László Sillai

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László Sillai (born June 2, 1943 in Darnózseli , Győr-Moson-Sopron County , † June 21, 2007 ) was a Hungarian wrestler . He was world champion in 1967 in the Greco-Roman style middleweight division.

Career

László Sillai started wrestling as a teenager in his hometown Győr . He was a member of Győri Dózsa SE and worked exclusively in the Greco-Roman style. In 1963, at the age of 20, he was the first Hungarian light heavyweight champion. On the international wrestling mat, the veterans György Gurics and Ferenc Kiss were initially preferred to him.

In 1966 he played his first international championship. But he came at the European Championships in Essen in the middleweight division with only one win and two defeats only in 13th place. At the European Championships in Minsk in 1967 , where he started again in the middleweight division, he defeated the Austrian Franz Pötsch and fought against Stig Persson from Sweden and Wenko Zinzarow from Bulgaria , but had to retire from Czechoslovakia after a defeat against Jiří Kormaník and came to 8th place.

All the more surprising was therefore the middleweight title win at the 1967 World Cup in Bucharest . He wrestled there after a bye in the first round against Sven Allan Olsson from Sweden and Franz Pötsch and won against Jiří Kormaník and Wenko Zinzarow. He won the title because of the curious fact that after 5 rounds all wrestlers had 6 or more missing points and were therefore actually eliminated. Therefore, the champion was determined by the failure points that had the respective wrestlers after the fifth round and here László Sillai stand with 6 points mis best since and was therefore before Valentin Olenik from the USSR and Wacław Orłowski from Poland World Champion .

At the European Championships in Västerås in 1968 he won a. a. against the Köllerbacher Werner Hoppe on points and fought against Lothar Metz from Rostock in a draw. But he did not win a medal, as he also fought a draw against the Swede Bertil Nyström and even lost against Petar Krumow from Bulgaria. But he still achieved a very good 5th place. At the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968 he had no luck, because he lost his two fights against Petar Krumow and Czesław Kwieciński from Poland and only reached 13th place.

In 1970 László Sillai achieved excellent placements again with 4th place at the European Championships in Berlin and 5th place at the World Championships in Edmonton . In both championships he failed to Czesław Kwieciński and Josip Čorak from Yugoslavia , to which he lost each time.

In the meantime he had grown up in Hungary in Csaba Hegeds, an invincible competitor whom he could not defeat. His international wrestling career was drawing to a close. Only at the European Championships in 1972 in Katowice he was again at the start in the light heavyweight division, but only finished 12th there.

After the end of his time as an active wrestler, László Sillai worked at Győri Dózsa SE as a trainer and sports official.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, at that time up to 87 kg or 90 kg body weight)

Hungarian championships

László Sillai was in 1963, 1965, 1966 and 1968 Hungarian light heavyweight champion in the Greco-Roman style.

swell

  • Athletics magazine from 1966 to 1972,
  • Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976,

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personal data
SURNAME Sillai, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Darnózseli , Győr-Moson-Sopron county
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 2007