Jan Kårström

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Jan Kårström (born December 6, 1944 in Bromma ) is a former Swedish wrestler , vice European champion in 1969 and multiple Olympian in the Greco-Roman style.

Career

Jan "Källe" Kårström started wrestling as a teenager. He was a member of the Västerås Brottningsklubb and focused entirely on the Greco-Roman style. At a height of 1.74 meters, he competed in welterweight (up to 78 kg body weight) for a long time and from 1969, after a weight class reform by the International Wrestling Association ( FILA ), in middleweight (up to 82 kg body weight).

His international career began in 1965 with a start at the World Championships in Tampere . As an internationally relatively inexperienced young wrestler, he came to a welterweight draw against the American Russell Camilleri and the Japanese Katsusuke Ota. In his third fight he lost to the Turkish Sirri Acar , which he eliminated and ended up in 10th place.

Also at the European Championships in 1967 in Minsk , he was again a good figure in welterweight. He again fought twice "draws" (against Sandor Kovacs from Hungary and against Matti Laakso from Finland ), but lost, again in his third fight, against the Yugoslav Milan Nenadić , which he had to retire and finished 13th. At the World Championships in Bucharest that same year , Jan Kårström surprisingly won his first medal. He won there over Jimmy Martinetti from Switzerland and Antal Rizmayer from Hungary and fought against the multiple world champion Viktor Igumenow from the USSR in a draw. In his second final fight he lost to the experienced Rudolf Vesper from the GDR , who in turn had lost to Igumenow. Jan Kårström came third behind Igumenow and Vesper.

At the European Championships in 1968 in Västerås, Jan Kårström missed a welterweight medal with fourth place, while he had defeated three world-class athletes with Ion Ţăranu from Romania , Milan Nenadić and Daniel Robin from France . The medal cost him the "undecided" fights against Matti Laakso and Wladislaw Iwlew from the USSR, because he was eliminated before reaching the final round.

He also fought well at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City . He remained undefeated there in four fights. He won over Jimmy Martinetti and Adam Ostrowski from Poland and fought against Milan Nenadić and Sirri Acar in a draw. However, he had exceeded the permissible number of faults of "6", which meant that he was eliminated before the final and came in 6th place.

In 1969 Jan Kårström took a very good 4th place in the middleweight division in Mar del Plata in March. He only managed one victory there over the American Philipp Wells, against Omar Bliadse from the USSR, Milan Nenadić and Petar Krumow from Bulgaria, all athletes from the Eastern Bloc countries, which are very strong in the wrestling, he wrestled in a draw. Jan Kårström landed a great success at the European Championships in 1969 in Modena in the middleweight division. He was there after three victorious fights and a defeat against Milan Nenadić as well as a disqualification (both wrestlers were disqualified for "passivity") in the fight against Matti Laakso vice- European champion .

At the European Championships in 1970 in East Berlin , Jan Kårstöm once again took the ungrateful 4th place. He had defeated Daniel Robin and Rudolf Menzi from Switzerland. Against Milan Nenadić, his permanent opponent at international championships, he lost and in the fight against the Bulgarian Dimitar Mantschorow there was again a disqualification of both wrestlers due to passivity.

At the following international championships, Kårström could no longer place himself among the ten best wrestlers. At the 1970 World Cup in Edmonton he came in 11th place, at the 1971 World Cup in Sofia he wrestled a. a. Tied against Kiril Dimitrov from Bulgaria, but lost to Reinhold Hucker from Germany, with which he came in 10th place in the final score and at the 1972 European Championships in Katowice , where he wrestled a. a. a draw against Peter Nettekoven from Germany, it was again only enough for 11th place.

He then concluded his international career at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich . He fought well again here and won against Reinhold Hucker on points and fought against Frank Hartmann from the GDR in a draw. In his third fight he met the reigning world champion Csaba Hegedűs from Hungary, against whom he was defeated on points, with which he was eliminated and finished in 10th place. Csaba Hegedűs became Olympic champion and was named the best wrestler of the entire Olympic tournament.

