Károly Bajkó

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Károly Bajkó (born August 1, 1944 in Békés , † June 9, 1997 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian wrestler . He won bronze medals at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics .

Career

Károly Bajkó started wrestling at Csepel SC in 1958 . He was a member of this club until 1966. In 1967 he moved to Vasas Budapest. He soon performed so well that he was accepted into the Hungarian national wrestling team at the age of 19 in 1963. The then head coach of the Hungarian wrestler Matura considered him a great talent and encouraged him a lot.

As early as 1964 he was sent to the Olympic Games in Tokyo . He wrestled free style welterweight and finished 11th with one win and two losses. At the 1965 World Championships in Manchester , he achieved two welterweight victories, including the one over the Bulgarian Petko Dermendschiew was very notable. He came in 8th place in Manchester. A year later he came in 7th place in the free style welterweight championship in Karlsruhe . He won thereby u. a. against Jürgen Wiechmann from Leipzig, but was still defeated by the top wrestlers Mahmut Atalay from Turkey and Juri Schakmuradow from the Soviet Union.

The first medal at an international championship won Károly Bajkó at the European Championships in 1967 in Istanbul in the free style welterweight. He won four fights there and defeated u. a. also Martin Heinze from Halle (Saale), but lost again to Atalay and Schakmuradow. At the World Cup in New Delhi that year, however, he disappointed. He lost his two free-style fights against Hari Ram Singh from India and Tatsuo Sasaki from Japan and ended up in 12th place.

At the European Championships in Västerås in 1968 , he started for the first time at an international championship in Greco-Roman style. Although he managed to win there over Jimmy Martinetti from Switzerland, but after a draw against Piotr Starczynski from Poland he was defeated by Rudolf Vesper from Rostock and only came in 13th place in the welterweight division. Things went much better for him at the 1968 European Championships in Skopje in free style. He won there u. a. over the Soviet world-class athlete Guliko Sagaradze , but lost in the fight for the European title against Daniel Robin from France.

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , Károly Bajkó also started in both styles. Surprisingly, he won it in the welterweight in Greco-Roman style with victories over Pentti Salo from Finland a . Daniel Alba from Mexico, a draw against Rudolf Vesper and a defeat against Daniel Robin the bronze medal . In the free style he did not get along so well, because after two wins and two defeats he was eliminated and only came in 11th place.

1969 was Károly Bajkó in Sofia in the free style in middleweight again vice European champion . After three wins he wrestled against the strong Vasile Iorga from Romania and Iwan Iliew from Bulgaria and was defeated by Yuri Shakmuradow. He achieved the same result at the European Championships in Berlin in 1970 , but in the light heavyweight division. In the decisive fights for the medals he fought against Peter Döring from Leipzig and was defeated by the Soviet wrestler Boris Gurewitsch .

He achieved his last major success at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. He won there after victories over Makoto Konada, Japan, Étienne Martinetti from Switzerland, Mehmet Güclü from Turkey a. Ernst Knoll from the Federal Republic of Germany, a draw against Reza Hoseinikhormai from Iran and a defeat against Gennadi Strachow from the Soviet Union again won a bronze medal .

Károly Bajkó started at the international championships until 1974, but could no longer achieve good placements. In his career, however, it is particularly noteworthy that he won a medal in Greco-Roman style and in free style at two Olympic Games. After the wrestlers began specializing in just one style, which began around 1960, only very few wrestlers managed to do so.

After finishing his active career, Károly Bajkó worked for many years as a wrestling trainer at Vasas Budapest. He died at the age of just 53.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, GR = Greco-Roman style, We = welterweight, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, back then up to 78 kg, 82 kg and 90 kg body weight )

Hungarian championships

Károly Bajkó was a total of nine times Hungarian master in both styles.

literature

  • Athletics magazine from 1964 to 1974
  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships , FILA, 1976

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Bajkó, Károly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Békés
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1997
Place of death Budapest