Milan Nenadić

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Milan Nenadić

Milan Nenadić (born August 12, 1943 in Drenorcu near Petrinje ) is a former Yugoslav wrestler . He was the winner of the bronze medal at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich in the Greco-Roman style middleweight division.

Career

Milan Nenadić began wrestling as a teenager at the RK Radnički Petrinje sports club. He was one of the many wrestlers from Vojvodina , who at that time made up the majority of the wrestlers in the Yugoslav national relay. Nenadić focused on the Greco-Roman. Style and had reached the Yugoslav top class in Greco-Roman style by the mid-1960s. He won his first Yugoslav championship title in 1967 in the welterweight division, which was to be followed by five more. Nenadić made his debut in international championships at the 1965 World Championships in Tampere, Finland . There he came in the welterweight division with two wins and one draw on an excellent 5th place.

The following year he won at the European Championships in Essen the 8th Place and in the World Championship in Toledo ( Ohio ) again a good 5th place in the welterweight division, where he after two wins and a draw only on the outstanding multiple Soviet world champion Viktor Igumenow failed .

Nenadić celebrated his first major success at the 1968 European Championships in Västerås . In the welterweight division he won four fights and became vice European champion. At the Olympic Games of the same year in Mexico City , he surprisingly lost in his fourth fight against Adam Ostrowski from Poland and therefore only reached 7th place.

After a weight class reallocation by the international wrestling association FILA, Nenadić started in the middleweight division in 1969. In this new class he had an excellent debut at the World Championships, which took place in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in March , because he won the bronze medal there. Most of the strong wrestlers from the Eastern Bloc countries did not take part in the European Championship in Modena in 1969 because the Italian government had banned the GDR flag from being hoisted. Yugoslavia started, however, and Nenadić became European champions in a superior style .

That this success was no coincidence because of the somewhat weaker line-up, he then proved in 1970 when he was again European middleweight champion at the European Championships in Berlin (East), this time with all the stars. At the 1970 World Championships in Edmonton , Canada , he won the bronze medal in the middleweight division.

In 1972 Nenadić then also won an Olympic medal at the Olympic Games in Munich . It was the bronze one. However, he had no chance of winning against the world-class wrestlers Anatoli Nasarenko from the Soviet Union and Csaba Hegedűs from Hungary , who were then dominant in this weight class .

In 1973 and 1974 Nenadić only started at the World Championships because he had grown up a tough opponent in Momir Petković in Yugoslavia who also claimed starting places. In 1973 in Tehran Nenadić was again in excellent shape and became vice world champion and in 1974 he took an excellent 4th place in Katowice , just missing another medal.

In 1975, Milan Nenadić withdrew from international competition.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, We = welterweight, Wed = middleweight, back then up to 78 kg or 82 kg body weight)

Yugoslav championships

Milan Nenadić was Yugoslav champion in Greco-Roman in 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973 and 1975. World terweight or middleweight style.

swell

  • 1) Athletics magazine from 1965 to 1975,
  • 2) Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA , 1976

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personal data
SURNAME Nenadić, Milan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Drenorcu at Petrinje