Junior Championships in Haparanda , GR, Pa, behind Antonio Caltabiano , Italy , Panayot Kirow , Bulgaria , Ashot Aslonjan, USSR a . Antonin Jelinek, CSSR ;

• 1974, 1st place , Nordic Championship, GR, Pa, ahead of Hirvonen, Finland a . Stöwe, Norway ;

• 1975, 2nd place , Klippan tournament, GR, Fl, behind Angelow, Bulgaria a. before Navaala, Sweden a . Bujak, Poland ;

• 1975, 2nd place , tournament in Västerås , GR, Fl, behind Heinz Schmidt , GDR a . before Gerry Svensson , Sweden;

• 1975, 4th place , Junior World Championships in Haskowo , GR, Fl, behind Ashot Aslonjan, Horniceanu, Romania and, Antonio Caltabiano, in front of Borisow, Bulgaria and. Haralambos Holidis , Greece ;

• 1976, 6th place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg , GR, Fl, behind Nicu Gângă , Romania, Bekirow, USSR, Rolf Krauss , FRG, Valeri Arutjunow, USSR a. Paul Schneider, FRG;

• 1977, 2nd place , Klippan tournament, GR, Ba, behind Vladimir Pogudin , USSR a. before Fritz Huber , FRG;

• 1977, 8th place , EM in Bursa , GR, Ba, with a victory over Daniel Fröschl, Austria a . Losses against Pertti Ukkola , Finland a. Joszef Döncecz , Hungary ;

• 1977, 4th place , Junior World Championships in Las Vegas , GR, Ba, behind Wiktor Piwowarow, USSR, Piotr Michalik , Poland a. Pasquale Passarelli , FRG, before Tschagunow, Bulgaria;

• 1977, 2nd place , tournament in Helsinki , GR, Ba, behind Pasquale Passarelli u. in front of Jukka Rauhala, Finland;

• 1978, 3rd place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg, GR, Ba, behind Witali Konstantinow , USSR a. Mihai Boțilă , Romania, in front of Piotr Michalik u. Pasquale Passarelli ;

• 1978, 12th place , EM in Oslo , GR, Ba, with a victory over van Leemputt, Belgium a . Defeats against Asen Milew, Bulgaria a. Josef Krysta, CSSR;

• 1978, 2nd place , European Junior Championship in Oulu , GR, Ba, behind Julien Mewis , Belgium a. before Michael Vejsada, CSSR, Georgi Donew, Bulgaria a. Antonio Jannaccone, FRG;

• 1978, 7th place , World Cup in Mexico City , GR, Ba, with victories over Asen Milew u. Danilo Perez, Guatemala a . Defeats against Mihai Boțilă u. Ivan Frgić , Yugoslavia ;

• 1979 , 1st place, Klippan tournament, GR, Ba, ahead of Borislaw, Bulgaria, Schamil Serikow , USSR, Brekke, Norway a. Adam Kierpacz , Poland;

• 1979, 12th place , EM in Bucharest , GR, Ba, after defeats against Schamil Serikow a. Frans Jansen, Netherlands ;

• 1979, 9th place , World Championships in San Diego , GR, Ba, with victories over Dan Cummings, Australia a . Leonel Perez, Cuba a . Defeats against Haralambos Holidis u. Antonio Caltabiano ;

• 1980, 4th place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg, GR, Ba, behind Mihai Boțilă , Wladislaw Pakuszewski, Poland, Witali Konstantinow u. before Julien Mewis u. Pasquale Passarelli ;

• 1980, 2nd place , EM in Prievidza , GR, Ba, with victories over Mihai Boțilă, Wladislaw Pakuszewski, Michel Mercader, France , Árpád Sipos , Hungary a. Pasquale Passarelli et al. a loss to Vitaly Konstantinov;

• 1980, bronze medal , OS in Moscow , GR, Ba, with victories over Leonel Perez, Herbert Nigsch, Austria a. Georgi Donew, Bulgaria a. Defeats against Schamil Serikow u. Józef Lipień , Poland;

