Josef Krysta

Josef Krysta (born October 24, 1956 in Český Těšín , Moravskoslezský kraj ) is a former Czechoslovakian wrestler . He was Vice World Champion in 1981 and Vice European Champion in Greco-Roman style in bantamweight in 1982 .

Career

Josef Krysta started wrestling as a teenager in Třinec / Moravia . He belonged to the sports club SK Železárny Třinec . His trainer was Georg Frank. The only 1.58 meter tall athlete wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style and throughout his career in bantamweight, the weight class that at his time reached up to 57 kg body weight.

At the age of 18 he made his debut on the international wrestling mat. He started in 1974 at the Senior World Championships in Katowice , but had to pay hardship there with two defeats against Bernd Drechsel from the GDR and Hans-Jürgen Veil from the FRG . He only came in 15th place. Things went much better for him at the 1974 Junior World Championships in Haskovo , where he just missed a medal with 4th place. At the European Seniors Championships in 1975 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , he scored two wins and, after defeats against Lars Malmkvist from Sweden and Ivan Frgić from Yugoslavia, landed on a good 5th place.

At the 1976 European Championships in Leningrad , he won a medal for the first time, the bronze one, with four victories. Among the wrestlers he beat were three top international players: Lars Malmkvist , Krasimir Stefanow from Bulgaria and Jozsef Doenczecs from Hungary . He suffered defeats from Hans-Jürgen Veil and Farhat Mustafin from the USSR . Because of this good result, the Czechoslovak wrestling association sent Josef Krysta to the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal . There he defeated again Krasimir Stefanow and the American Joseph Sade, while he lost to Yoshima Suga from Japan and Mihai Boțilă from Romania . In the end result he took a respectable 8th place.

In 1978 Josef Krysta reached 4th place at the European Championships in Oslo , but celebrated remarkable victories over the Swede Benni Ljungbeck and the German Pasquale Passarelli, who was at the beginning of his career . At the World Cup this year he came in 10th place and lost there against Pasquale Passarelli and the Soviet representative Shamil Serikov .

In 1979 he won a bronze medal again at the European Championships in Bucharest . Pasquale Passarelli and Shamil Serikow proved to be stronger than him again. In 1980 Josef Krysta took 6th place at the Olympic Games in Moscow, which were boycotted by many nations . He won there over the Hungarian Gyula Molnar and lost to Josef Lipien from Poland and Schamil Serikow.

After a disappointing 7th place at the European Championships in Gothenburg in 1981 , where he only won against Hartmut Kohlhaas from the GDR , but lost to Benni Ljungbeck from Sweden and Árpád Sipos from Hungary, Josef Krysta celebrated his greatest success at the 1981 World Cup in Oslo Career. He was with four wins and one loss in the final against Pasquale Passarelli vice world champion in bantamweight.

This success was followed by the next one at the 1982 European Championships in Varna , because in Varna, after a defeat in the final against the Bulgarian Petar Balow, he was also Vice European Champion .

In 1983 and 1984 Josef Krysta wasn't quite as successful anymore, but at least got an excellent 4th place at the 1983 World Cup in Kiev . In the battle for the bronze medal he was defeated again against Petar Balow. He was unable to take part in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles because of the “revenge boycott” of these games by the socialist states of the time.

At the end of 1984 Josef Krysta ended his international wrestling career. Nothing is known about his further professional and sporting life.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Ba = bantam weight, back then up to 57 kg body weight)

• 1974, 15th place , World Cup in Katowice , GR, Ba, after defeats against Bernd Drechsel , GDR a . Hans-Jürgen Veil , Germany ;
• 1975, 4th place , Junior World Championships in Haskovo , GR, Ba, behind Yuri Korchagin, USSR , Dimitar Milew, Bulgaria a . Lars Malmkvist , Sweden , in front of Panelli, Italy a . Dumitru, Romania ;
• 1975, 5th place , EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , GR, Ba, with victories over Jean-Pierre Mercader, France a . Danny Verstraeten, Belgium a . Defeats against Lars Malmkvist u. Ivan Frgić , Yugoslavia ;
• 1975, 9th place , World Championships in Minsk , GR, Ba, with a victory over Hosain Toranian, Iran a . Defeats to Farhat Mustafin , USSR a. Ivan Frgić;
• 1976, 3rd place , EM in Leningrad , GR, Ba, with victories over Bjarne Tofte, Denmark , Krasimir Stefanow , Bulgaria, Lars Malmkvist u. Jozsef Dönczecs , Hungary a . Defeats against Hans-Jürgen Veil u. Farhat Mustafin , USSR;
• 1976, 8th place , OS in Montreal , GR, Ba, with victories over Krasimir Stefanow a. Joseph Sade, USA a . Defeats to Yoshima Suga, Japan a . Mihai Boțilă , Romania:
• 1978, 4th place , EM in Oslo , GR, Ba, with victories over Avvid, Denmark, Pasquale Passarelli , FRG , Benni Ljungbeck , Sweden a. Assen Milew , Bulgaria a. Defeats against Vladimir Pogudin , USSR a. Josef Lipien , Poland ;
• 1978, 10th place , World Cup in Mexico City , GR, Ba, with a victory over Bruno Kuratli, Switzerland a . Defeats against Shamil Serikow , USSR a. Pasquale Passarelli;
• 1979, 3rd place , EM in Bucharest , GR, Ba, with victories over Herbert Nigsch, Austria , Morten Brekke, Norway a . Mihai Boțilă, Romania a. Defeats against Pasquale Passarelli u. Shamil Serikov;
• 1980, 6th place , OS in Moscow , GR, Ba, with a victory over Gyula Molnar, Hungary a. Defeats against Josef Lipien u. Shamil Serikov;
• 1981, 3rd place , Klippan tournament, GR, Ba, behind Sagradjan, USSR a. Benni Ljungbeck, Sweden;
• 1981, 7th place , EM in Göteborg , GR, Ba, with a victory over Hartmut Kohlhaas , GDR a. Defeats against Benni Ljungbeck u. Árpád Sipos , Hungary;
• 1981, 2nd place , World Championships in Oslo , GR, Ba, with victories over Dan Mellow, USA, Petar Balow , Bulgaria, Josef Raczak, Poland a. Haralambos Holidis , Greece a . a loss to Pasquale Passarelli;
• 1982, 2nd place , EM in Varna , GR, Ba, behind Petar Balow and in front of Sumer Karadag, Turkey , Gheorghe Zamfir , Romania a. Josef Raczak;
• 1983, 3rd place , Grand Prix of Austria , GR, Ba, behind Herbert Nigsch u. Hugo Dietsche , Switzerland;
• 1983, 6th place , EM in Budapest , GR, Ba, behind Emil Iwanow , Bulgaria, Haralambos Holidis, Wassili Fomin , USSR, Arpad Sipos and Gheorghe Zamfir;
• 1983, 4th place , World Championships in Kiev , GR, Ba, behind Masako Eto , Japan, Kamil Fatkulin , USSR a. Petar Balow, in front of Arpad Sipos a. Sumer Karadag;
• 1984, 7th place , EM in Jönköping , GR, Ba, with a victory over Ronny Sidge , Norway a. Defeats against Kamil Fatkulin u. Petar Balov

swell

• Athletics magazine , numbers: 9/74, 8/75, 9/76
• Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 5/78, 9/78, 5/79, 8/80, 4/81, 9/81, 5/6/82, 9/83, 10/83, 5/84
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976

Web links

• Profile of Josef Krysta at the Institute for Applied Training Science