István Kovács (wrestler)

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István Kovács (born June 27, 1950 in Nádudvar , Hajdú-Bihar County ) is a former Hungarian wrestler . He was world champion in 1979 freestyle middleweight.

Career

István Kovács started wrestling as a teenager and after his initial successes was delegated to the top Hungarian club Csepel SC . There he developed into one of the best freestyle wrestlers in Hungary, who also received many successes on the international wrestling mat. In Hungary he was initially in the shadow of the veterans Géza Hollósi and Károly Bajkó , but from 1972 he determined the events in the Hungarian freestyle wrestling in the middleweight division.

From this point on he started regularly in the international championships, always in the middleweight division, the weight class that at that time reached up to 82 kg body weight. He made his debut at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich . There he only managed to win over the Canadian Taras Hyb and retired early after defeats against Tömöriin Artag from Mongolia and the Leipzig Horst Stottmeister . He ended up in 14th place.

His best placement in the years after 1972 he achieved with a 4th place at the European Championships in 1974 in Madrid . At the 1975 World Cup in Minsk , he came in 7th place. He was u. a. also Adolf Seger from Freiburg im Breisgau , who won the title at this world championship. In 1976 he came in 5th place at the European Championships in Leningrad after another defeat against Adolf Seger. This year he took part in the Olympic Games in Montreal for the second time and finished there in 7th place after two wins and two losses.

In 1977 István Kovács won his first medal at an international championship. He finished 3rd in the middleweight championship in Lausanne behind Adolf Seger and Magomedchan Arazilow from the Soviet Union . Interestingly, he helped Adolf Seger to the world title with his completely surprising victory over Arakilow in the last fight of the middleweight competition. For István Kovács this victory was meaningless, because he would have finished third without this victory, but for Arakilow, who had defeated Adolf Seger, the defeat meant the loss of the world title.

In 1978, István Kovács just missed a medal both times with a 5th place at the European Championships in Sofia and a 4th place at the World Championships in Mexico City . At both events he lost u. a. Again against Adolf Seger.

The most successful year of his career for István Kovács was 1979. He won the European Championship silver medal at the European Championships in Budapest with five wins and one defeat against the Soviet athlete Alexander Alexejew. For the first time, he also succeeded in defeating Adolf Seger. At the 1979 World Cup in San Diego he was even more successful, because with victories over Ismail Abilow from Bulgaria , Magomedchan Arazilow, Michael Busse from Poland and Dzewegiin Düwtschin from Mongolia , he was despite a defeat against 1972 Olympic champion John Peterson from the United States World champion .

In 1980 he only started at the Olympic Games in Moscow . Although he achieved five wins there, he lost the decisive battles for the award of medals against Ismail Abilow and Magomedchan Arazilow. But he still won the bronze medal .

After a 6th place at the 1981 World Cup in Skopje , he ended his international career. But he struggled even further at the national level and, as a thirty-five-year-old, still fought successfully for AC Bavaria Goldbach in the German Bundesliga for a few years .

International success

year space competition Weight class
1972 3. Tournament in Bucharest medium behind Vasile Iorga , Romania u. Andras Deak, Hungary
1972 14th OS in Munich medium with a victory over Taras Hyb, Canada a . Defeats against Tömöriin Artag , Mongolia a . Horst Stottmeister , GDR
1974 4th EM in Madrid medium with victories over Juan Cechini, Spain , Alois Peng, Switzerland a . Iannis Karageorgiou, Greece a . Defeats against Viktor Novoshilov , USSR a . Petko Zaberski, Bulgaria
1974 10. World Cup in Istanbul medium with a victory over George Gregory, USA a . Defeats against Viktor Novoshilov a. Shukri Lutviev Akhmedov , Bulgaria
1975 7th World Cup in Minsk medium with victories over Mohammad-Reza Ejrud, Iran a . Arnost Böhm, Czechoslovakia a . Defeats against Adolf Seger , FRG a . Vasile Iorga
1976 5. EM in Leningrad medium with victories over Kurt Elmgren, Sweden a . Jimmy Martinetti, Switzerland a. Defeats against Viktor Novoshilov and Adolf Seger
1976 7th OS medium with victories over Mohammad-Hassan Mohebi, Iran a. Manuel Villapol, Puerto Rico et al. Losses against John Peterson (wrestler) , USA a. Mehmet Uzun , Turkey
1977 6th EM in Bursa medium with a victory over Jarmo Övermark , Finland a . Defeats against Ismail Abilow , Bulgaria a. Jan Gorski , Poland
1977 3. World Cup in Lausanne medium with victories over Ismail Abilow , Jarmo Övermark , Jan Gorski u. Magomedchan Arazilow , USSR a. Defeats against Mehmet Uzun u. Adolf Seger
1978 5. EM in Sofia medium with victories over Armin Weyer, GDR a. Henryk Mazur, Poland a. Defeats against Adolf Seger u. Zhukri Lutviev Akhmedov
1978 4th World Cup in Mexico City medium with victories over Tibor Sereghely , Romania, Fernando Goldschmied, Mexico, Henryk Mazur u. Jimmy Martinetti et al. Defeats against Magomedchan Arazilow u. Adolf Seger
1979 2. EM in Bucharest medium with victories over Günter Bussarello, Austria , Tibor Sereghely, Henryk Mazur, Reşit Karabacak , Turkey a. Adolf Seger u. a loss to Alexander Alexejew, USSR
1979 1. "Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig medium before Peter Syring u. Günter Rieger, bde. GDR
1979 1. World Cup in San Diego medium with victories over Ismail Abilow , Magomedchan Arazilow, Michael Busse , Poland a. Dzewegiin Duvchin , Mongolia, despite a loss to John Peterson
1980 3. Grand Prix of the FRG in Freiburg im Breisgau medium behind Magomedchan Arazilow u. Adolf Seger
1980 bronze OS in Moscow medium with victories over Günter Bussarello, Zache Ndock, Cameroon , Abdula Memedi, Yugoslavia, Dsewegiin Düwtschin u. Henryk Mazur et al. Defeats against Ismail Abilow u. Magomedkhan Arazilov
1981 6th World Cup in Skopje medium with victories over Alfred Sutter, BRD a. Leszek Ciota, Poland a. Defeats to Christopher Campbell , USA a. Grigori Danko, USSR

Hungarian championships

István Kovács was born in 1970, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 a. 1984 Hungarian free style middleweight champion

swell

  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
  • Trade magazines Athletik and Der Ringer,
  • Website "www.webspawner.com"

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Kovács, István
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Nádudvar , Hajdú-Bihar county