Ferenc Kiss (wrestler)

Ferenc Kiss (born January 5, 1942 in Nick , Vas County ; † September 8, 2015 ) was a Hungarian wrestler and bronze medalist at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich in the Greco-Roman style heavyweight division.

Career

Ferenc Kiss started wrestling in Budapest in 1954 . The club he started for was “Ganz-Mávag” Budapest. Ferenc specialized in the Greco-Roman style. In 1965 he was the first Hungarian light heavyweight champion. A year earlier, he had made his debut at international championships at the Olympic Games in Tokyo with a good 6th place in the light heavyweight division.

At the World Championships in Tampere in 1965 , Ferenc showed great progress, as he remained undefeated in five fights and was runner-up behind the Soviet Valeri Anissimow .

At the 1966 World Cup in Toledo / USA , Ferenc just missed a medal with 4th place in the light heavyweight division. A defeat against Nicolae Martinescu from Romania , with whom he was to have many hot duels in the next few years, prevented him from intervening in the medal fight.

At the European Championships in Minsk in 1967 , Ferenc then won his first title. With six wins, he became the sovereign European champion . Among the wrestlers he defeated were the world class athletes Nicolae Martinescu, Vasily Merkulow from the Soviet Union and Per Svensson from Sweden . At the world championship of the same year in Bucharest, Ferenc was defeated by the new Soviet star Nikolai Jakowenko and just missed a medal.

In 1968 Ferenc managed to win the title again at the European Championships in Västerås . All the more disappointing for him was the performance at the Olympic Games in Mexico City that same year . He lost to his old competitor Nicolae Martinescu and, surprisingly, also against Jürgen Klinge from Leipzig and only came in 8th place in the light heavyweight division.

Due to a reallocation of the weight classes by the international wrestling association (FILA), Ferenc Kiss started in the heavyweight division in 1969. In 1969, he was, however, not participate in any international championships because of the Hungarian Association for the European Championships in Modena sent no wrestler because Italy the flying of the GDR flag was prohibited and the socialist states why this event boycotted and Hungary to the World Cup in Argentina's Mar del Plata from No wrestlers posted for cost reasons.

The year 1970 was again very successful for Ferenc. First he was in the spring in Berlin without defeat, but with three draws, vice European champion, where he again failed to defeat Jürgen Klinge in a draw, and then he also took second place at the World Cup in Edmonton in autumn . Even at this event he was undefeated. However, three undecided fights against Stefan Petrow from Bulgaria , Per Svensson and Nicolae Martinescu prevented his victory.

After a somewhat weaker year in 1971, Ferenc managed to win an Olympic medal when he took part in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich for the third time . After three wins in the fight between Fernec Kiss and Lorenz Hecher from Germany, both wrestlers were disqualified due to passivity and each was charged with 4 missing points. This led to the elimination of both wrestlers, which was enough for Ferenc to win the bronze medal. This disqualification was particularly tough for Ferenc, as Nicolae Martinescu, whom he had already defeated, became Olympic champion .

After the 1973 World Championships in Tehran , where Ferenc once again took a good 4th place, he resigned from active competition wrestling. He completed a coaching education and was first in his club "Ganz-Mávag" and then with the Budapesti VSC coach, before he was coach of the Hungarian national team of wrestlers in the Greco-Roman style in 1990.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Hs = light heavyweight, S = heavyweight, back then up to 97 kg or 100 kg body weight)

• 1964, 6th place , OS in Tokyo , GR, Hs, with victories over Petar Cucic, Yugoslavia and Maruti Mane, India , a draw against Per Svensson , Sweden and a defeat against Rostom Abashidze , Soviet Union ;
• 1965, 2nd place , World Cup in Tampere , GR, Hs, with victories over Tore Hem , Norway , Kenjirō Hiraki , Japan and Gerald Conine , USA and a draw against Bojan Radew , Bulgaria and Czesław Kwieciński , Poland ;
• 1966, 6th place , EM in Essen , GR, Hs, with a victory over Gerhard Du Prie, Netherlands and a draw against Gürbüz Lü, Turkey , Alexei Karmazkich , Soviet Union and Nicolae Martinescu , Romania ;
• 1966, 4th place , World Cup in Toledo / USA , GR, Hs, with victories over Aimo Mypenpää , Finland and Peter Jutzeler, Switzerland , a draw against Valeri Anissimow , Soviet Union and Per Svensson and a defeat against Nicolae Martinescu;
• 1967, 1st place , EM in Minsk , GR, Hs, with victories over Peter Wismer, GDR , Nicolae Martinescu, Stefan Petrow , Bulgaria, Heinz Kiehl , FRG, Wassili Merkulow , Soviet Union and Per Svensson;
• 1967, 4th place , World Cup in Bucharest , GR, Hs, with victories over Hattori, Japan and Czeslaw Kwieciński, a draw against Josip Čorak , Yugoslavia and a defeat against Nikolai Jakowenko , Soviet Union;
• 1968, 1st place , EM in Västerås , GR, Hs, with victories over Ariel De Diego, Spain , Jan Amnaes, Denmark , Mehmet Necdet Ucar, Turkey and Bojan Radew, Bulgaria and a draw against Nicolae Martinescu;
• 1968, 8th place , OS in Mexico City , GR, Hs, with a victory over Heinz Kiehl and defeats against Nicolae Martinescu and Jürgen Klinge , GDR;
• 1970, 2nd place , EM in Berlin , GR, S, with victories over Karl-Heinz Gerdsmeier , FRG, Gerhard Du Prie and Marin Kolew , Bulgaria and a draw against Jürgen Klinge, Per Svensson and Wassili Merkulow;
• 1970, 2nd place , World Championships in Edmonton , GR, S, with victories over Shizuo Yada, Japan and Wacław Orłowski , Poland and a draw against Stefan Petrow, Per Svensson and Nicolae Martinescu;
• 1971, 9th place , EM in Sofia , GR, S, with a victory over Isao Yamaguchi, Japan, a draw against Wassili Merkulow and defeats against Nicolae Martinescu and Per Svensson;
• 1972, bronze medal , OS in Munich , GR, S, with victories over Andrzej Skrzydlewski , Poland, Fredi Albrecht , GDR and Nicolae Martinescu; in the fight between Kiss and Lorenz Hecher from Germany, both wrestlers were disqualified for being passive. Both wrestlers were charged with 4 missing points and were eliminated.
• 1973, 4th place , World Championship in Tehran , GR, S, with victories over James Dushen, USA and Yasunari Akiyama, Japan and defeats against Nikolai Balboschin , Soviet Union and Kamen Lozanow Goranow , Bulgaria

Hungarian championships

Ferenc Kiss was Hungarian light heavyweight champion in 1965 and 1966 and heavyweight championship in 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972.

swell

• various issues of the specialist magazine Athletik from 1964 to 1973,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976

Web links

• Ferenc Kiss in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Gyász: elhunyt Kiss Ferenc olimpiai bronzérmes birkózó