József Csatári

József Csatári [ ˈjoːʒɛf ˈtʃɒtaːri ] (born December 17, 1943 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian wrestler .

Career

József Csatári started wrestling at Kinizsi Húsos in 1958 . Through diligent training he has already won Hungarian championships in the youth and junior division. In 1965 he was therefore delegated to Ferencváros Budapest . There Andor Mángó became his coach. In 1963, only 20 years old, he was used for the first time in an international championship. He wrestled both in Greco-Roman and in free style. In the free style in the light heavyweight and heavyweight classes, in the Greco-Roman style mostly in the super heavyweight class. He won a total of six medals, including two Olympic bronze medals ( 1968 and 1972 ) and achieved many good placements.

After finishing his career as an active wrestler, he studied at a technical college and from 1976 worked in the management of the Honvéd Budapest club .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = freestyle, GR = Greco-Roman style, Hs = light heavy weight, up to 1968 up to 97 kg body weight, S = heavy weight, from 1969 up to 100 kg body weight, SS = super heavy weight , from 1969 over 100 kg body weight)

• 1963, 6th place , World Championship in Helsingborg , GR, Hs, with victories over Lucjan Sosnowski , Poland , Rudolf Feist, Switzerland , a draw against Eugen Wiesberger, Austria and a defeat against Nicolae Martinescu , Romania ;
• 1966, 3rd place , EM in Karlsruhe , F, Hs, with victories over Peter Jutzeler, Switzerland, Marcel Levasseur, France , a draw against Wassil Todorow , Bulgaria and defeats against Schota Lomidze , USSR and Ahmet Ayik , Turkey ;
• 1967, 4th place , EM in Istanbul , F, Hs, with victories over Ion Marton, Romania, a draw against Hjusni Hjusniew, Bulgaria and a defeat against Lomidze;
• 1968, 4th place , EM in Skopje , F, Hs, with victories over A. Mc Connell, United Kingdom , Jutzeler, a draw against Attila Balogh, Hungary and a defeat against Vladimir Gulutkin , USSR;
• 1968, bronze medal , OS in Mexico City , F, Hs, with victories over Edward Millard, Canada , Hollogin Baianmunch, Mongolia , Jutzeler and defeats against Lomidze and Ayik;
• 1969, 5th place , EM in Sofia , F, S, with victory over André Meindt, Romania and defeats against Todorow and Gulutkin;
• 1970, 4th place , EM in Berlin , F, S, with victory over Karel Engel, ČSSR and Balogh and defeats against Todorow and Ayik;
• 1970, 2nd place , World Championship in Edmonton , GR, SS, with victories over Chris Taylor , USA and Art Freschette, Canada, draw against Edward Wojda, Poland and Martinesu and one defeat against Anatoli Roschtschin , USSR;
• 1970, 8th place , World Championships in Edmonton , F, S, with victory over Abulfazil Anvari, Iran , a draw against Todorow and a loss against Gıyasettin Yılmaz , Turkey;
• 1971, 4th place , World Championships in Sofia , F, S, with victories over Shizuo Yade, Japan, Chalid, Iraq , Enache Panait, Romania and defeats against Todorow and Lomidze;
• 1971, 5th place , World Championship in Sofia, GR, SS, with victories over Ali Gharbi, Tunisia and Franz Labjohn, GDR , a draw against Victor Dolipschi , Romania and a defeat against Roschtschin;
• 1972, 4th place , OS in Munich , GR, SS, with victories over Miguel Zambrano, Peru and Tomoni Tsuruta, Japan and defeats against Ištvan Semeredi, Yugoslavia and Alexandar Tomow , Bulgaria;
• 1972, bronze medal , OS in Munich , F, S, with victories over Todorow, Alfons Hecher , FR Germany, Henk Schenk , USA and Ryszard Długosz, Poland and defeats against Hollogin Baianmunch and Iwan Jarygin , USSR;
• 1973, 2nd place , EM in Lausanne , F, S, with victories over Hacı Osman Yıldırız, Turkey, Duncan, Great Britain, Jutzeler and Harald Büttner , GDR and defeats against Marin Ratschew, Bulgaria and Gulutkin;
• 1973, 2nd place , World Championships in Tehran , F, S, with victories over Dimitar Nekow, Bulgaria, Petr Drozda, ČSSR, Büttner and James Dushen, USA and one defeat against Jarygin;
• 1973, 6th place , World Championships in Tehran, GR, SS, with victory over Eianr Gundersen, Norway and defeats against Omar Topuz , Turkey and Petr Kment , ČSSR;
• 1974, 6th place , World Cup in Madrid , F, S, with victories over Karl Bachmann, Switzerland and Panait and defeats against Büttner and Jarygin

swell

• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976,
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
• Athletics magazine

Web link

Profile of József Csatári at the Institute for Applied Training Science