Ryszard Wolny

Ryszard Wolny

Ryszard Marcin Wolny (born March 24, 1969 in Racibórz , Silesia ) is a Polish wrestler . He was Olympic champion in the Greco-Roman style lightweight in 1996 .

Career

Ryszard Wolny grew up in his hometown Racibórz and attended a technical school there, which he graduated as a mechanic in 1990. He later visited a branch of the Poznan Sports University in Gorzów Wielkopolski , where he trained as a sports teacher specializing in wrestling.

He started wrestling in 1980 and became a member of the MKZ Unia (Union) Racibórz sports club . He was a member of this club without interruption until the end of his career in 2005. In Racibórz he was trained by Bogdan Merkiel and Aleksander Zajaczkowski. In the Polish national team Stanisław Krzesiński , Piotr Starczyński , Andrzej Supron and Ryszard Świerad were added as coaches. As an adult, he started out as a bantamweight at a height of 1.70 meters , but quickly grew into featherweight and lightweight. Ryszard Wolny is also very well known in German wrestling circles because he wrestled in the German Bundesliga from 1990 to 2005 at KSV Germania Aalen , VfK Schifferstadt and KSK Konkordia Neuss and thus made a living. He only wrestled in the Greco-Roman style.

After he became Polish junior bantamweight champion in 1987, he began his international wrestling career that year at the Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Katowice . He started it right away with a title win, because he became Junior European Champion with a victory in the final over Petteri Meskanen from Finland . To this title he was able to add the junior European championship title of the Espoirs age group (up to the age of 20) in Wałbrzych in 1988 . Again in the bantamweight he defeated Kamu Ambarzumjan from the USSR in the final battle . In 1989 he let these titles follow the European championship title in the senior featherweight division at the European Championships in Oulu . In the final, he defeated the Hungarian Jozsef Szuromski . He then fought his way to third place at the 1989 Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Budapest behind Sawko Sawow, Bulgaria and Juan Luis Maren Delis from Cuba . In 1989 he also took part in the Senior World Championships in Martigny / Switzerland . He was eliminated there after the 3rd round, although his exact placement, which was not among the top 10, is nowhere recorded (see Der Ringer magazine, No. 9/89, page 4).

Ryszard Wolny won two bronze medals at the international championships in 1990. At the European championships in Poznan he finished behind Gennadi Atmakin from the USSR and Jenő Bódi from Hungary and at the World Championships in Rome - Ostia behind Mario Olivera from Cuba and Gennadi Atmakin in each case Featherweight 3rd place each.

After that he could not win any medals at the World and European Championships until 1994. Although he reached fourth or fifth place four times in five international championships in those years, he was always eliminated before reaching the fights for the medals, mostly against Islam Dugutschijew from Russia , Ghani Yalouz from France or Attila Repka from Hungary. In 1995 he was then vice European champion in Besançon in the lightweight. He lost the final fight against Ghani Yalouz. At this year's World Cup in Prague , he ended up on the ungrateful fourth after a semi-final defeat against Rustam Adschi from Ukraine (0: 5 points) and a defeat in the battle for the bronze medal against Jannis Zamanduridis from Germany (3: 4 points) . Space.

At the European Championships in Budapest in 1996 , Ryszard Wolny disappointed, because he only came in 12th there and thus missed the qualifying standards for the Olympic Games in Atlanta . But he was lucky because he received a wild card from the international wrestling association Fila for participating in these games. In Atlanta, like the entire Polish team, he presented himself in excellent form. There he defeated Attila Repka (6: 1 points), Liubal Colas Oris , Kuba (6: 0 points), Grigori Pulyayev, Uzbekistan (3: 0 points) and Ghani Yalouz (7: 0 points) and won the Olympic gold medal with a points ratio of 22: 1 . Besides him, Włodzimierz Zawadzki and Andrzej Wroński won gold medals in Greco-Roman style from his Polish teammates in Atlanta .

In the following years he could no longer build on these great successes. At the 1997 World Cup in Wrocław , he retired early after losing to Rustam Adschi and only came in 10th. He did better at the 1998 World Cup in Gävle , where he finished 6th. In 1999 he won another silver medal at the European Championships in Sofia . He defeated Adam Juretzko from Germany clearly on points (7: 0) in the semifinals, just as clearly to lose in the final against Alexei Gluschkow from Russia (0: 9 points).

