Daniel Ligeti

Dániel Ligeti (born July 31, 1989 ) is a Hungarian wrestler . He won a bronze medal in free style heavyweight at the 2011 European Championships .

Career

Dániel Ligeti started wrestling as a teenager in 1994. He belongs to the sports club Haladas Vasuta SE Szombathely , where István Veréb is his trainer, and only wrestles in free style. He is a sports student and started at a height of 1.88 meters first in the light heavyweight (weight class up to 96 kg body weight) and since 2010 in the heavyweight (weight class up to 120 kg body weight). He is well known in German wrestling circles, because he has previously started for SV Untergriesbach and helped this club to move up to the 1st Bundesliga. From the 2011/12 season, however, he will compete for TuS Adelhausen .

Since 2006, Dániel Ligeti has regularly participated in the international junior championships. The greatest success he achieved was winning the European runner-up at the 2008 European Junior Championship in Košice , where he finished 2nd behind the Russian Juri Belonowski . Otherwise he had to record three fifth places as the best result at these championships, including a fifth place at the 2009 Junior World Championships in Ankara .

In the seniors he was already used at the European Championships 2008 in Tampere in the light heavyweight division, where he lost after two victories in the semifinals against Georgi Tibilow from Ukraine and in the fight for a bronze medal against the Turk Hakan Koc . At the international championships in 2009 he did not do so well. Both at the 2009 European Championships in Vilnius and at the 2009 World Championships in Herning / Denmark he was eliminated early and only finished 18th in both events.

At the beginning of 2010, Dániel Ligeti moved from light heavyweight to heavyweight. He became the Hungarian heavyweight champion that year and came 7th at the European championship this year in Baku after defeating Johannes Kessel from Germany and losing to Alexei Schemarov from Belarus . At the 2010 World Cup in Moscow , he was even more successful. After two victories he lost there against the Olympic champion and multiple world champion Biljal Machow from Russia and also lost the fight for a bronze medal against Levan Berianidze from Georgia , but the 5th place, which he took with it, is very respectable.

He then won his first medal at an international championship at the 2011 European Championships in Dortmund . There he defeated Chadschimurad Istapajew from Belgium , lost to Fatih Çakıroğlu from Turkey and then won a bronze medal with victories over Aleksander Chozianiwski, Ukraine and Nick Matuhin , Germany. At the 2011 World Cup in Istanbul , Dániel Ligeti lost against Jamaladdin Magomedow from Azerbaijan on points (0: 2 rounds, 5: 9 points). Since this did not reach the final, he was eliminated and only came in 17th place. The year 2011 came to a conciliatory end for him with a victory at the so-called FILA test tournament for the Olympic Games in London , where he won ahead of Edgaro Lopez from Puerto Rico , Deng Zhiwei, China and Taha Akgül, Turkey.

Dániel Ligeti was also successful again at the 2012 European Championships in Belgrade . He fought his way there with victories over Dawit Modsmanashvili , Georgia, Jose Cuba Vazquez, Spain and Dimitar Kumchev, Bulgaria up to the final, in which he lost against Taha Akgül on points. At the Olympic Games in London he lost his first fight against Alexei Shemarov. Since this did not reach the final, he was eliminated and only came in 12th place.

