Marek Garmulewicz

Marek Robert Garmulewicz (born January 22, 1968 in Mozgawa ) is a former Polish wrestler . He was European heavyweight champion in 1994, 1996 and 2000 and vice- world heavyweight champion in 1998 , both in free style.

Career

Marek Garmulewicz began wrestling as a teenager in 1978. He focused on the free style and was mainly trained by Zygmunt Kret. He belonged to the wrestling clubs ZKS Megarolt Koszalin and ZKS Slawie-Ruda Śląska . Later he also wrestled for several years at KSV Köllerbach in the German Bundesliga. Marek Garmulewicz was 1.88 meters tall and grew from light heavyweight to heavyweight in the course of his career. He completed a coaching education and was after the end of his career coach in the Polish Wrestling Association.

His first start at an international championship, he completed in 1988. He took part in the Junior European Championships (age group Espoirs) in Wałbrzych that year and finished 7th in the light heavyweight division. With the seniors he started for the first time in 1991 at an international championship. He came in Stuttgart in the light heavyweight division on 7th place. From this point on, he took part in almost all world and European championships every year and also competed at the Olympic Games in 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004.

He celebrated his first major success in 1994. That year he was European heavyweight champion in Rome ahead of Heiko Balz from Germany and Ali Kayalı from Turkey. He won his second European title in Budapest in 1996, again in the heavyweight division. He relegated Milan Mazáč , Slovakia, and David Musuľbes from Russia to the places. In 2000 he became European champion for the third time. In Budapest he won it in the super heavyweight division, where he beat David Musuľbes on points in the final.

At world championships he was able to advance into the medal ranks twice. In 1998 he was runner-up in the light heavyweight division in Tehran. He defeated Ba Tumengke, China, Islam Bairamukow , Kazakhstan, and Eldari Luka Kurtanidze , Georgia. In the final he lost to Abbas Jadidi from Iran. In 1999 he won in Ankara in the same weight class with victories over Jurijs Janovic, Lithuania, Dean Ryan Schmeichel, Canada, Zoltán Farkas , Hungary, and Eldari Luka Kurtanidse, one defeat against Alireza Heidari , Iran, and another win over Aftandil Xanthopoulos , Greece , a bronze medal.

