Gyula Bóbis

Gyula Bóbis (born October 7, 1909 in Kecskemét , † January 24, 1972 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian wrestler . He was Olympic champion in London in 1948 .

Career

Gyula Bóbis grew up in Kecskemét and started there in 1919 at the sports club Kecskeméti TE with the wrestling . In the course of time he developed into an outstanding semi-heavyweight or heavyweight, who mastered both styles, Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling , excellently. In 1934 he was the first Hungarian light heavyweight champion in the Greco-Roman style.

Gyula made his first appearance at an international championship at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin in the Greco-Roman style in the light heavyweight division. He was already 27 years old and still had to learn the hard way, because he lost both fights he played and ended up in 10th place. Also at the European Championships in Paris in 1937 in the Greco-Roman style, Gyula, this time wrestling in the heavyweight division, lost his two fights and only came 8th out of 9 participants. At the European championship of the same year in Munich in free style, he landed his first success at an international championship with third place and winning the bronze medal.

Gyula also won a bronze medal at the European Championships in Oslo in 1939 , after the Hungarian team did not start at the European Championships in Tallinn in 1938 . In Oslo he managed to win a points over the 1938 European champion Johannes Kotkas from Estonia . But since he was subsequently defeated against John Nyman from Sweden and against Mehmet Çoban from Turkey , Kotkas was still European champion.

After this championship, Gyula, like all wrestlers in Europe, had a break of 7 years until he could start again in an international championship. He was back in 1946 at the first international championship after World War II in Stockholm and came in 4th place in the light heavyweight division in free style.

At the Olympic Games in London in 1948 , Gyula celebrated the greatest success of his career at the age of 39. With four victories he won the gold medal and also defeated the Swedish favorite Bertil Antonsson .

After that, Gyula did not retire at all, but started two years later at the World Cup in Stockholm in 1950 and became vice world champion there. In the "Den of the Lion" he suffered a point defeat from Bertil Antonsson.

International success

Here are the results of the international championships in which Gyula Bóbis participated:

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style, Hs = light heavyweight, S = heavyweight, back then up to 87 kg or over 87 kg body weight)

• 1934, 2nd place , intern. Czech championship in Prostějov , GR, Hs, behind Hubert Prokop u. in front of Pelikan, bde. Czechoslovakia ;
• 1936, 10th place , OS in Berlin , GR, Hs, after defeats against Mustafa Çakmak , Turkey and Edvīns Bietags , Latvia ;
• 1937, 8th place , EM in Paris , GR, S, after defeats against Kristjan Palusalu , Estonia and Josef Klapuch , Czechoslovakia ;
• 1937, 3rd place , EM in Munich , F, S, with a victory over Nils Åkerlindh , Sweden and defeats against Willy Lardon , Switzerland and Kurt Hornfischer , Germany ;
• 1939, 3rd place , EM in Oslo , GR, S, with victories over Hjalmar Nyström , Finland and Johannes Kotkas , Estonia and defeats against John Nyman , Sweden and Mehmet Çoban , Turkey;
• 1946, 4th place , EM in Stockholm , F, Hs, with victories over Henry Buri, Belgium , Paavo Sepponen, Finland and defeats against Bengt Fahlkvist , Sweden, Muharrem Candaş , Turkey and Fritz Stöckli , Switzerland;
• 1948, gold medal , OS in London , F, S, with victories over James Armstrong, Australia , Willy Lardon, Josef Růžička , Czechoslovakia and Bertil Antonsson , Sweden;
• 1950, 2nd place , World Championship in Stockholm , GR, S, with victories over Pauli Riihimäki , Finland and Olaf Knutsen, Norway and a defeat against Bertil Antonsson

Hungarian championships

Gyula Bóbis became Hungarian light heavyweight champion in the Greco-Roman style in 1934 and 1942 and in 1935, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1946, 1947, 1948 and 1950 in heavyweight and 1937 in light heavyweight and in 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1950 in free style heavyweight.

swell

• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976
• various issues of the specialist magazine "Kraftsport" from 1937 to 1939 and the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1936 and 1948 to 1950

Web links

• Profile of Gyula Bóbis at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Gyula Bóbis in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Brief portrait of Gyula Bobis at the Hungarian Wrestling Association