• 1980, 2nd place , World Cup un Trelleborg , GR, Ba, behind Wiktor Piwowarow, USSR a. before Yoshihiro Ono, Japan a . Robert Hermann, USA ;

• 1981, 2nd place , Klippan tournament, GR, Ba, behind Bagradjan, USSR a. before Josef Krysta , CSSR;

• 1981, 1st place , tournament in Västerås , GR, Ba, ahead of Asen Milew, Bulgaria, Hartmut Kohlhaas, GDR, Wachtang Blagidse , USSR u. Rolf Krauss ;

• 1981, 2nd place , EM in Gothenburg , GR, Ba, with victories over Ronny Sidge, Norway, Josef Krysta, Hartmut Kohlhaas u. Árpád Sipos u. a loss to Pasquale Passarelli ;

• 1981, 5th place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg, GR, Ba, behind Piotr Michalik , Poland, Schamil Serikow, Rolf Krauss u. Pasquale Passarelli , before Dieter Schwind , FRG;

• 1981, 7th place , World Championships in Oslo , GR, Ba, with victories over Michel Mercader a. Bjarne Nielsen, Denmark a . Defeats against Pasquale Passarelli u. Ilpo Seppälä , Finland;

• 1982, 5th place , World Championships in Katowice , GR, Ba, behind Piotr Michalik , Nicolae Zamfir , Romania, Wassili Fomin , USSR a. Sumer Karadag, Turkey, in front of Haralambos Holidis;

• 1984, 4th place , EM in Jönköping , GR, Ba, with victories over Pasquale Passarelli , Ilop Seppelä u. Antonio Caltbiano et al. Defeats against Frank Wohlgemuth , GDR a. Petar Balow , Bulgaria;

• 1984, 6th place , OS in Los Angeles , GR, Ba, with victories over Antonio Caltabiano, Ilpo Seppelä u. Ronny Sidge et al. Losses against Haralambos Holidis , Masaki Eto , Japan a. Frank Famiano, USA;

• 1985, 3rd place , tournament in Västerås, GR, Ba, behind Ronny Sidge u. Janos Kiss, Hungary, ahead of Pierre Dikonda, Sweden;

• 1985, 3rd place , EM in Leipzig , GR, Ba, behind Oganes Arutjunjan , USSR a. Nicolae Zamfir et al. in front of Mieczyslaw Tracz, Poland, Heiko Röll , DDR a. András Sike , Hungary;

• 1985, 2nd place , World Cup in Lund , GR, Ba, behind Timerzjan Kalumulin, USSR a. before Amadoris Gonzalez, Cuba a . Robert Hermann, USA;

• 1986, 2nd place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Freiburg im Breisgau , GR, Fe, behind Gheorghe Savu , Romania a. before Musajew, USSR, Reiner Kunzmann, FRG, Yeats, Canada a. Thomas Härtle , FRG;

• 1986, 2nd place , EM in Athens , GR, Fe, behind Árpád Sipos u. before Hugo Dietsche , Switzerland , Alexander Litwinow, USSR, Nencho Nentschew, Bulgaria a. Hussein Demirtas, Turkey ;

• 1987, 13th place , World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand , GR, Fe, winner: Schiwko Wangelow Atanassow , Bulgaria ahead of Kamandar Majidow , USSR a. Shigeki Nishiguchi , Japan;

• 1988, 4th place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg, GR, Ba, behind Rıfat Yıldız , FRG, András Sike u. Aghassi Manukjan , USSR, before Peter Behl , FRG a. Maik Bitterling, GDR

swell

• Athletics magazine , numbers: 5/74, 6/74, 3/75, 6/75, 6/76
• Trade journal Der Ringer , 3/77, 6/7/77, 4/78, 5/78, 9/78, 2/80, 3/80, 5/80, 8/80, 2/81, 4/81, 9/81, 9/82, 5/84, 9/84, 3/85, 5/85, 5/86, 7/87, 5/88
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

• Profile of Benni Ljungbeck at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Benni Ljungbeck in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )