Istvan Majoros

István Majoros (born July 11, 1974 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian wrestler . He was Olympic champion in the Greco-Roman style in the bantamweight in 2004 .

Career

István Majoros started wrestling at Sportclub Szeged BK in 1985 . He later moved to the sports clubs Kecskeméti Torna Egylet and Budapest VSC . His most important coaches in his career were Tibor Tihanics and Zoltan Kovacs. He focused entirely on the Greco-Roman style and wrestled at a height of 1.65 meters in the bantamweight and towards the end of his career in the featherweight .

As a junior wrestler, István Majoros had great successes. When he first took part in a Junior World Championship for the Cadets age group (up to the age of 16) in 1990 in Szombathely , he immediately won the world title in the weight class up to 43 kg body weight. In this championship, he also wrestled exceptionally in the free style and took 6th place in this style in the same weight class. At the Junior World Championships in 1991 for the Juniors age group (up to the age of 18) in Barcelona , he took 2nd place in the weight class up to 50 kg behind Vitaly Tscheban, USSR . In 1992 he finally came 4th at the Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Cali / Colombia in the weight class up to 54 kg body weight, in which Seref Eroglu from Turkey won.

In 1995 István Majoros was used by the Hungarian Wrestling Association for the first time at an international championship among seniors. He started at the bantamweight championship in Prague that year . He left there early and only finished 23rd. In 1996 he was the first Hungarian champion in the senior bantamweight division. By 2005 he won six more Hungarian championship titles in bantam or featherweight.

In the next few years he started regularly at the world and European championships, but was not able to place in any of these championships until 1999. But he had some good and interesting fights at these championships. He lost to the German Jan Ulbrich in the first round on points (2: 9) at the 1997 European Championships in Kouvola . At the 1997 World Cup in Wroclaw , he lost to eventual world champion Yuri Melnitschenko from Kazakhstan after a good fight 0: 4 on points. At the 1998 European Championships in Minsk he defeated the defending champion Karen Mnazakanjan from Armenia and the strong French Djamel Ainaoui , but lost to Olympic champion Armen Nazarjan , Bulgaria and Igor Petrenko from Belarus. At the 1999 World Championships in Athens , where he finished 7th in the bantamweight division and thus achieved the best result in international championships up to that point, he won points over the former German world champion Rıfat Yıldız .

At the European Championships in Moscow in 2000 , he then achieved his first major victory. There he became the new European bantamweight champion and defeated Rifat Yildiz (3: 2) in the semifinals and Armen Nazarjan (3: 1) in the final on points. At the Olympic Games in Sydney this year , he could not continue this good result. He lost there against Agbolag Ashkani from Iran and against Koba Guliaschwili from Georgia , so he was eliminated without a win and ended up in 18th place.

In 2001 he started at the World Cup in Patras and won there over Irakli Chochua from Georgia and Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan from Germany, but lost to Armen Nazarjan and only came in 13th. After this World Cup, István Majoros went to France for economic reasons. However, he was unable to gain a foothold there and therefore returned to Hungary in 2003. In 2003 he took part in the World Championships in Créteil . There he lost his first fight against Petr Svehla from the Czech Republic and despite his subsequent victories over Ibragim Achmed from Qatar and Tanjo Tenew from Bulgaria only came in 12th place.

In 2004, István Majoros won 3rd place at the Qlympia qualification tournament in Novi Sad behind Brandon Paulson from the United States and Ercan Yıldız from Turkey to participate in the Olympic Games in Athens . In Athens, he surprised the entire Ringer world for the second time after the European Championships in 2000 and was with wins over Masatoshi Toyota of Japan , Jansef Ramirez of the Dominican Republic, Lazaro Rivas Scull from Cuba , Oleksiy Wakulenko , Ukraine and Gaidar Mamedalijew from Russia Olympic champion bantamweight.

In 2005 he rounded off this success with a 3rd place at the World Championships in Budapest. He won over Anders Rønningen , Norway , Lindsey Durlacher , USA, Rowschan Bajramow , Azerbaijan and in the battle for the bronze medal Anders Nyblom , Denmark . In the semifinals he was there against Park Eun-chul , South Korea , just inferior on points (1: 2 rounds at 4: 4 points). In 2006 István Majoros could not bring the weight limit for the bantamweight anymore and therefore started at the European Championships in Moscow and at the 2006 World Championships in Guangzhou in the featherweight division. He finished 5th and 15th. In Guangzhou he played the last fight of his career against the German Heinz Marnette , to which he lost on points.

On December 31, 2006 he fought in Osaka in a so-called mixed martial arts fight K-1 against the Japanese Norifumi Yamamoto and lost by technical knockout in the first round. It was to be his only fight in the sport.