Marek Garmulewicz, however, did not win any medals when he took part in four Olympic Games. In 2000, however, he missed the medal ranks at the Olympic Games in Sydney in the light heavyweight division with victories over Dean Ryan Schmeichel, Gabriel Szerda, Australia, and Aljaksandr Schamarau, Belarus, and defeats against Islam Bairamukow and Eldari Luka Kurtanidze with a 4th place . Also at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, he was relatively close to winning a medal with a 5th place. He won there in the heavyweight division over Ben Vincent, Australia, and Oleg Ladik, Canada, lost to Abbas Jadidi and Sjarhej Kawaleuski , Belarus, and won over Konstantin Alexandrow, Kyrgyzstan.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1988	7th	Junior European Championship in Walbrzych	Semi-difficult	Winner: Jambulat Tedejew , USSR ahead of Weselin Christow, Bulgaria and Heiko Balz , Germany
1991	7th	EM in Stuttgart	Semi-difficult	Winner: Macharbek Chadarzew , USSR ahead of Gábor Tóth , Hungary and Efraim Kamberow , Turkey
1991	9.	World Cup in Varna	Semi-difficult	Winner: Macharbek Chadarzew ahead of Heraklis Deskoulidis , Greece and Roberto Limonta Vargas , Cuba
1992	9.	EM in Kaposvár	Semi-difficult	Winner: Macharbek Chadarzew ahead of Gabor Toth and Kenan Şimşek , Turkey
1992	7th	OS in Barcelona	Semi-difficult	after a win over Daniel Sanchez, Puerto Rico, defeats against Gábor Tóth and Kenan Şimşek and a win over Renato Lombardi, Italy
1993	5.	EM in Istanbul	Heavy	behind Arawat Sabejew , Germany, Oleksij Netschypurenko , Ukraine, Ali Kayalı , Turkey and Krassimir Kotschew , Bulgaria
1994	1.	EM in Rome	Heavy	before Heiko Balz, Ali Kayalı and Oleksij Netschypurenko
1994	7th	World Cup in Istanbul	Heavy	Winner: Arawat Sabeev ahead of Dawud Magomedow , Azerbaijan, David Musuľbes , Russia and Oleksij Netschypurenko
1995	9.	EM in Friborg / Switzerland	Heavy	Winner: David Musuľbes ahead of Milan Mazáč , Slovakia, Arawat Sabejew and Arvi Aavik , Estonia
1995	12.	World Cup in Atlanta	Heavy	Winner: Kurt Angle , USA ahead of Arawat Sabejew and Abbas Jadidi , Iran
1996	1.	EM in Budapest	Heavy	before Milan Mazáč, David Musuľbes and Sjarhej Kawaleuski, Belarus
1996	5.	OS in Atlanta	Heavy	after victories over Ben Vincent, Australia and Oleg Ladik, Canada, defeats against Abbas Jadidi and Sjarhej Kawaleuski and a victory over Konstantin Alexandrow, Kyrgyzstan
1997	2.	EM in Warsaw	Semi-difficult	behind Eldari Luka Kurtanidze , Georgia, in front of Arawat Sabeev and Aslan Chagurow, Russia
1997	7th	World Cup in Krasnoyarsk	Semi-difficult	after a victory over Hiroshi Kosuge, Japan, a defeat against Arawat Sabejew, victories over Kim Tae-ho, South Korea and Gong Xu, China and a defeat against Islam Bairamukow , Kazakhstan
1998	2.	EM in Bratislava	Semi-difficult	after victories over Ahmet Doğu , Turkey, Ricardas Pauliakonis, Lithuania and Heiko Balz and a defeat against Eldari Luka Kurtanidze
1998	2.	World Cup in Tehran	Semi-difficult	after victories over Ba Tumengke, China, Islam Bairamukow and Eldari Luka Kurtanidze and a defeat against Abbas Jadidi
1998	1.	FILA Five Continents Cup in Sydney	Heavy	before Seitaro Yoshida, Japan and Tomasz Szewczyk, Poland
1999	3.	World Cup in Ankara	Semi-difficult	after victories over Jurijs Janovic, Lithuania, Dean Ryan Schmeichel, Canada, Zoltán Farkas, Hungary and Eldari Luka Kurtanidse, a defeat against Alireza Heidari, Iran and a victory over Aftandil Xanthopoulos , Greece
2000	1.	EM in Budapest	Heavy	after victories over Chassan Bejtula, Bulgaria, Francesco Miano-Petta, Italy, Jurij Schobitko, Ukraine, Rezep Aşkabaliyev, Azerbaijan and David Musuľbes
2000	4th	OS in Sydney	Semi-difficult	after victories over Dean Ryan Schmeichel, Gabriel Szerda, Australia and Aljaksandr Schamarau, Belarus and defeats against Islam Bairamukow and Eldari Luka Kurtanidze
2001	13.	World Cup in Sofia	Heavy	after a loss to Aydın Polatçı , Turkey and a victory over Mirko Silian, Switzerland
2002	7th	EM in Baku	Heavy	after defeating Mohammad Qerayev, Azerbaijan and losing to Bodjidar Boyajiev, Bulgaria
2002	12.	World Cup in Tehran	Heavy	after defeating E Yube, China and losing to Dawit Otiashvili , Georgia
2003	12.	EM in Riga	Heavy	after losing to David Musuľbes and Sven Thiele , Germany
2004	4th	Olympic qualification tournament in Bratislava	Heavy	behind Alexis Rodríguez Valera , Cuba, Kuramagomed Kuramagomedow , Russia and Francesco Miano-Petta
2004	6th	German Grand Prix in Leipzig	Heavy	Winner: Fardin Masoumi Valadi , Iran ahead of Rares Daniel Chintojan, Romania and Sven Thiele
2004	11.	OS in Athens	Heavy	after a loss to Artur Taymazov , Uzbekistan and a win over Cheema Palwinder Singh, India

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Lightweight, up to 1996 up to 90 kg, from 1997 to 2001 up to 97 kg, heavyweight, up to 1996 up to 100 kg, from 1997 to 2001 up to 130 kg, since 2002 up to 120 kg, super heavyweight, up to 1996 up to 130 kg, then abolished

literature

• Trade journal Der Ringer

Web links

• Marek Garmulewicz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• "Foeldeak Wrestling Database" website