Jean Földeák

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Jean Földeák medal table

Wrestler

Germany
Olympic games
silver 1932 Los Angeles Means Greco
European Championship
bronze 1930 Stockholm Welter Greco
gold 1931 Budapest World freestyle
silver 1933 Helsinki Means Greco
gold 1933 Paris World freestyle
gold 1934 Stockholm World freestyle

Jean Földeák (born June 9, 1903 in Hitiaş , Timiş County , then Hungary , now Romania ; † May 5, 1993 ) was a German wrestler.

Career

Jean Földeak grew up in Hungary, went to the wrestlers and learned to be a locksmith. In 1924 he wanted to emigrate to the USA , but did not receive a visa and stayed in Hamburg , where he rejoined a wrestling club. In 1927 he received German citizenship . As early as 1926 he attracted attention in the German wrestling world by defeating European champion Fritz Bräun , Kreuznach . From 1927 he successfully participated in German and from 1929 also in international championships. He was the first German wrestler ever to take part in international championships for amateurs in freestyle wrestling and was also very successful. In 1932 he took part in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles . In his favorite discipline, freestyle wrestling, he failed in the welterweight division against a US wrestler and only finished 4th. He then started spontaneously in the Greco-Roman style, but since he had increased in the meantime and the limit for the welterweight no longer brought, compete in the middleweight division. He managed the feat of winning the silver medal behind the Finn Väinö Kokkinen . In 1935 he ended his active career. He became Reichstrainer for wrestling, went to Poland after differences with German officials , returned, became Reichstrainer again and was national coach until 1966 after the Second World War . After 1945 he founded a company in Munich for the production of wrestling mats and training equipment for wrestling, which is still a market leader today.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = freestyle, We = welterweight, Wed = middleweight, back then up to 73 kg or 79 kg body weight)

In seven international matches, he wins five times for Germany.

Success at German championships

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