Ryszard Świerad

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Ryszard Świerad (born 1955 in Wałbrzych ; † August 3, 2011 in Spała , Powiat Tomaszowski ) was a Polish wrestler . He was world champion in 1982 in Greco-Roman style featherweight .

Career

Ryszard Świerad started wrestling as a teenager. After his first successes in the junior division at national level, he was delegated to the Polish top club Wisloka Dębica and coached there by Czeslaw Korzen. He focused fully on the Greco-Roman style.

As early as 1973, at the age of 18, he was used in international championships. So he started at the European Championships in Helsinki in paper weight (class up to 48 kg body weight) and took a good 6th place with two wins. In the same year he totally surprised the wrestling world when he even finished 2nd in the paper weight world championship in Tehran and thus became vice world champion . He won there u. a. also about the German master Günter Maas . Only in the final battle he was defeated by multiple Soviet world champion Vladimir Zubkow .

In the next few years Ryszard Swierad gained weight and had to struggle with the fact that there was a wide range of world class wrestlers in the lower weight classes in Poland at that time . His competitors in Poland were z. B. Józef Lipień , Kazimierz Lipień , Jan Michalik and Piotr Michalik . It was therefore not until 1976 before he came back to an international championship. He came here at the European Championships in 1976 in Leningrad in bantamweight after two wins and losses against József Doncsecz , Hungary a . Farchat Mustafin , USSR , in 6th place. He was not used at the 1976 Olympic Games.

In 1977 he was used at the European featherweight championships in Bursa and at the bantamweight championships in Gothenburg . At both championships he just missed a medal with a 4th and a 5th place. In Bursa he was defeated in the decisive battles against Nelson Dawidjan from the USSR and against Ion Păun from Romania . In Gothenburg he succeeded a. a. a victory over Rolf Krauss from the FRG . But he lost to Pertti Ukkola from Finland and again to Farchat Mustafin.

In 1980 was Ryszard Świerad in Prievidza Vice European champion at featherweight. He won it u. a. about Ion Păun and Stylianos Migiakis from Greece . In the final battle he was defeated by Nelson Dawidjan . Despite this good result, Ryszard Swierad did not get a place in the Polish Olympic team. In Moscow , Józef and Kazimierz Lipień started in featherweight and bantamweight respectively.

From 1981 until 1983 he started regularly at the World and European Championships, because the Lipień brothers resigned at the end of 1980. He celebrated a great success at the 1981 European Championships in Gothenburg by winning the featherweight title. His victories over István Tóth from Hungary and his feared opponent Farchat Mustafin were decisive for this . At this year's World Championships in Oslo , he narrowly missed winning the title. He hit there u. a. Olympic champion Pertti Ukkola and the Turkish-born American Abdurrahim Kuzu , but this time had to admit defeat in the decisive fight against István Tóth.

1982 reached Ryszard Swierad at the European Championships in Varna in featherweight only the 5th place. At the world championship of that year in Katowice , however, he managed his biggest victory, because he became world champion in featherweight with five wins. In the decisive battles he defeated István Tóth and Rafail Nasibulow from the USSR. He became so popular in Poland that he took a very good 4th place in the election for Polish Sportsman of the Year.

In 1983 Ryszard Swierad was no longer so successful. He finished 5th at both the European Championships in Budapest and the World Championships in Kiev in featherweight. In 1984 the young Bogusław Klozik was preferred to him at the European Championships . But it was planned to start at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles . Nothing came of this start because of the boycott of these games by the socialist states of the time. So it happened that Ryszard Swierad did not take part in the Olympic Games once in his long career.

In 1985 he finished his international wrestling career and trained as a wrestler trainer at the Gorzów Sports University , a branch of the Poznan Sports University . He then coached various Polish wrestling clubs and at the beginning of the 1990s was one of the responsible trainers in the Polish wrestling association for the Greco-Roman style. In the mid-1990s Ryszard Swierad went to Sweden and became the Swedish national coach. He has some wrestlers, such as B. Jimmy Samuelsson et al. Ara Abrahamian formed into world class wrestlers. In 2009 he trained a. a. the Danish top wrestler and ex-world champion Mark Overgaard Madsen .

International success

(WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Pa = paper weight, Ba = bantam weight, Fe = feather weight, at that time up to 48 kg, 57 kg and 62 kg body weight)

  • 1980, 3rd place , tournament in Västerås , GR, Fe, behind Boris Kramarenko u. István Tóth;
  • 1981, 1st place , tournament in Västerås, GR, Fe, in front of Abdurrahim Kuzu , USA a. Pekka Vehviläinen, Finland;
  • 1981, 1st place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg, GR, Fe, ahead of Nandor Szabo, Hungary, Panayot Kirow , Bulgaria, Jean-Pierre Mercader, France a. Thomas Passarelli , FRG;
  • 1981, 1st place , EM in Gothenburg , GR, Fe, with victories over Jean-Pierre Mercader, Lars Malmkwist, István Tóth, Farchat Mustafin and others. Panayot Kirov;
  • 1981, 2nd place , World Championships in Oslo , GR, Fe, with victories over Herbert Nigsch, Austria, Pertti Ukkola, Finland a. Panayot Kirow et al. Defeats against Abdurahim Kuzu u. István Tóth;
  • 1982, 5th place , EM in Varna , GR, Fe, behind Rafail Nasibulow , USSR, Panayot Kirow, István Tóth, Jalabert, France a. Lars Malmkvist;
  • 1982, 1st place , World Championships in Katowice , GR, Fe, ahead of Rafail Nasibulow, Panayot Kirow, Hannu Övermark , Finland, István Tóth u. Lars Malmkvist;
  • 1983, 4th place , Klippan tournament, GR, Fe, behind Rafeil Nasibulow, Panayot Kirow u. Bernd Gabriel , FRG, before Piotr Michalik , Poland;
  • 1983, 5th place , World Cup in Kiev , GR, Fe, behind Hanli Lahtinen , Finland, Günter Reichelt, Schiwko Wangelow Atanassow u. Miroslav Starek, in front of Bernd Gabriel;
  • 1984, 2nd place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Freiburg, GR, Fe, behind Alexander Litwinow, in front of Günter Reichelt a. Bernd Gabriel

swell

  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of FILA , 1976, pages: E-91, W-111 u. E-113,
  • Athletics magazine , number: 5/1973,
  • Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 5/1977, 6/7/1977, 11/1977, 4/1979, 2/1980, 4/1980, 5/1980, 2/1981, 4/1981, 5/1981, 6 / 1981, 5/6/1982, 9/1982, 2/1983, 9/1983, 10/1983 and 4/1984

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personal data
SURNAME Świerad, Ryszard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Wałbrzych
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 2011
Place of death Spała