Petr Kment

Petr Kment

Petr Kment (born August 20, 1942 in Prague - † August 22, 2013 ) was a Czechoslovakian wrestler . He was the winner of the bronze medal at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City and European champion in 1968 in Västerås in the Greco-Roman heavyweight division.

Career

Petr Kment began as a teenager in Prague with the rings . Soon after starting his career, he became a member of the Rudá Hvězda Prague Police Sports Club . Petr developed into an outstanding heavyweight in the Greco-Roman style, who successfully continued the long tradition of outstanding Czechoslovak heavyweight wrestlers, starting with Gustav Frištenský via Josef Urban , Josef Klapuch , Josef Růžička and Bohumil Kubát . As early as 1961, Petr was ready to be used in international battles. He succeeded against the strong Bulgarian Radoslaw Kasabow and against the Soviet wrestler Sharov and others. Khabalishvili each a tie. In 1964 it was used for the first time at an international championship, which was the same as the Olympic Games in Tokyo . Petr fought superbly there and celebrated a victory over the multiple world champion Hamit Kaplan from Turkey in his first fight . However, he was defeated by István Kozma from Hungary, who dominated the heavyweight scene at the time, and Anatoli Roschtschin from the USSR, and finished in 4th place. At the next five international championships, Petr won the bronze medal every time. There were the 1965 World Championships in Tampere , the 1966 European Championships in Essen , the 1966 World Championships in Toledo / USA , the 1967 European Championships in Minsk and the 1967 World Championships in Bucharest . At each of these championships he lost to István Kozma and three times to the Soviet starter Nikolai Schmakow . In 1968 Petr Kment finally managed to win against István Kozma at the European Championships in Västerås and promptly became European champion with six brilliant victories. At the Olympic Games of the same year in Mexico City , however, the events from 1965 to 1967 were repeated. H. Petr Kment lost against István Kozma and against Anatoli Roschtschin and also against the Swede Ragnar Svensson , but still won the bronze medal before Svensson.

After 1969 Petr was not quite as successful, but won at the World Championships 1971 in Sofia again and one bronze at the World Championships 1973 in Tehran even the silver medal . At the European Championships in Berlin in 1970 , when Roland Bock from the Federal Republic of Germany won the title, Petr Kment was the only wrestler who reached a draw against Bock.

After winning the runner-up world title in 1973, Petr Kment ended his international wrestling career. He became a doctor and later president of the PSK "Olymp" Prague police sports club.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, S = heavyweight, up to 1968 over 97 kg body weight, from 1969 as super heavyweight over 100 kg body weight)

• 1964, 2nd place , "Iwan-Poddubny" tournament in Moscow , GR, S, behind Anatoli Roschtschin , Soviet Union a . before Radoslaw Kasabow , Bulgaria ;
• 1964, 4th place , OS in Tokyo , GR, S, with victories over Hamit Kaplan , Turkey a . Robert Peckens, USA a . Defeats to Anatoly Roschtschin, USSR and István Kozma , Hungary ;
• 1965, 3rd place , World Championship in Tampere , GR, S, with a victory over Bekir Aksu, Turkey, a draw against Radoslaw Kasabow u. Defeats against István Kozma u. Nikolai Shmakov , USSR;
• 1966, 3rd place , EM in Essen , GR, S, with victories over Karl Bachmann, Switzerland , Edmund Wojda, Poland and Osmo Hekkala, Finland , a draw against Roland Bock , FRG a . a loss to István Kozma;
• 1966, 3rd place , World Championships in Toledo / USA , GR, S, with victories over Abdulfazil Anvari, Iran , Osmo Hekkala and James Raschke , USA a. Defeats against István Kozma u. Nikolai Shmakov;
• 1967, 3rd place , EM in Minsk , GR, S, with victories over Constantin Busoiu, Romania , Günter Bierla, Poland a. Lennart Eriksson, Sweden a. Defeats against Nikolai Schmakow u. István Kozma;
• 1967, 3rd place , World Championships in Bucharest , GR, S, with victories over Constantin Busoiu u. Edward Wojda, a tie against Anatoli Roschtschin u. a loss to István Kozma;
• 1968, 1st place , EM in Västerås , GR, S, with victories over Istvan Semeredi, Yugoslavia , Edward Wojda, Stefan Petrow, Bulgaria, Nahit Taser, Turkey, Ragnar Svensson , Sweden a. István Kozma;
• 1968, bronze medal , OS in Mexico City , GR, S, with victories over Hassan Ali Bechara , Lebanon, Bekir Aksu u. Constantin Busoiu u. Losses against Ragnar Svensson, István Kozma u. Anatoly Roschtschin;
• 1970, 6th place , EM in Berlin , GR, SS, m. a victory over Arne Robertsson , Sweden a. Draw against József Csatári , Hungary a. Roland Bock u. a loss to Alexandar Tomow , Bulgaria;
• 1971, 3rd place , "Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Berlin , GR, SS, behind Alexandar Tomow u. Bohumil Kubát , CSSR;
• 1971, 3rd place , World Championships in Sofia , GR, SS, with victories over Edward Wojda, Jamshid Nourhad, Iran a. Horst Schwarz , FRG a. Defeats against Anatoli Roschtschin u. Alexandar Tomow;
• 1972, 3rd place , "Nikolai-Petrow" tournament in Sofia, GR, SS, behind Alexandar Tomow a. Victor Dolipschi , Romania;
• 1972, 6th place , EM in Katowice , GR, SS, with a victory over Omar Topuz, Turkey, a draw against Anatoli Kochnev , USSR and. a loss to Alexandar Tomov;
• 1972, 7th place , OS in Munich , GR, SS, with a victory over Raimo Karlsson, Finland a. Losses against Chris Taylor , USA (both wrestlers were disqualified for being passive) and Anatoly Roschtschin;
• 1973, 1st place , "Dynamo" -Spartakiade of the social states in Berlin, GR, SS, in front of Victor Dolipschi, Zsolt Gombos , Hungary a. Roland Gehrke , GDR ;
• 1973, 9th place , EM in Helsinki , GR, SS, after defeats against Alexandar Tomow a. Shota Morschiladze , USSR;
• 1973, 2nd place , World Championships in Tehran , GR, SS, with victories over Mack McCrady, USA, Hassan Ali Bechara, Schota Morschiladze u. József Csatári u. a loss to Alexandar Tomov

swell

• Various issues of the specialist magazine " Athletik " from 1961 to 1973
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nekrolog (Czech)

Web links

• Profile of Petr Kment at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Petr Kment in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )