György Gurics

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György Gurics [ ˈɟørɟ ˈɡuritʃ ] (born January 27, 1929 in Dunapentele ; † September 10, 2013 ) was a Hungarian wrestler and bronze medalist at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki .

Career

György Gurics started wrestling as a teenager in his hometown. In 1946 he went to Budapest and became a member of TE Budapest. In 1950 he moved to Honvéd Budapest . The military member developed under the leadership of the trainers Lajos Keresztes and Mihály Matura to an excellent wrestler in both styles. In 1951 he was first Hungarian champion and nominated for the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki. There he fought in the middleweight, free style, and won the bronze medal with three wins.

This outstanding international debut was followed in 1954 with a 6th place at the World Championships in Tokyo in the Middleweight, Free Style, a slight disappointment. In 1955 he competed for the first time in a world championship in the Greco-Roman style in Karlsruhe , where he was runner-up with five wins. Only the sovereign Georgian Giwi Kartosia , who started for the Soviet Union , was able to defeat him.

At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 , which took place shortly after the Hungarian uprising, Gurics finished 5th after two wins and one more loss to Kartosia in the Greco-Roman middleweight division.

In 1957 world championships in free style were on the agenda. Gurics started in the light heavyweight division for the first time at the World Championships in Istanbul . But he did not succeed in placing himself in the front field. In 1958 he wrestled again Greco-Roman at the world championship in his native Budapest . In the light heavyweight division he got five wins before he lost the final against the Soviet athlete Rostom Abashidze . At the 1959 World Cup in Tehran , Gurics was eliminated after the third round.

At the 1960 Olympic Games, Gurics in the Greco-Roman style had great bad luck when, after he had trained in the middleweight division, he had to retire due to an injury after a victory in the first round over the Belgian Albert Michiels. Restored, he started in the free style in the light heavyweight division and came in 8th after two wins and after defeats against Wiking Palm from Sweden and Gholam Reza Takhti from Iran .

But Gurics did not give up after these disappointments and landed at the World Cup in Yokohama in 1961 by winning the world title in light heavyweight, Greco-Roman style, the greatest success of his career. After a 6th place at the World Championships in Toledo / USA in the Greco-Roman style, middleweight, he won another bronze medal at the 1963 World Championships in Helsingborg . Then he ended his international wrestling career.

György Gurics, together with the exceptional German wrestler Wilfried Dietrich, was one of the last all-rounders on the mat, who was very successful in both styles.

The results of the international championships and some of the other tournaments in which he participated can be found in the following section.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greek-Roman style, F = freestyle, Mi = middle weight, up to 1961 up to 79 kg, from 1962 up to 87 kg body weight, Hs = light heavyweight, up to 1961 up to 87 kg, from 1962 up to 97 kg body weight)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary at the Hungarian Wrestling Association

swell

  • Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976
  • Athletics magazine from 1951 to 1963
  • Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Gurics, György
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Dunapentele
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 2013