At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 he lost his first fight against Alexei Gluschkow on points and was then only able to reach 7th place despite two victories over Rustam Adschi and Uladsimir Kapytau from Belarus . In 2001 and 2002 Ryszard Wolny did not take part in any international championships. In 2003 he dared to make a comeback. He started at the World Championships in Créteil and came in 12th place with victories over Mohammed Bargnaoui from Tunisia and Mchitar Manukjan from Kazakhstan and a defeat against Manuchar K Wirkwelia from Georgia. In 2004, already 35 years old, he managed to qualify for the fourth time to take part in the Olympic Games in two tournaments. In Athens he could not do anything in the lightweight against his much younger competitors and was defeated on points against Fərid Mansurov from Azerbaijan and against Juan Luis Maren Delis from Cuba and therefore only finished 17th.

Then he ended his international and in 2005 his national wrestling career. In 2006 and 2010 he was elected to the Racibórz City Council, where he still lives. Since 2007 he has also been the coach of the Greco-Roman style wrestlers for the Polish national team.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Result
1987	1.	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Katowice	up to 57 kg body weight	in front of Petterei Meskanen, Finland and Dimitar Dontschew, Bulgaria
1988	1.	Junior European Championship (Espoirs) in Wałbrzych	Bantam	before Kamo Ambarzumjan, USSR a . Imre Simita, Hungary
1989	6th	Grand Prix of Germany in Bonn	feather	behind Kamandar Madschydau , USSR, Hüseyin Demirtas, Turkey , Constantin Uță , Romania, Jozsef Szuromski , Hungary a . Piotr Troczyński, Poland
1989	1.	EM in Oulu	feather	before Jozsef Szuromski, Hungary, Gennadi Atmakin , USSR a. Hugo Dietsche , Switzerland
1989	3.	Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Budapest	feather	behind Sawko Sawow, Bulgaria a. Juan Luis Maren Delis , Cuba , before Wardan Margarjan, USSR a. Mats Olsson, Sweden
1989	?	World Cup in Martigny / Switzerland	feather	not placed in the top ten wrestlers
1990	3.	EM in Poznan	feather	behind Gennadi Atmakin u. Jenő Bódi , Hungary, before Nentscho Nentschew, Bulgaria a. Faouzi Mokkedem, France
1990	3.	World Cup in Rome - Ostia	feather	behind Mario Olivera , Cuba a. Gennadi Atmakin, in front of Anthony Lee, USA a . Juha Virtanen, Finland
1991	17th	World Cup in Varna	Light	Winner: Islam Dugutschijew , USSR ahead of Martin Kornbakk , Sweden a. Stoyan Dobrew , Bulgaria
1992	5.	EM in Copenhagen	Light	behind Ghani Yalouz , France, Attila Repka , Hungary, Valeri Nikitin , Estonia a . Petrica Carare , Romania
1992	7th	OS in Barcelona	Light	after victories over Takumi Mori, Japan a . Martin Kornbakk, Sweden, defeats against Cecilio Rodriguez, Cuba a. Islam Dugutschijew u. a win over Douglas Yeats , Canada
1993	3.	Stanislaus Pytlasinski Tournament in Warsaw	Light	behind Jannis Zamanduridis , Germany a. Roger Lundholm, Sweden
1993	1.	Intern. Tournament in Paris	Light	before Kim Jung-il, South Korea a . Jannis Zamanduridis
1993	5.	EM in Istanbul	Light	behind Islam Dugutschijew, Oleg Tokarjew, Moldova , Kamandar Madschydau, Belarus u. Peter Bielesz , Slovakia
1993	5.	World Cup in Stockholm	Light	behind Islam Dugutschijew, Kamandar Madschydau, Ghani Yalouz u. Martin Kornbakk
1994	5.	EM in Athens	Light	behind Attila Repka, Hungary, Ghani Yalouz, Islam Dugutschijew u. Rustam Aji , Ukraine
