Ferenc Tóth

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Ferenc Tóth (born February 8, 1909 in Szeged , † February 26, 1981 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian wrestler . He won a bronze medal in the Greco-Roman style featherweight at the 1948 London Olympics . He was also the European featherweight champion in free style in 1933 and 1937 .

Career

Ferenc Tóth began wrestling as a teenager in Debrecen . He worked in both styles, Greco-Roman and free style. In 1930 he joined the police and moved to Budapest , where he started for Ujpest Torna Egylet (UTE) Budapest . In 1931 he was the first Hungarian champion in the Greco-Roman style in featherweight. In 1932 he won his first Hungarian free style championship in the same weight class. In total, he won the Hungarian featherweight and lightweight championship fourteen times in both styles by 1947. In 1933 he was also Hungarian team champion in wrestling with UTE Budapest.

Ferenc Tóth's international career began in 1933. He won the featherweight title that year at the European Free Style Championships in Paris . He only needed two wins because this championship was weak. In the decisive fight he defeated Jean Vordermann from Switzerland.

In 1934 Ferenc Tóth competed in both styles at the European Championships. In the Greco-Roman style he was runner-up European featherweight champion in Rome , where he u. a. defeated the German silver medal winner of the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles Wolfgang Ehrl . In the final he lost to the exceptional Finnish wrestler Kustaa Pihlajamäki . In free style in Stockholm he won the bronze medal in featherweight. Here he was defeated by the German Hans Wittwer and again Kustaa Pihlajamäki.

In 1935 he was again runner-up European champion at the European featherweight championships in Brussels . He defeated such strong wrestlers as Gösta Frändfors from Sweden , Jean Vordermann and Eduard Sperling , the three-time European champion in the Greco-Roman style from Germany. But again he couldn't get past Kustaa Pihlajamäki. He was clearly subject to this on points.

At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin , Ferenc Tóth failed after two victories against Francis Millard from the United States and Kustaa Pihlajamäki. He didn't win a medal and had to be satisfied with 5th place.

In 1937, Ferenc Tóth finally won a victory over Kustaa Pihaljamäki at the European featherweight championship in Munich . Since he also won his other fights, he became European champion for the second time. In 1939 he took part in an international championship for the last time before the Second World War . In Oslo he took it in the Greco-Roman. Style after defeats against Ferdinand Schmitz from Germany and Kustaa Pihlajamäki the 3rd place.

Although he was well over 30 years old, Ferenc Tóoth continued his wrestling career after the Second World War. At the European Championships in Stockholm in 1946 in free style, he just missed a medal with 4th place in the featherweight division. He lost against Olle Anderberg from Sweden and Gazanfer Bilge from Turkey. Two young wrestlers who were at the beginning of their careers. At the European Championships in Prague in 1947 , Ferenc Toth won the silver medal in the Greco-Roman style. He was only beaten by Olle Anderberg.

At the end of his career, Ferenc Tóth started again at the Olympic Games at the age of 39. In London he succeeded in winning a medal, which he had not been able to do in Berlin in 1936 and in 1940 and 1944, where the Olympic Games could not take place due to the war. In the Greco-Roman style in featherweight he fought his way to the finals with four wins, in which he failed again at Olle Anderberg . Olympic champion was Mehmet Oktav from Turkey. In free style, actually his favorite style, he just missed another medal with 4th place. Gazanfer Bilge and Ivar Sjölin from Sweden defeated him and relegated him to 4th place. Winning the bronze medal in Greco-Roman. But style was a nice end to his career.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championship, F = free style, GR = Greco-Roman style, Fe = featherweight, Le = lightweight, back then up to 61/62 kg or 66/67 kg body weight)

Hungarian championships

Ferenc Tóth won the following titles:

  • F: 1932, Fe, 1935, Fe, 1937, Fe, 1939, Le, 1940, Fe, 1941, Fe, 1942, Fe, 1943, Le, 1946, Fe u. 1947 Fe
  • GR: 1931, Fe, 1938, Fe, 1941, Fe u. 1947, Fe
  • He became team champion with UTE Budapest in 1933

swell

  • Athletics magazine from 1931 to 1936 a. 1948 to 1949,
  • Kraftsport trade journal from 1937 to 1939,
  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships , FILA, 1976,

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personal data
SURNAME Tóth, Ferenc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Szeged
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1981
Place of death Budapest