Juha Ahokas

Juha Ahokas (born September 18, 1969 in Kokkola ) is a former Finnish wrestler in the Greco-Roman style . Ahokas competed in the class up to 120 kg and is 1.89 meters tall. He wrestled for the Nurmon Jymy club , before that for Ilmajoen Kisailijat . Juha Ahokas was trained by Risto Ahokas . After his long career he works as a referee for the world wrestling association FILA .

Competition balance (overview)

year	competition	place	space	Style	Weight class
1987	Junior European Championships	Katowice	6th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1988	U20 European Championships	Walbrzych	6th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1989	European championships	Oulu	6th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1991	World championships	Varna	11	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1992	European championships	Copenhagen	4th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1992	Olympic Summer Games	Barcelona	7th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1993	Nordic Championship	Herning	2	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1993	World cup	Heinola	1	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1994	European championships	Athens	10	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1994	World championships	Tampere	18th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1995	European championships	Besançon	4th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1995	World championships	Prague	4th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1996	European championships	Colorado Springs	4th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1996	Olympic Summer Games	Atlanta	14th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1997	European championships	Kouvola	2	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1997	Baltic Games	Siauliai	4th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1997	World championships	Wroclaw	7th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1998	FILA tournament	Nikea	1	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1998	European championships	Minsk	7th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
1998	World championships	Gävle	21st	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
2001	European championships	Istanbul	4th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
2001	World championships	Patras	14th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
2002	European championships	Seinäjoki	3	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
2002	World championships	Moscow	15th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
2003	European championships	Belgrade	1	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
2003	World championships	Créteil	7th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
2004	Olympic Summer Games	Athens	17th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
2005	World championships	Budapest	7th	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight
2006	European championships	Moscow	2	Greco-Roman	Super heavyweight

International success

Ahokas took part especially in the European Championships with success. The 2003 gold medal, the 1997 and 2006 silver medals and the 2002 bronze medal are probably among his best results. In detail, he performed at various championships (selection) as follows:

• 1992, 4th place , EM in Copenhagen , GR, Ssg, behind Alexander Karelin , Ioan Grigoraș , Romania and György Kekes , Hungary
• 1993, 2nd place , Nordic Championships in Herning , GR, Ssg, behind Tomas Johansson and in front of Madis Ounapuu , Estonia
• 1993, 1st place , World Cup, GR, Ssg, László Klauz , Hungary and Matt Ghaffari , USA
• 1995, 4th place , EM in Besançon , GR, Ssg, behind Alexander Karelin, Saban Donat , Turkey and Sergei Mureiko , Moldova
• 1995, 4th place , World Championships in Prague , GR, Ssg, behind Karelin, Sergei Mureiko and Matt Ghaffari
• 1996, 4th place , EM in Budapest , GR, Ssg, behind Karelin, Piotr Kotok and Sergei Mureiko and in front of René Schiekel , Germany
• 1997, 2nd place , EM in Kouvola , GR, Ssg, with victories over Mirian Giorgadse , Georgia , Grzegorz Pieronkiewic , Poland and Georgi Saldadze , Ukraine and a defeat against Sergei Mureiko, Moldova
• 1997, 4th place , Baltic Games in Šiauliai , behind Sergei Silitsch , Dimitry Debelka , both Belarus and Alexei Kolesnikow , Russia
• 2001, 4th place , EM in Istanbul, GR, Ssg, behind Mihály Deák Bárdos , Hungary, Fatih Bakir, Turkey and Sergei Mureiko
• 2002, 3rd place , EM in Seinäjoki , GR, Ssg, with victories over David Vála , Czech Republic , Josip Matkovic , Croatia and Yuori Evseytschik , Israel and one defeat against Yuri Patrikejew , Russia
• 2003, 1st place , EM in Belgrade , GR, Ssg, with victories over Eddy Bengtsson, Giuseppe Guinta , Italy , Roe Kleive , Norway , Xenofon Koutsioubas , Greece and Mihály Deák Bárdos
• 2006, 2nd place , EM in Moscow, GR, Ssg, with victories over Rocco Ficara , Italy, Marek Mikulski , Poland and Chassan Barojew and a defeat against İsmail Güzel , Turkey

Finnish championships

• 1988, 3rd place , GR, up to 100 kg, behind Heikki Jantunen and Jukka Hellgren
• 1989, 1st place , GR, up to 130 kg, ahead of Veli-Matti Vaarala and Pentti Mäkelä
• 1990, 1st place , GR, up to 130 kg, ahead of Veli-Matti Vaarala and Mika Vouri
• 1992, 1st place , GR, up to 130 kg, ahead of Keijo Manni and Heikki Stark
• 1993, 1st place , GR, up to 130 kg, ahead of Pekka Moliis and Janne Virtanen
• 1994, 1st place , GR, up to 130 kg, ahead of Jukka Hellgren and Janne Virtanen
• 1995, 1st place , GR, up to 130 kg, ahead of Veli-Matti Vaarala and Janne Virtanen
• 1996, 1st place , GR, up to 130 kg, ahead of Veli-Matti Vaarala and Janne Virtanen
• 1997, 1st place , GR, up to 125 kg, ahead of Janne Virtanen and Veli-Matti Vaarala
• 1998, 1st place , GR, up to 130 kg, ahead of Jari Kortesmäki and Kari Lehtinen
• 2001, 1st place , GR, up to 130 kg, ahead of Jani Manni and Tuomas Kilpiniemi
• 2002, 1st place , GR, up to 125 kg, ahead of Tuomas Kilipniemi and Risto Jeronen
• 2003, 1st place , GR, up to 120 kg, ahead of Mikko Ylä-Poikelus and Jarmo Pöyry
• 2004, 1st place , GR, up to 120 kg, ahead of Mikko Ylä-Poikelus and Martti Mäki-Hakola
• 2005, 1st place , GR, up to 120 kg, ahead of Mikko Ylä-Poikelus and Jani Manni
• 2006, 1st place , GR, up to 120 kg, ahead of Mikko Ylä-Poikelus and Rauli Kärpänen
• 2007, 5th place , GR, up to 120 kg, behind Juha Matti-Eskola, Jari Kauppinen, Hannu Kulmala and Heikki Haapa-Aho

Web links

• Profile of Juha Ahokas at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Juha Ahokas in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Profile ( Memento from June 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Swedish)