Csaba Hegedűs

Csaba Hegedűs (1974)

Csaba Hegedűs [ ˈtʃɒbɒ ˈhɛɡɛdyːʃ ] (born September 6, 1948 in Sárvár ) is a former Hungarian wrestler .

Career

Csaba Hegedűs started wrestling in 1956. He comes from a sporty family and initially did athletics , fencing and basketball in addition to wrestling . In 1967 he was the first Hungarian junior champion in freestyle wrestling and moved to the sports club Vasas Budapest . He was trained by József Füzessy and Ferdinand Müller, among others.

In international competitions Csaba Hegedűs first appeared on the wrestling mat at the 1971 World Championships in Sofia . He had meanwhile switched to the Greco-Roman style. In Sofia he immediately won the middleweight world title in a sovereign style. He recorded eight premature victories in the presence of the entire assembled world elite, including the defending champion Anatoly Nasarenko from the Soviet Union . Hegedűs surprised his opponents with sophisticated technique, explosiveness and excellent endurance. He was also voted the best wrestler in the entire world championship.

In a convincing style, Csaba Hegedűs also became Olympic champion in Munich in 1972 , although some of his opponents had adjusted better to him, so that in his five victories, which were necessary for an Olympic victory, at least four opponents were only defeated on points against Hegedűs. On his toughest opponent Anatoli Nasarenko, whom he surely beat on points, he met in the first round.

In the spring of 1973 Hegedűs had a serious traffic accident, which he survived with serious injuries. Recovery took nearly two years, and he wasn't able to compete again until 1975. However, he lost at the World Championships in Minsk in 1975 against Anatoli Nasarenko and also against Adam Ostrowski from Poland and only finished 4th.

He got off to a promising start to the 1976 Olympic year, as he became European champion in Leningrad despite a narrow point defeat against Ivan Kolew from Bulgaria . At the Olympic Games in Montreal , however, Hegedűs experienced a disappointment. Weakened by “weight-making” for the middleweight division, he lost his two fights against Dan Chandler from the USA and against Miroslav Janota from Czechoslovakia on points and was eliminated after the 2nd round.

In 1977 Hegedűs therefore switched to the light heavyweight division and had an excellent start in this weight class at the European Championships in Bursa . He won the European Championship there with ease. At the World Championships of the same year in Gothenburg he lost to Stojan Nikolow from Bulgaria and Frank Andersson from Sweden, which he had defeated at the European Championships in the spring, and was eliminated without a medal.

After this world championship, Csaba Hegedűs resigned from active wrestling. He completed a law degree and obtained a doctorate in law. jur. From 1979 he was the head coach of the Hungarian national team of wrestlers in the Greco-Roman style. The 10 years in which he held this post were probably the most successful in the history of the Hungarian Wrestling Federation. Names like Ferenc Kocsis , Norbert Növényi , Lajos Rácz , István Tóth and István Kovács are evidence of this.

In 1989 Hegedűs became Vice President and shortly afterwards President of the Hungarian Wrestling Association. He has been a bureau member of the international wrestling association (FILA) for many years. For many years he was also a member of the Hungarian Olympic Committee.

In September 2005 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, then up to 82 kg or 90 kg body weight)

• 1971, 1st place , World Cup in Sofia , GR, Wed, with victories over Mohammadhosain Dschamal, Iran , Adam Ostrowski , Poland , Kenjirō Hiraki , Japan , Marcel Vlad , Romania , Jay Robinson , USA , Ali Yağmur , Turkey , Kiril Dimitrow , Bulgaria and Anatoly Nasarenko , Soviet Union ;
• 1972, gold medal , OS in Munich , GR, Wed, with victories over Anatoli Nasarenko, Ostrowski, Jan Kärström , Sweden , Dimitrov and Milan Nenadić , Yugoslavia ;
• 1975, 4th place , World Cup in Minsk , with victories over Leif Andersson , Sweden, Keijo Manni , Finland and Miroslav Janota , Czechoslovakia and defeats against Anatoli Nasarenko and Ostrowski;
• 1976, 1st place , EM in Leningrad , GR, Wed, with victories over Jimmy Martinetti, Switzerland , Vladimir Tscheboksarow , Soviet Union, Apostolos Messiakaris, Greece and Ion Enache , Romania and a defeat against Iwan Kolew , Bulgaria;
• 1976, 12th place , OS in Montreal , GR, Wed, after losing to Dan Chandler , USA and Miroslav Janota;
• 1977, 1st place , EM in Bursa , GR, Hs, with victories over Petre Dicu , Romania, Stojan Nikolow , Bulgaria, Frank Andersson , Sweden, Herbert Götze, GDR and Arapad Minosjan, Soviet Union;
• 1977, 4th place , World Cup in Gothenburg , GR, Hs, with victories over Georgios Pozidis, Greece, Götze and Pedro Pawlidis , BR Germany and defeats against Nikolow and Frank Andersson

Hungarian championships

Csaba Hegedűs was Hungarian Greco-Roman style middleweight champion in 1971, 1972 and 1976 and light heavyweight in 1978; in the free style he became Hungarian middleweight champion in 1971.

swell

• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976
• International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science Leipzig
• various issues of the specialist magazine " Athletik " from 1970 to 1976 and the specialist magazine "Der Ringer" 1977

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TheMat.com from September 13, 2005 ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 8, 2010 (English) 

Web links

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