1994	4th	World Cup in Tampere	Light	behind Islam Dugutschijew, Ghani Yalouz u. Bisser Georgiev, Bulgaria
1995	2.	EM in Besançon	Light	behind Ghani Yalouz, in front of Marko Yli-Hannuksela , Finland, Anders Magnusson, Sweden a. Waghinak Galstyan , Armenia
1995	2.	German Grand Prix in Koblenz	Light	behind Adam Juretzko , Germany, in front of Jannis Zamanduridis u. Takumi Mori, Japan
1995	4th	World Cup in Prague	Light	behind Rustam Adschi, Attila Repka u. Jannis Zamanduridis, in front of Tarieli Melelaschwili , Georgia a. Valeri Nikitin
1996	12.	EM in Budapest	Light	Winner: Attila Repka ahead of Alexander Tretyakov , Russia and Ghanai Yalouz
1996	gold	OS in Atlanta	Light	after victories over Attila Repka, Liubal Colas Oris, Cuba, Grigori Pulyayev, Uzbekistan u. Ghani Yalouz
1997	10.	World Cup in Wrocław	Light	after victory over Grigori Pulyayev, defeat against Rustam Adschi, victory over Il Jong Kang, North Korea a . Lost to Ender Memet , Romania
1998	8th.	EM in Minsk	Light	after losing to Ender Memet, victories over Juri Markman, Israel a. Teemu Mäntylä, Finland a. Lost to Ivajlo Mikhailov, Bulgaria
1998	6th	World Cup in Gaevle	Light	after victories over Peter Puls, Switzerland, Theodorus Voltsidis, Greece a. Defeats against Csaba Hirbik , Hungary a. Song Sang-pil, South Korea
1999	2.	EM in Sofia	Light	after victories over Mattias Schoberg, Sweden, Csaba Hirbik, Ari Härkänen , Finland a. Adam Juretzko et al. a loss to Alexei Gluschkov , Russia
1999	20th	World Cup in Athens	Light	after defeating Mattias Schoberg u. Loss against Alexander Tretyakov
2000	14th	Olympic qualification tournament in Faenza	Light	Winner: Adam Juretzko ahead of Juha Lappalainen, Finland a. Ender memet
2000	1.	Olympic qualification tournament in Clermont-Ferrand	Light	before Adam Juretzko, Ender Memet a. Mohammad Reza Babulfath , Sweden
2000	10.	Olympic qualification tournament in Tashkent	Light	Winner. Islam Dugutschijew, Azerbaijan before Mahmut Altay, Turkey, Ender Memet u. Adam Juretzko
2000	2.	Olympic Qualification Tournament in Colorado Springs	Light	behind Mohammad Reza Babulfath, in front of Njiya Saiyi, China and Jong Kon I, North Korea
2000	7th	OS in Sydney	Light	after losing to Alexei Gluschkow a. Victories over Rustam Adschi u. Uladsimir Kapytau , Belarus
2003	12.	World Cup in Créteil	Light	after victories over Mohamed Bargnaoui, Tunisia a . Mchitar Manukjan , Kazakhstan a. a loss to Manuchar K Wirkwelia, Georgia
2004	25th	Olympic qualification tournament in Novi Sad	Light	Winner: Nikolaj Gergow , Bulgaria ahead of Parviz Zaidvand , Iran a. Ambako Watschadze , Russia
2004	4th	Olympic qualification tournament in Tashkent	Light	behind Juan Luis Maren Delis, Moises Sanchez Parra, Spain u. Kanatbek Begaliev , Kyrgyzstan
2004	17th	OS in Athens	Light	after defeats against Fərid Mansurov , Azerbaijan and Juan Luis Maren Delis

Polish championships

Ryszard Wolny won the Polish championship title ten times (bantam, feather and lightweight).

Explanations

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Bantamweight, until 1996 up to 58 kg, feather weight, until 1996 up to 62 kg, lightweight, until 1996 up to 68 kg, from 1997 to 2001 up to 69 kg and since 2002 up to 66 kg body weight

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• Journal Der Ringer * Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
• Website of the Polish Wrestling Federation
• Website of the Olympic Committee of Poland

Web link

Profile of Ryszard Wolny at the Institute for Applied Training Science