International success

year space competition Weight class
1965 3. Klippan tournament Welter behind Piotr Starzcynski, Poland a . Harald Barlie , Norway
1965 10. World Cup in Tampere Welter with a draw against Russell Camilleri , USA a . Katsusuke Ota, Japan and one loss to Sırrı Acar , Turkey
1966 3. Klippan tournament Welter behind Stevan Horvat , Yugoslavia a . Andersson, Sweden
1967 3. Klippan tournament Welter behind Stevan Horvat u. Czardybon, Poland, ahead of Peter Nettekoven , FRG
1967 13. EM in Minsk Welter with a draw against Sandor Kovacs, Hungary a . Matti Laakso , Finland and a loss to Milan Nenadić , Yugoslavia
1967 3. World Cup in Bucharest Welter with victories over Jimmy Martinetti, Switzerland a . Antal Rizmayer, Hungary, a tie against Wiktor Igumenow , USSR and a loss against Rudolf Vesper , GDR
1968 2. Tournament in Zella-Mehlis Welter behind Rudolf Vesper, in front of Gods, bde. GDR
1968 1. "Pytlasinski" tournament in Warsaw Welter before Batur u. Dubicki, bde. Poland
1968 4th EM in Västerås Welter with victories over Ion Ţăranu , Romania , Milan Nenadić u. Daniel Robin , France and a tie against Matti Laakso and Wladislaw Iwlew , USSR
1968 6th OS in Mexico City Welter with victories over Jimmy Martinetti a. Adam Ostrowski, Poland a. Draw against Milan Nenadić and Sırrı Acar
1969 4th World Cup in Mar del Plata medium with a victory over Philipp Wells, USA a . Draw against Omar Bliadse , USSR, Milan Nenadić and Petar Krumow , Bulgaria
1969 2. EM in Modena medium with victories over Jimmy Martinetti, John Petersen, Denmark a . Hakon Överby , Norway, a loss to Milan Nenadić and a disqualification to Matti Laakso (both wrestlers were disqualified)
1970 3. Klippan tournament medium behind Wiktor Igumenow and Peter Nettekoven
1970 4th EM in East Berlin medium with wins over Daniel Robin and Rudolf Menzi, Switzerland, one defeat against Milan Nenadić and one disqualification against Dimitar Mantschorow , Bulgaria (both wrestlers were disqualified)
1970 11. World Cup in Edmonton medium with a victory over Matti Laakso and defeats against Anatoli Nasarenko , USSR and Adam Ostrowski
1971 1. Klippan tournament medium in front of Wiktor Igumenow and Schoberg, Sweden
1971 3. Nordic championship medium behind Harald Barlie and Matti Laakso
1971 10. World Cup in Sofia medium with victories over Niang, Senegal and Pentti Punkari, Finland, a draw against Kiril Dimitrov , Bulgaria a. Defeats against Reinhold Hucker , BRD and Milan Nenadić
1972 11. EM in Katowice medium with a draw against Peter Nettekoven, a defeat against Miroslav Janota , Czechoslovakia and a disqualification against Matti Laakso (both wrestlers were disqualified)
1972 10. OS in Munich medium with a win over Reinhold Hucker , a draw against Frank Hartmann, GDR and a defeat against Csaba Hegedűs , Hungary
1974 3. Klippan tournament Semi-difficult behind Stojan Nikolow , Bulgaria a. Dieter Heuer , GDR
1975 2. Tournament in Västerås Heavy behind Fredi Albrecht , GDR, in front of Heinz Schäfer, FRG

Note: all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, welterweight, up to 1968 up to 78 kg, then up to 74 kg, middle weight, up to 1968 up to 87 kg, then up to 82 kg, light heavyweight, up to 1968 up to 97 kg, then up to 90 kg, Heavy weight, from 1969 up to 100 kg body weight

swell

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

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Kårström, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromma