Jozef Lohyňa

Jozef Lohyňa (born April 13, 1963 in Zlaté Moravce , Slovakia ) is a Czechoslovakian wrestler who started for Slovakia in 1994. He became world champion in 1990 and won a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in 1988 , each in free style in the middleweight division .

Career

Jozef Lohyňa began wrestling as a teenager, concentrating on free style. He started his career at Banik Prievidza , later he also started for Dunajplavba Bratislava . His first coach was his father Ľubomír Lohyňa, but later he worked with several other coaches. In 1982 he became Czechoslovak champion for the first time and in 1983 his international wrestling career began, which would last for 15 years. He is also very well known in German wrestling circles because he competed for German clubs in the German Bundesliga for years and won the German team championship twice with AC Bavaria Goldbach . After the end of his active career, he works as a trainer and is also a businessman in Bratislava.

His international career began at the European Wrestling Championships in Budapest in 1983 , where he finished fourth in the middleweight division. All in all, he then competed in a further 21 international championships up to 1998 and won ten medals.

The greatest success of his career he achieved at the World Wrestling Championships in 1990 when he was middleweight world champion in Tokyo before Royce Alger from the United States, whom he defeated in the final with 3-1 points. One year later, in 1991 , he was close to repeating this success in Varna . He fought his way up to the final, in which he stood against Kevin Jackson from the United States in the final. After the regular fight time it was 0-0 and in extra time Jackson achieved a small score that made him the 1-0 point winner. Jozef Lohyňa became vice world champion. He won a bronze medal at world championships at the World Wrestling Championships in Budapest in 1986 , defeating Reiner Trik from the Federal Republic of Germany with 10: 3 points in the fight for this medal .

At the Olympic Games Jozef Lohyňa started a total of three times, taking into account that he could not start in Los Angeles in 1984 because Czechoslovakia, true to the guidelines from Moscow, boycotted these games . He achieved the greatest success at these Olympic Games in 1988 when he won a bronze medal in Seoul . On the way to this medal he won over the Swiss Jollien, then lost to Han Myung-woo from South Korea just 7: 8 points, defeated Chris Rinke from Canada, Puntsagiin Süchbat , Mongolia, Ito, Japan and in the battle for the bronze medal Alexander Tambovzew from the Soviet Union, who was disqualified in this fight after 7:54 minutes of fighting time due to passivity, i.e. six seconds before the end of the fight.

Jozef Lohyňa also performed very well at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , even if he narrowly missed the medal ranks with a fifth place. He won there over Alcide Legrand , France and Nicolae Ghiță from Romania, then lost to Elmadi Schabrailow from the Commonwealth of Independent States with 7: 8 points, then defeated Rachmat Sukra Sofiadi from Bulgaria, lost clearly against Hans Gstöttner from the German team (1 : 5) on points and fought for fifth place with a superior 10-0 victory over Sebahattin Öztürk from Turkey.

With a fourth place at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , where he started for Slovakia, he missed the medal ranks in the light heavyweight division even closer than in 1992. In Atlanta he defeated Tatsuo Kawai, Japan, Bayan Monchiin Gantogtoch , Mongolia and Kim Ik-hee , South Korea, then lost to Macharbek Chadarzew , Russia quite clearly on points (1: 7), defeated Victor Kodei, Nigeria and lost the fight for the Olympic bronze medal against Eldari Luka Kurtanidze from Georgia on points (0: 5).

At the European Championships, Jozef Lohyňa won a total of five medals. He was very close to the title at the European Wrestling Championships in Ankara in 1989 . He was there in the middleweight division in the final Necmi Gençalp from Turkey . Two wrestlers who didn't go together at all in their fighting style. So it happened that both wrestlers after the end of the fight, which ended 0-0, were disqualified for passivity and both were placed in second place. A European title was not awarded this year.

Jozef Lohyňa won bronze medals at European Championships in 1986 in Piraeus , where he defeated Reiner Trik with 8: 1 points, in 1987 in Veliko Tarnowo , Bulgaria , in Rome in 1994 and in Bratislava in 1998 , where he was defeated by the outstanding Buwaissar Saitijew from Russia and himself secured the bronze medal by a narrow 3-2 point win over Ali Özen from Turkey.

