Roger Tallroth

Roger Tallroth medal table
Wrestler
Sweden
Olympic games
silver	1984 Los Angeles	Welter
European Championship
silver	1982 Varna	Welter
gold	1984 Jönköping	Welter
silver	1986 Athens	Welter
Junior World Championship
bronze	1979 Haparanda	feather

Roger Tallroth (born September 28, 1960 in Hässleholm ) is a former Swedish wrestler .

Career

Roger Tallroth started wrestling at Ballingslöv Brottningklub (BK) at the age of seven . With talent, hard work and perseverance, he and his coach Leo Mylleri reached him, later Leif Andersson coached him , soon the Swedish and the world top class. He learned the trade of a tiler, but in the early 1980s he fully concentrated on wrestling. At a height of 1.76 m, he weighed around 75 kg and started in welterweight, exclusively in the Greco-Roman style.

On the international wrestling stage he first appeared at the Junior World Championships in 1979 in Haparanda , where he immediately impressed with an excellent 3rd place in the featherweight division. In 1981 it was used for the first time in an international championship among the seniors. He had meanwhile grown into the welterweight division and missed the bronze medal at the world championship by a narrow point defeat against the Yugoslav Karoly Kasap.

He won his first international medal at the 1982 European Championships in Oslo . He fought for the silver medal against extremely strong opponents from the Eastern bloc countries that were leading in the wrestling. His next start at an international championship was in 1983 at the world championship in Kiev . His 5th place was excellent in the again extremely tough competition.

1984 turned out to be the most successful in Roger Tallroth's career. First he won the European Championships in Jönköping in front of the fully assembled world elite and then he won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles . In the final battle he was somewhat unhappy about the Finn Jouko Salomäki with 4: 5 points.

The next big success Roger achieved at the European Championships in 1986 in Athens , where he became vice European champion. The Soviet superstar Mikhail Mamiashvili blocked his way to victory.

In 1987 he just missed a medal at the European Championships in Tampere when he lost to the Bulgarian Dobri Marinov in the battle for the bronze medal . In the same year, in Torbjörn Kornbakk, a tough competitor emerged in his own country, which in future made him contestable for the starting positions at the international championships. Nevertheless, he was used again in 1988 at the Olympic Games in Seoul , but ended up only in 7th place.

Roger Tallroth ended his international wrestling career after these Olympic Games, but continued to wrestle at the national level for a few years. After all, he worked as a wrestling trainer and is today (2006) "Association Captain" (head coach) of the Swedish national wrestling team.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Fe = featherweight, We = welterweight, then up to 62 kg or 74 kg body weight, middle weight up to 82 kg body weight)

• 1979, 3rd place , Junior World Championships in Haparanda , GR, Fe, behind Michail Prokudin , USSR and Stefan Michailow, Bulgaria and in front of Gheorghe Păduraru, Romania and Erat Metin, Turkey ;
• 1980, 6th place , European Junior Championships in Bursa , GR, We, winner: Alexander Kudrjawzew , USSR, ahead of Ronald Schultz, GDR and Stojan Wassiliew, Bulgaria;
• 1981, 2nd place , "Klippan" tournament, GR, We, behind Zabegalin, USSR and ahead of Lennart Lundell , Sweden;
• 1981, 4th place , World Cup in Oslo , GR, We, with victories over Djafar Alizadeh, Iran , Ferenc Kocsis , Hungary , Wiesław Dziadura , Poland and Feliciano Marotto, Italy and defeats to Mikko Huhtala , Finland and Karoly Kasap, Yugoslavia ;
• 1982, 2nd place , EM in Varna , GR, We, behind Andrzej Supron , Poland and in front of Kasap, Kudrjawzew, Ștefan Rusu , Romania and Schopow, Bulgaria;
• 1983, 5th place , World Championships in Minsk , GR, We, behind Michail Mamiaschwili , USSR, Supron, Kasap and Ștefan Rusu and in front of Takahiro Mukai, Japan ;
• 1984, 1st place , EM in Jönköping , GR, We, ahead of Borislaw Welitschkow, Bulgaria, Mamiaschwili, Karl-Heinz Helbing , FRG , Jouko Salomäki , Finland and Ștefan Rusu;
• 1984, silver medal , OS in Los Angeles , GR, We, with victories over Stratico, Argentina , Taskiran, Turkey, Chris Catalfo, USA and Martial Mischler , France and one defeat against Salomäki;
• 1985, 6th place , EM in Leipzig , GR, We, with victories over Taskiran and Jaroslaw Zeman , Czechoslovakia and defeats against Mamiaschwili, Ștefan Rusu and Jerzy Kopanski , Poland;
• 1985, 3rd place , World Cup tournament in Lund , GR, We, behind Mamiaschwili and Antonio Lopez, Cuba and in front of David Butler, USA and Martin Kornbakk , Sweden ;
• 1986, 2nd place , EM in Athens , GR, We, behind Mamiaschwili and in front of Salomäki, Kopanski, Ștefan Rusu and Mischler;
• 1986, 5th place , World Championships in Budapest , GR, We, behind Mamiaschwili, Mirko Jahn , GDR, Dobri Marinow , Bulgaria and Franc Podlesek, Yugoslavia and in front of Batler;
• 1987, 5th place , Grand Prix tournament, GR, We, behind Jozef Tracz , Poland, Anton Aghira, Romania and Tobor Podolski, Hungary;
• 1987, 4th place , EM in Tampere , GR, We, behind Daulet Turlychanow , USSR, Salomäki and Marinow and in front of Zeman and Andreas Lemke, GDR;
• 1987, 5th place , FILA Grand Prix tournament in Budapest, GR, We, behind Turlychanow, Salomäki, Tracz and Marinow;
• 1988, 7th place , OS in Seoul , GR, We, behind Kim Young-Nam, South Korea , Turlychanow, Tracz, Janos Farkas, Hungary, Mischler and Welitschkow

Swedish championships

Roger Tallroth was Swedish welterweight champion in 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1988 and middleweight champion in 1992

literature

• Trade magazines Athletik and Der Ringer
• Anniversary ribbon for the 100th anniversary of the Swedish Wrestling Association "Svensk Brottning 100 år", 2009

Web links

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