Dan Karabín

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Dan karabin (* 18th February 1955 in Nitra ) is a former Czechoslovak wrestler and winner of the bronze medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow in free style welterweight.

Career

Dan Karabín comes from Nitra , Slovakia , where he started wrestling as a teenager . After his great talent was recognized, he was delegated to the police sports club Rudá Hvězda Prague , where he developed into one of the best Czechoslovak freestyle wrestlers after the Second World War . Even as a junior he was part of the world elite, as his victory at the 1974 European Junior Championship in Haparanda in welterweight and his 2nd place at the 1975 World Junior Championship in Chaskowo , also in welterweight, prove.

Dan also made the transition to the seniors seamlessly, because at the European Championships in 1975 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein he immediately took second place. He was only inferior to the Soviet all-rounder Pawel Pinigin and even defeated the German freestyle artist Adolf Seger in a second round match . He was even more successful at the 1976 European Championships in Leningrad , where he defeated the two German starters Alexander Senn from the FRG and Fred Hempel from the GDR and was European champion despite a defeat against Marin Pârcălabu from Romania . Dan then had bad luck at the Olympic Games in Montreal that year , because after two victories he injured himself in the third fight against the Yugoslav Kiro Ristov and had to give up.

Dan Karabín was not very successful in the years 1977 to 1979, in which he did not win a medal. However, Dan was very susceptible to injuries in those years and could not finish some tournaments or championships due to injury.

In 1980, things went better for Dan again. First he was 4th winner at the 1980 European Championships in Prievidza , although he had to give up again after the 4th round due to injury and then he won, now recovered, the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Moscow , where he benefited from the high Favorite Pawel Pinigin, against whom he had lost, failed to Valentin Rajchev from Bulgaria .

In the years 1982 to 1984 Dan achieved very good placements at the world and European championships and even became vice world champion in Edmonton in 1982 . In those years he also crossed the blades with the German master Martin Knosp a few times, but was always defeated.

Since he could not take part in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles because of the boycott of these games by the Eastern Bloc countries, he ended his international wrestling career after the 1984 European Championship.

Today he works as a trainer in Slovakia.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, We = welterweight), then up to 74 kg body weight

swell

  • 1) Various issues of the specialist magazines "Athletik" from 1974 and 1975 and "Der Ringer" from 1976 to 1984,
  • 2) International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Karabín, Dan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Nitra