In 1983 Jozef Lohyňa also became vice world champion in the juniors (Espoirs) in Anaheim / USA, although he had lost there in his pool against Reiner Trik.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1981	3.	International tournament in Bratislava	Welter	behind Martin Knosp , Federal Republic of Germany and Radschunat, GDR
1983	4th	EM in Budapest	medium	behind Reşit Karabacak , Turkey, Efraim Kamberow , Bulgaria and Giorgi Makassarishvili , Georgia
1983	2.	Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Anaheim / USA	medium	behind Dumitru Diprian, Romania, in front of Aslanbek Bissultanow , Soviet Union
1983	4th	World Cup in Kiev	medium	behind Taimuras Dzgojew , Soviet Union, Dzewegiin Düwtschin , Mongolia and Efraim Kamberow, before Reşit Karabacak
1984	2.	International tournament in Clermont-Ferrand	medium	behind Mark Schultz , USA, in front of Adolf Seger , Federal Republic of Germany, Chris Rinke, Canada and Peter Syring , GDR
1984	9.	EM in Jönköping	medium	Winner: Efraim Kamberow in front of Reiner Trik, Federal Republic of Germany and Luchman Dschabrailow, Moldova
1984	1.	"Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig	medium	in front of Hans-Peter Franz, GDR, Orlando Hernández, Cuba, Leszek Ciota, Poland and Detlef John, GDR
1985	1.	"Roger-Coulon" memorial in Clermont-Ferrand	medium	before Chris Rinke, Alexander Tambowzew and Leszek Ciota
1985	4th	EM in Leipzig	medium	after victories over Necmi Gençalp , Turkey, Wesko Manow, Bulgaria, Fodorea, Romania and Joseppino Masidda, France and defeats against Juri Vorobjow , Soviet Union and Leszek Ciota , Poland
1985	11.	World Cup in Budapest	medium	Winner: Mark Schultz , USA ahead of Alexandar Nanew , Bulgaria and Alexander Tambovzew , Soviet Union
1986	1.	ČSSR Grand Prix in Prague	medium	before Polomarjow, Soviet Union and Hans-Peter Franz , GDR
1986	3.	EM in Piraeus	medium	behind Alexandar Nanew and Wagab Kasibekow, Soviet Union
1986	3.	German Grand Prix in Freiburg	medium	behind Wesko Manow, Bulgaria and Hans-Peter Franz
1986	3.	World Cup in Budapest	medium	behind Vladimir Modosjan , Soviet Union and Alexandar Nanew, in front of Reiner Trik
1987	2.	German Grand Prix in Aschaffenburg	medium	behind Juri Vorobjow, in front of Necmi Gençalp and Reiner Trik
1987	3.	EM in Veliko Tarnovo	medium	behind Alexandar Nanew and Vladimir Modosjan, ahead of Gheorghe Mîţu, Romania and Necmi Gençalp
1988	1.	FILA Grand Prix Gala in Budapest	medium	before László Dvorák and József Märtz, both Hungarians
1988	1.	CSSR Grand Prix in Prague	medium	before Chris Rinke and Jouni Ilomäki, Finland
1988	1.	International tournament in Palermo	medium	before Dimitar Todorow, Bulgaria and Reiner Trik
1988	5.	EM in Manchester	medium	before László Dvorák, Hans Gstöttner , GDR, Alexandar Nanew and Andrzej Radomski , Poland
1988	bronze	OS in Seoul	medium	after victory over Jollien, Switzerland, defeat against Han Myung-woo, South Korea, victories over Chris Rinke, Canada, Puntsagiin Süchbat , Mongolia, Ito, Japan and Alexander Tambovzew
1989	1.	German Grand Prix in Dortmund	medium	before Alcide Legrand , France, Reiner Trik and Klaus Riesterer, both Germany
1989	2.	EM in Ankara	medium	together with Necmi Gençalp, before Elmadi Schabrailow , Soviet Union and Gheorghe Mîţu
1989	5.	World Cup in Martigny / Switzerland	medium	behind Elmadi Schabrailow, Melvin Douglas , USA, Alcide Legrand and Necmi Gençalp
1990	6th	German Grand Prix in Saarbrücken	medium	Winner: Rachmat Sukra Sofiadi ahead of Hans Gstöttner and Alcide Legrand
1990	1.	World Cup in Tokyo	medium	before Royce Alger, USA, Puntsagiin Süchbat and Awtandil Gogolishwili, Soviet Union
1991	2.	World Cup in Varna	medium	behind Kevin Jackson, USA, in front of Sebahattin Öztürk and Rasul Katinovasov , Soviet Union
1992	6th	German Grand Prix in Leipzig	medium	Winner: Hans Gstöttner ahead of Schamid Bergijew, Russia and Nicolae Ghiță, Romania
1992	5.	OS in Barcelona	medium	after victories over Alcide Legrand and Nicolae Ghiță, a defeat against Elmadi Schabrailow, a victory over Rachmat Sukra Sofiadi, a defeat against Hans Gstöttner and a victory over Sebahattin Öztürk
1993	1.	Slovak Grand Prix in Bratislava	Semi-difficult	before Detlef John and Ingo Manz
1994	3.	EM in Rome	Semi-difficult	behind Soslan Frajew , Russia and Wladimir Matuschenko, Belarus, in front of Robert Kostecki, Poland
1994	2.	German Grand Prix in Wiesental	Semi-difficult	behind Aljaksandr Sauko , Belarus, in front of Ingo Manz, Germany
1994	4th	World Cup in Istanbul	Semi-difficult	behind Rasoul Khadem , Iran, Macharbek Chadarzew , Russia and Melvin Douglas
1995	4th	EM in Friborg / Switzerland	Semi-difficult	behind Macharbek Chadarzew, Eldari Luka Kurtanidze , Georgia and Sagid Murtasalijew , Ukraine
1995	1.	German Grand Prix in Leipzig	Semi-difficult	before Ludwig Schneider, Germany and Igors Samušonoks, Latvia
1995	6th	World Cup in Atlanta	Semi-difficult	Winner: Rasoul Khadem ahead of Macharbek Chadarzew and Melvin Douglas
1996	4th	OS in Atlanta	Semi-difficult	after victories over Tatsuo Kawai, Japan, Bajanmönchiin Gantogtoch , Mongolia and Kim Ik-hee, South Korea, a defeat against Macharbek Chadarzew, a victory over Victor Kodei, Nigeria and a defeat against Eldari Luka Kurtanidze
1998	3.	EM in Bratislava	medium	after victories over Michał Seweryn Stanisławski, Poland and Ali Özen, Turkey, a defeat against Buwaissar Saitijew , Russia and victories over Plamen Penew, Bulgaria and Ali Özen

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Average weight, up to 1996 up to 82 kg, from 1997 to 2001 up to 85 kg, light heavy weight, up to 1996 up to 90 kg body weight

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Foeldeak Wrestling Database website

Web links

• Jozef Lohyňa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )