Miklós Szilvási

Bust of Miklós Szilvási

The grave of Miklós Szilvási in the Budapest cemetery Új köztemető

Miklós Szilvási (born December 5, 1925 in Marianosztra , † May 24, 1969 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian wrestler . He was an Olympic champion in 1952 in the Greco-Roman style welterweight.

Career

Miklós Szilvási started wrestling at the Budapesti Vasutas Sport Club (BVSC) in 1942 . He concentrated primarily on the Greco-Roman style, but was also at home in the free style. In 1946 he was the first Hungarian master in the Greco-Roman style in the lightweight. Shortly after the war , he joined the police in Budapest. While still on duty, he suffered a serious gunshot wound in one leg while on duty. After a long recovery period he was able to wrestle again in 1947 and was again Hungarian welterweight champion that year. In that year he was also accepted into the Hungarian national wrestling team, where Mihály Matura was a coach. In the course of his career he also started for other wrestling clubs in Budapest such as Újpest Dózsa , Ferencváros Budapest and Dózsa Sport Egyesület .

In 1947, Miklós Szilvási's international wrestling career began. He started at the European Championships in the Greco-Roman style in Prague and came in a good 4th place behind Yaşar Doğu from Turkey, Gösta Andersson , Sweden and Nikolai Kotscharski , Soviet Union.

In 1948 he competed in the Olympic Games for the first time. In London he wrestled welterweight in Greco-Roman style. He won there five times and was only defeated in the final against Gösta Andersson, who became Olympic champion before him. However, winning the silver medal was a great success for Miklós Szilvási.

At the 1950 World Cup in Stockholm he won two fights, but lost to Gösta Andersson and the surprise man Matti Siimanainen from Finland, who was world champion ahead of Celal Atik from Turkey and Andersson. Miklós Szilvási came in 5th place.

At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , Miklós Szilvási had a great success. He was welterweight, Greco-Roman style, Olympic champion with five wins. In the decisive battle for the gold medal , he defeated Gösta Andersson. Before that, he had also won against the German Anton Mackowiak , among others .

At the 1953 World Cup in Naples , he won his last medal at an international championship. He defeated the strong wrestlers Per Berlin from Sweden, Marin Belușica from Romania and Franco Benedetti from Italy. In the final he could not avoid a defeat against the Soviet wrestler Georgi Chatvorjan . He took 2nd place.

At the 1955 World Cup in Karlsruhe , Miklós Szilvási won over Vladislav Sekal from Czechoslovakia and Oddvar Vargset from Norway on points and then had to retire after a defeat by Vladimir Manejew from the USSR because of five missing points. He only came in 9th place in the final bill. He was then also at the start of the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne . With only one win over the American Holt, he came in 7th place in Melbourne with 12 participants.

Then he ended his international wrestling career. He then worked as a wrestler trainer in Budapest, but died in 1969 at the age of 43.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = freestyle, Le = lightweight, We = welterweight, Mi = middleweight, back then up to 67 kg, 73 kg and 79 kg Body weight)

• 1947, 4th place , EM in Prague , GR, We, with victories over Ernst Gogel, Switzerland, Georgios Petmezas, Greece and Luigi Rigamonti, Italy and defeats against Matti Siimanainen , Finland and Nikolai Kotscharski , USSR;
• 1948, silver medal , OS in London , GR, We, with victories over J. Dobbelaere, Belgium, Josef Schmidt, Austria, René Chesneau , France, Veikko Mannikoe, Finland a. Henrik Larsen, Denmark and a loss to Gösta Andersson , Sweden;
• 1950, 5th place , World Championships in Helsinki , GR, We, with victories over Gunnar Henningsen, Denmark a. René Chesneau et al. Defeats against Gösta Andersson u. Matti Siimanainen;
• 1951, 2nd place , World Youth Festival in Berlin (East), GR, We, behind Wladimir Jakowljew, USSR a. before Marin Belușica , Romania;
• 1952, gold medal , OS in Helsinki , GR, We, with victories over Mahmoud Osman, Egypt, Haakon Olsen, Norway, Anton Mackowiak , Germany, Khalil Taha, Lebanon and Gösta Andersson;
• 1953, 2nd place , World Youth Festival in Bucharest , GR, We, behind Georgi Chatvorjan , USSR a. before Gunnar Henningsen;
• 1953, 2nd place , World Cup in Naples , GR, We, with victories over Gottfried Anglberger, Austria, Per Berlin , Sweden, Gunnar Henningsen, Franco Benedetti , Italy a. Marin Belușica u. a loss to Georgi Chatvorjan;
• 1955, 9th place , World Championship in Karlsruhe , GR, We, with victories over Vladislav Sekal , Czechoslovakia and Oddvar Vargset , Norway a. a loss to Vladimir Maneyev , USSR;
• 1956, 1st place , Adria-Cup in Opatija , GR, We, ahead of Stevan Horvat , Yugoslavia and Josef Knebel, Germany;
• 1956, 6th place , World Cup in Istanbul , GR, We, with victories over Heribert Hofmann , FRG and Gian-Carlo Palmieri, Italy a. Defeats against Vladimir Manejew a. Mithat Bayrak , Turkey;
• 1956, 7th place , OS in Melbourne , GR, We, with a win over James Jay Holt, USA and losses to Mithat Bayrak u. Veikko Rantanen , Finland;
• 1957, 2nd place , Adria Cup in Opatija, GR, Wed, behind Hans Antonsson , Sweden a. before Branislav Simić , Yugoslavia

Hungarian championships

Miklós Szilvási won the following Hungarian championships:

• GR: 1946, Le, 1947, We, 1949, We, 1950, We, 1951, We, 1952, We, 1953, We u. 1957, Wed
• F: 1948, We, 1952, Wed u. 1953, We

literature

• Athletics magazine from 1948 to 1957

Web links

Commons : Miklós Szilvási  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile of Miklós Szilvási at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Miklós Szilvási in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• The final resting place of Miklós Szilvási