Jiří Kormaník

Jiří Kormaník (born March 26, 1935 in Scăiuş , Caraş-Severin County , Romania ; † November 3, 2017 ) was a Czechoslovakian wrestler . He won at the Olympic Games in 1964 in Tokyo a silver medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in the middleweight division.

Career

Jiří Kormaník grew up in Chomutov and started wrestling there as a teenager at the ASK Valzap Chomutov sports club . He concentrated on the Greco-Roman style. At a height of 1.74 m, he competed in the middleweight and light heavyweight division. He made his debut at international championships at the 1958 World Cup in Budapest . He played there in the light heavyweight division three fights, where he wrestled against Herbert Albrecht from Suhl , but against György Gurics from Hungary and Rune Jansson from Sweden lost. He came in 8th place.

In 1960 he represented Czechoslovakia at the Olympic Games in Rome . Here he started in the middleweight division, landed two wins and then fought against Lothar Metz from Rostock in a draw. He lost his fourth fight against the Turkish welterweight champion from 1958 Kâzım Ayvaz . He was eliminated and finished in 9th place.

At the 1961 World Championships in Yokohama , Jiří Kormaník also started in free style because the ČSSR could only send a limited number of wrestlers to Yokohama for reasons of cost. In the free style he managed a win, but defeats against Géza Hollósi from Hungary and Mansour Mehdizadeh from Iran , who became world champion in this weight class, forced him to retire. He came in 5th place. He took the same place in the Greco-Roman style with a win, a draw and a defeat against Yavuz Selekman from Turkey.

Also at the 1962 World Cup in Toledo (Ohio) only a few Czechoslovak wrestlers competed . Jiří Kormaník was not one of them and in 1963 he did not start at any international championships. In 1964 he took part in the Olympic Games for the second time. In Tokyo he started in Greco-Roman. Middleweight style. With four wins, one against Lothar Metz and two draws against Stig Persson from Sweden and Géza Hollósi, he won the silver medal in Tokyo behind Branislav Simić from Yugoslavia and ahead of Lothar Metz. He no longer had the opportunity to fight for the gold medal against Simić because after the 6th round he had exceeded the maximum number of points allowed for faults (6), while Simić was still below.

In 1965 Jiří Kormaník also won a world championship medal with third place at the World Championships in Tampere . The draw he scored against the strong Turk Tevfik Kış was remarkable . In 1966, Jiří Kormaník started at the European Championship, which took place for the first time since 1949 and was held in Essen . He afforded the faux pas after a draw against the Finn Kaarlo Wieser to be shouldered by the Luxembourger Raymund Schummer, with which he was eliminated and only came in 15th place.

Even in 1967 he was not very successful, because he landed both at the European Championships in Minsk and at the World Championships in Bucharest in 8th place in the middleweight division. In Minsk he lost against the Poles Bolesław Mackiewicz and the Hungarians László Sillai and in Bucharest against Lothar Metz and again against Sillai, who became world champion.

With three wins and two draws, Jiří Kormaník managed to win another medal (bronze medal) at the 1968 European Middleweight Championship in Västerås . At the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968 he did not succeed, because he only won there against the Swiss Jean-Marie Chardonnens and lost to Valentin Olenik from the Soviet Union and Branislav Simić from Yugoslavia and only reached 10th place.

After the Olympic Games in 1968 he ended his career as an active wrestler and worked as a coach for his home club.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style, Wed = middleweight, up to 1968 up to 79 kg body weight, from 1969 up to 87 kg body weight, light heavyweight, until 1968 up to 87 kg body weight, from 1969 up to 97 kg body weight)

year	space	competition	style	Weight class
1957	3.	III. Intern. Sports games in Moscow	GR	medium	behind Dimitar Dobrew , Bulgaria and in front of Wassili Zenin , USSR
1958	8th.	World Cup in Budapest	GR	Semi-difficult	with a tie against Herbert Albrecht , GDR and defeats against György Gurics , Hungary and Rune Jansson , Sweden
1960	9.	OS in Rome	GR	medium	with wins over Mansour Hasrati, Iran and André Lamy, France , a draw against Lothar Metz , Germany and a loss against Kâzım Ayvaz , Turkey
1961	5.	World Cup in Yokohama	F.	medium	with a win over Oh Jei-Young, Korea and losses to Géza Hollósi , Hungary and Mansour Mehdizadeh , Iran
1961	5.	World Cup in Yokohama	GR	medium	with a win over Abbas Golmakhani, Iran, a draw against Géza Hollósi and a loss against Yavuz Selekman , Turkey
1964	silver	OS in Tokyo	GR	medium	with victories over Kenjirō Hiraki , Japan , István Raskovy, Hungary, Yavuz Selekman and Lothar Metz and a draw against Stig Persson , Sweden and Géza Hollósi
1965	3.	World Cup in Tampere	GR	medium	with victories over Tatsumi Hayama, Japan and Yocoub Abousalloum, Lebanon and a draw against Tevfik Kış , Turkey, Petar Cucić , Yugoslavia and Stig Persson
1966	15th	EM in Essen	GR	medium	after a draw against Kaarlo Wieser, Finland and a loss against Raymond Schummer , Luxembourg
1967	8th.	EM in Minsk	GR	medium	with a win over Bernard Philippi, Luxembourg, a draw against Stig Persson and losses against Bolesław Mackiewicz , Poland and László Sillai , Hungary
1967	8th.	World Cup in Bucharest	GR	medium	with a win over Kenjirō Hiraki and defeats against Lothar Metz and László Sillai
1968	2.	"Dan Kolew" tournament in Sevljewo	GR	medium	behind Petar Krumow , Bulgaria and in front of Nicolae Neguț , Romania
1968	3.	EM in Västerås	GR	medium	with victories over Mosche Weinberg , Israel , Yavuz Selekman and Teuvo Ojala, Finland and a draw against Bertil Nyström , Sweden and Nicolae Neguț
1968	10.	OS in Mexico City	GR	medium	with a victory over Jean-Marie Chardonnens, Switzerland and defeats against Walentin Olenik , USSR and Branislav Simić , Yugoslavia

Czechoslovak Championships

Jiří Kormaník won four Czechoslovakian championship titles in the Greco-Roman style in middle and light heavyweight.

literature

• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976

Web links

• Jiří Kormaník's profile at the Institute of Applied Training Science
• Jiří Kormaník in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Milan Kubík: Navždy odešel stříbrný Zapasnik z Tokia Jiří Kormaník. In: Chomutovský deník. November 8, 2017, Retrieved December 3, 2017 (Czech).