Ferenc Seres

Ferenc Seres (born November 3, 1945 in Ujkecske , Tiszakécske , Bács-Kiskun County ) is a former Hungarian wrestler . He won a Greco-Roman style bronze medal in paper weight at the 1980 Olympic Games .

Career

Ferenc Seres, who belonged to the sports club Haladas Szondy Sportegyesület (SE) , owed the introduction of the weight class of paper weight by the International Wrestling Federation (FILA) in 1969 that at the age of 25 he still made the leap into the Hungarian and little later even made it into the international top class of wrestlers in his weight class. Until 1968 the army member wrestled in the flyweight, but achieved no results there. At a height of 1.53 meters, he had no particular problems during his entire career in creating the weight limit for the paper weight class, which was 48 kg body weight.

Ferenc Seres had his first success in paper weight in 1970 when he became the Hungarian champion in this weight class in free style. In 1971 he became the first Hungarian master in the Greco-Roman style and from then on only used this style.

In 1971 he started for the first time at an international championship, the World Championship in Sofia . He proved it with victories over Jaroszek from Poland a . Matsuda from Japan , a draw against Stefan Angelow from Bulgaria and a defeat against Günter Maas from the Federal Republic of Germany a good 6th place.

In the following years he started to 1976 regularly in the World and European Championships, winning the World Cup in 1973 in Tehran , at the European Championships 1975 in Ludwigshafen and at the European Championships in 1976 in Leningrad each a bronze medal . He achieved this at these championships u. a. Victories over Constantin Alexandru from Romania , Raimo Hirvonen from Finland , Dietmar Hinz from the GDR a. Stefan Angelow from Bulgaria .

At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , Ferenc Seres came after a victory over Bernd Drechsel from the GDR and defeats against Gheorghe Berceanu from Romania a. Stefan Angelow only came in 9th place. He performed even worse at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , where he lost to Alexei Shumakov from the USSR and Michael Farina from the United States and therefore only finished 13th.

After the Olympic Games in 1976, he ended his international wrestling career, but still wrestled on a national level. 1979 Ferenc Seres made a comeback attempt on the international wrestling mat, which also succeeded, although he was already 34 years old at the time. The best results at international championships, which he achieved from 1979, were a 4th place at the world championship of that year in San Diego , where he won over Alfredo Olvera from Mexico and Ju Jin-park from South Korea a . Losses against Constantin Alexandru and Alexei Schumakow , USSR narrowly missed a medal and winning the Olympic bronze medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow . He won there over Roman Kierpacz from Poland , Alfredo Alvera u. Reiji Haaparanta from Finland and lost to Saksylik Uschkempirow from the USSR and Constantin Alexandru.

Ferenc Seres continued his international career in 1981 and achieved 6th place at the 1981 European Championships in Gothenburg and at the 1981 World Championships in Oslo .

Ferenc Seres won the last Hungarian championship title in 1985 at the age of 40.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1970	2.	Intern. Tournament in Split	paper	behind Gheorghe Berceanu , Romania , before Nowicki, Poland
1971	2.	Mastery of the Warsaw Pact armies	paper	behind Schukow, USSR , in front of Winfrid Kaprol, GDR
1971	6th	World Cup in Sofia	paper	with victories over Jaroszek, Poland a. Matsuda, Japan , a tie against Stefan Angelow , Bulgaria a . one defeat against Günter Maas , Federal Republic of Germany
1972	5.	EM in Katowice	paper	with victories over Juan Luis Costales, Spain , Sotirios Ventas, Greece a . Bernard Szczepanski, Poland a. Defeats to Gheorghe Berceanu , Romania a. Stefan Angelow
1972	9.	OS in Munich	paper	with a victory over Bernd Drechsel , DDR a. Defeats to Gheorghe Berceanu u. Stefan Angelow
1973	5.	EM in Helsinki	paper	with victories over Kauko Naavala, Sweden a . Xhelil Cibaku, Albania a . Defeats against Pawel Christow , Bulgaria a. Gheorghe Berceanu
1973	3.	World Cup in Tehran	paper	with victories over Tseren Lhajav, Mongolia , Constantin Alexandru , Romania and Reimo Hirvonen , Finland and defeats against Stefan Angelow , Ryszard Swierad , Poland and Vladimir Subkow , USSR
1974	6th	EM in Madrid	paper	with a victory over Dietmar Hinz , GDR and defeats against Stefan Angelow and Constantin Alexandru
1974	5.	World Cup in Katowice	paper	with a win over Onishi Kozo, Japan , a tie against Karoly Kacsar, USA and losses against Haralambos Holidis , Greece and Vladimir Subkow
1975	3.	EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein	paper	with victories over Heinz Schmieden, FRG and Raimo Hirvonen and defeats against Pawel Christow , Alexei Schumakow , USSR and Constantin Alexandru
1975	6th	World Cup in Minsk	paper	with a victory over Alexander Zajaczkowski, Poland a. Losses against Salih Bora , Turkey and Gheorghe Berceanu
1976	3.	EM in Leningrad	paper	with victories over Dietmar Hinz and Stefan Angelow and defeats against Alexei Schumakow a . Constantin Alexandru
1976	13.	OS in Montreal	paper	after losing to Alexei Schumakow and Michael Farina, USA
1979	4th	World Cup in San Diego	paper	with victories over Alfredo Olvera, Mexico a . Ju Jin-park, South Korea and defeats to Constantin Alexandru and Alexei Shumakov
1980	6th	EM in Prievidza	paper	with victories over Jon Rønningen , Norway a . Vaclav Janota , Czechoslovakia a . Defeats against Saksylik Uschkempirow , USSR a. Totju Andonow , Bulgaria
1980	5.	Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg	paper	behind Constantin Alexandru, Bernd Scherer , FRG, Roman Kierpacz , Poland a. Kent Andersson , Sweden
1980	bronze	OS in Moscow	paper	with victories over Roman Kierpacz , Alfredo Olvera a. Reijo Haaparanta , Finland a. Defeats against Saksylik Uschkempirow u. Constantin Alexandru
1981	3.	Tournament in Västerås	paper	behind Ilgam Umayev , USSR a. Jon Rønningen
1981	6th	EM in Gothenburg	paper	with victories over Vaclav Janota u. Reijo Haaparanta u. Defeats against Wieslaw Kucinski , Poland a. Viktor Savchuk , USSR
1981	6th	World Cup in Oslo	paper	with victories over Lars Rønningen u. Fumikazu Sasaki , Japan et al. Defeats against Salih Bora u. Totju Andonov
1982	3.	World Cup in Budapest	paper	behind Csaba Vadász , Hungary a. Saksylik Uschkempirow , in front of TJ Jones, USA a. Yasuichi Ebina, Japan
1984	4th	Grand Prix of the FRG in Freiburg	paper	behind Timor Taimuras Kasaraschwili , USSR, Markus Scherer , FRG a. N. Onica, Romania

Hungarian championships

Ferenc Seres won the Hungarian free style championship in 1970 and in 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1979 and 1985 in Greco-Roman style, always in paper weight.

Note: all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, paper weight, at that time up to 48 kg body weight

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• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976
• Trade magazines Athletik and Der Ringer,
• Website "www.webspawner.com"

Web links

• Profile of Ferenc Seres at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Ferenc Seres in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait of Ferenc Seres (Hungarian)