At the 2013 European Championships in Tbilisi, Dániel Ligeti again missed a medal in free style. He defeated there Robert Baran, Poland and Igor Fjodorow from Lithuania, but then lost to Taha Akgül and Jamaladdin Magomedow, which meant 5th place.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	style	Result
2006	9.	Junior European Championship (Cadets) in Istanbul	up to 85 kg body weight	FS	Winner Andrei Waliev, Russia ahead of Aleksander Derimenko, Ukraine
2007	5.	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Belgrade	Semi-difficult	FS	behind Valeri Andrizew, Ukraine, William Harth, Germany , Viktor Aliossezkin, Greece a . Jamaladdin Magomedov , Russia
2007	7th	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Beijing	Semi-difficult	FS	Winner: Valery Andrizew ahead of Alan Zasajew, Russia
2008	5.	EM in Tampere	Semi-difficult	FS	after victories over Norbert Bodor, Slovakia a . Marcel Mihei Stroja, Romania and defeats against Georgi Tibilow , Ukraine a. Hakan Koc , Turkey
2008	15th	Olympic qualification tournament in Martigny / Switzerland	Semi-difficult	FS	Winner: Chetag Gasjumow , Azerbaijan ahead of Nicolai Ceban , Republic of Moldova
2008	2.	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Košice	Semi-difficult	FS	behind Juri Belonowski , Russia, in front of Szymon Stasierski, Poland a . Grigori Chikovani, Georgia
2008	21st	Junior World Championships / (Juniors) in Istanbul	Semi-difficult	FS	after losing to Kameil Ghasemi, Iran
2009	18th	EM in Vilnius	Semi-difficult	FS	after defeats against Chetag Gasjumow a. Serhat Balci , Turkey
2009	5.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Tbilisi	Semi-difficult	FS	Winner: Jamaladdin Magomedow before Dibir Jalilow, Russia
2009	18th	World Cup in Herning / Denmark	Semi-difficult	FS	after a loss to Jakob Varner , USA
2010	7th	EM in Baku	Heavy	FS	after a victory over Johannes Kessel , Germany a. a loss to Alexei Shemarov , Belarus
2010	1.	German Grand Prix in Dortmund	Heavy	FS	before Arkadiusz Kordus, Poland a. Jesse Flores Ruiz, Mexico
2010	5.	World Cup in Moscow	Heavy	FS	after victory over Dimitrijs Mihailovs, Latvia , defeat against Biljal Machow , Russia, victory over Luis F. Vivenes Urbanesa, Venezuela a . Loss to Levan Berianidze , Georgia
2010	3.	Universities World Cup in Tunis	Heavy	FS	behind Juri Belonowski u. Evgeni Dziubak, Ukraine
2011	1.	World Cup in Makhachkala	Heavy	FS	in front of Murad Kuschchow, Ukraine, Georgi Skandelidze, Georgia a. Kurban Kurbanow , Uzbekistan
2011	3.	EM in Dortmund	Heavy	FS	after victory over Chadschimurad Istapajew, Belgium , defeat against Fatih Çakıroğlu , Turkey a. Victories against Aleksander Chazianiwski, Ukraine a. Nick Matuhin , Germany
2011	3.	Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid	Heavy	FS	behind Nick Matuhin and Fatih Kambur, Turkey
2011	3.	"Wacław-Ziółkowski" Memorial in Poznań	Heavy	FS	behind Fardin Masoumi Valadi , Iran and Alexei Schemarow , Belarus
2011	17th	World Cup in Istanbul	Heavy	FS	after losing to Jamaladdin Magomedov , Azerbaijan
2011	1.	FILA test tournament in London	Heavy	FS	before Edgardo Lopez, Puerto Rico , Deng Zhiwei, China and Taha Akgül , Turkey
2012	3.	Golden Grand Prix in Szombathely	Heavy	GR	behind Heiki Nabi , Estonia and İsmail Güzel , Turkey
2012	2.	EM in Belgrade	Heavy	FS	after victories over Dawit Modsmanashvili , Georgia, Jose Cuba Vazquez, Spain and Dimitar Kumchev , Bulgaria and a defeat against Taha Akgül, Turkey
2012	1.	Olympic qualification tournament in Sofia	Heavy	FS	before Taha Akgül, Rares Daniel Chintojan, Romania and Bartlomiej Bartnicki, Poland
2012	2.	Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid	Heavy	FS	behind Komeil Ghasemi , Iran, in front of Bakhtiyar Sultanbek, Kazakhstan and Alexei Schemarow , Belarus
2012	12.	OS in London	Heavy	FS	after a loss to Alexei Shemarov
2012	7th	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	Heavy	FS	Winner: Giorgi Sakandelidze, Georgia ahead of Eduard Basrow, Russia
2012	3.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	Heavy	GR	Winner: Yusup Nunajew, Hungary, ahead of Iossif Tschugaschwili , Belarus
2013	3.	Intern. Tournament in Kiev	Heavy	F.	behind Alen Sassejew and Alexander Khozianiwski, both Ukraine, together with Dawit Modsmanashvili
2013	5.	EM in Tbilisi	Heavy	F.	after victories over Robert Baran, Poland and Igor Fjodorow, Lithuania and defeats against Alen Sassejew and Jamaladdin Magomedow
2013	3.	"Ali-Aliyev" Memorial in Makhachkala	Heavy	F.	behind Aslan Dzebischew, Azerbaijan and Alen Zassejew, together with Kurban Kurbanow, Uzbekistan

Hungarian championships

(as far as known)

year	space	Weight class	Result
2010	1.	Heavy	before Richard Csercsis, Juszup Numajew a. Viktor Vancso
2011	1.	Heavy	before Richard Csercsis, Peter Fodor a. Peter Kalman

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Lightweight, weight class up to 96 gk, heavyweight, weight class up to 120 kg body weight
• FS = free style, GR = Greco-Roman style

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
• Website of the Hungarian Wrestling Association
• "Wrestling in Germany" website
• Website "birkozoszov.digitline.hu"

Web links

• Profile of Dániel Ligeti at the Institute for Applied Training Science