Then he tried to make a living in the restaurant business.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Result
1990	1.	Junior World Championships (Cadets) in Szombathely	up to 43 kg body weight	before Mato G. Navarro, Cuba and Murat Nuruz, Turkey (Greco-Roman style)
1990	6th	Junior World Championships (Cadets) in Szombathely	up to 43 kg body weight	Winner: Harun Doğan , Turkey ahead of Abbas Jaja Kenari, Iran (free style)
1991	2.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Barcelona	up to 50 kg kg	behind Vitaly Tscheban, USSR , in front of Rudy Lara Valle, Cuba
1992	4th	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Cali / Colombia	up to 54 kg body weight	behind Seref Eroglu , Turkey, Rudy Lara Valle and Kim Chul-tae, South Korea
1995	1.	Intern. Tournament in Linz	feather	before Andreas Sommer, Austria and Luis Fontes, Portugal
1995	23.	World Cup in Prague	Bantam	Winner: Dennis Hall , USA ahead of Yuri Melnichenko , Kazakhstan and Alexander Ignatenko , Russia
1996	2.	Hungarian Grand Prix in Eger	Bantam	behind Alik Schtepanjan, Ukraine , in front of Marian Sandu , Romania
1996	12.	EM in Budapest	Bantam	Winner: Seref Eroglu ahead of Marian Sandu and Rıfat Yıldız , Germany
1997	2.	Hungarian Grand Prix in Nyíregyháza	Bantam	behind Marian Sandu, in front of Ergüder Bekisdamat, Turkey
1997	1.	Grand Prix of Israel in Beer-Sheba	Bantam	in front of Djamel Ainaoui , France and Efstatinos Theodossiadis, Greece
1997	19th	EM in Kouvola	Bantam	Winner: Karen Mnazakanjan , Armenia ahead of Djamel Ainaoui and Ergüder Bekisdamat
1997	16.	World Cup in Wrocław	Bantam	Winner: Yuri Melnitschenko ahead of Rafik Simonjan , Russia and Armen Nazarjan , Bulgaria
1998	9.	EM in Minsk	Bantam	after victory over Djamel Ainaoui, defeat against Armen Nazarjan, victory over Karen Mnazakanjan and defeat against Igor Petrenko, Belarus
1998	10.	World Cup in Gaevle	Bantam	after victory over Terho Kettunen, Finland , defeat against Rafik Simonjan, victories over Remigius Sukevicius, Lithuania and Sarkis Elgkian, Greece and defeat against Constantin Borăscu , Romania
1999	16.	EM in Sofia	Bantam	after defeats against Koba Guliaschwili, Georgia and Armen Nazarjan
1999	7th	World Cup in Athens	Bantam	after victories over Constantin Borascu, Arash Rayhaniasi, Netherlands and Rifat Yildiz and a defeat against Armen Nazarjan
2000	1.	EM in Moscow	Bantam	in front of Armen Nazarjan, Rifat Yildiz, Norbert Futo, Yugoslavia and Yuri Khrabrow, Belarus (and victories over Rifat Yildiz and Armen Nazarjan)
2000	18th	OS in Sydney	Bantam	after defeats against Agbolag Ashkani, Iran and Koba Guliaschwili
2001	13.	World Cup in Patras	Bantam	after victories over Irakli Chochua , Georgia and Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan , Germany
2003	12.	World Cup in Créteil	Bantam	after losing to Peter Svehla , Slovakia and victories over Ibragim Achmed, Qatar and Tanjo Tenew, Bulgaria
2004	3.	Olympic qualification tournament in Novi Sad	Bantam	behind Brandon Paulson , USA and Ercan Yıldız , Turkey
2004	gold	OS in Athens	Bantam	after victories over Masatoshi Toyota, Japan , Jansef Ramirez, Dom. Rep., Lazaro Rivas Scull , Cuba, Oleksij Wakulenko , Ukraine and Gaidar Mamedalijew , Russia
2005	2.	Pytlasinski Memorial in Racibórz	Bantam	behind Owran Chalilow, in front of Dariusz Jabłoński , Poland and Hamid Reihanpour Soryan , Iran
2005	3.	World Cup in Budapest	Bantam	after victories over Anders Rønningen , Norway , Lindsey Durlacher , USA and Rowshan Bajramow , Azerbaijan , a defeat against Park Eun-chul , South Korea and a win over Anders Nyblom , Denmark
2006	1.	World Cup in Budapest	feather	before Roberto Monzón , Cuba and Bunjamin Emik, Turkey
2006	5.	EM in Moscow	feather	after losing to David Bedinadze , Georgia, defeating Jani Hermansson, Finland and losing to Vyacheslav Jaste , Russia
2006	15th	World Cup in Guangzhou	feather	after defeating Kim Kyong Jin, North Korea and losing to David Bedinadse and Heinz Marnette , Germany

Hungarian championships

István Majoros won the Hungarian title in Greco-Roman style in 1996 and 1997 in bantamweight, 1998 in featherweight, 1999 and 2001 in bantamweight and 2003 and 2005 in featherweight.

Explanations

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style (exception: Junior World Championships 1990)
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Bantam weight, until 1996 up to 57 kg, from 1997 to 2001 up to 58 kg, since 2002 up to 55 kg body weight; Feather weight, since 2002 up to 60 kg body weight

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
• Website www.webspawner.com

Web links

• Portrait of István Majoros in Hungarian with some pictures
• Fight of István Majoros (red) in the final of the 2004 Olympic Games
• István Majoros' profile at the Institute for Applied Training Science