Sándor Major

Sándor Major (born July 31, 1965 ) is a former Hungarian wrestler . He was vice world champion in 1987 and 1990 in the Greco-Roman style in light heavy and heavyweight.

Career

Sándor Major grew up in Budapest and started wrestling there at the age of 10 in 1975. Over the years he developed into an excellent wrestler in the Greco-Roman style. He became a member of the Budapesti VSC and began his international career in 1985 when he finished 3rd at the Junior World Championships in Colorado Springs in the light heavyweight division.

In 1987 he was the first Hungarian light heavyweight champion. He added a second Hungarian championship title in 1991 in the heavyweight division.

In 1987 he started for the first time at a world championship for seniors. In Clermont-Ferrand he made it the same for a sensation because he was light heavyweight behind the Soviet athlete Vladimir Popov , but against such rounders as Atanas Komtschew from Bulgaria and Harri Koskela of Finland Vice World Champion .

In 1988 he was in Kolbotn , a suburb of Oslo , in the light heavyweight division and vice- European champion . He lost it in the final against Iwajlo Jordanow from Bulgaria . At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 , Sándor Major could not place in the front field. In an international match in Schifferstadt he was defeated in the heavyweight division against Gerhard Himmel from Aschaffenburg on points. After a weaker year in 1989, he achieved another great success at the 1990 World Cup in Rome . He was again runner-up in the heavyweight division behind Sjarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch from the Soviet Union . On the way there he also defeated Héctor Milián from Cuba , who would later become one of the most successful wrestlers in the world. In 1990 he started in a 3-country match in Schifferstadt and suffered points defeats from Olaf Koschnitzke from the GDR and from Roger Gries.

Sándor Major won his last medal at an international championship at the 1991 European championship in Aschaffenburg . He finished there in the heavyweight division behind Sjarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch and Andreas Steinbach from the FRG in 3rd place. At the 1991 World Cup in Varna he missed the medal ranks with a 5th place. How far he was from the top wrestlers is shown by a 0:15 point defeat against Hector Milian, who became world champion.

In the 1992 Olympic year he only came in 8th place at the European heavyweight championships in Copenhagen and also missed the ticket to Barcelona when the Hungarian wrestlers were eliminated from the Olympic Games in Barcelona due to a defeat against the 35-year-old 1980 Olympic champion Norbert Növényi .

Sándor Major ended his international wrestling career with a 7th place at the 1993 World Championships in Stockholm. He completed a sports degree and is now a sports teacher.

International success

(WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Hs = light heavyweight, S = heavyweight, back then up to 90 kg or 100 kg body weight)

• 1985, 1st place , tournament in Götzis / Austria , GR, Hs, ahead of Zbigniew Gluck, Poland , Andrzej Wroński , Poland, Karl-Heinz Heinze, FRG a . Roger Gries , FRG;

• 1985, 3rd place , Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Colorado Springs , GR, Hs, behind Sauri Iwanoschwili, USSR a . Roger Gries et al. before Stanislaw Tanew, Bulgaria a . Andrzej Wroński;

• 1987, 2nd place , World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand , GR, Hs, behind Vladimir Popow , USSR a. before Atanas Komtschew , Bulgaria, Harri Koskela , Finland , Ilie Matei , Romania a . Yasutoshi Moriyama, Japan ;

• 1987, 6th place , FILA-Grand-Prix in Budapest , GR, Hs, behind Wladimir Popow, Atanas Komtschew, Guillermo Cruz, Cuba , Ilie Matei u. Harri Koskela;

• 1988, 2nd place , EM in Kolbotn / Norway , GR, Hs, behind Iwajlo Jordanow, Bulgaria a. before Pawel Potapow , USSR, Bernard Ban , Yugoslavia , Olaf Koschnitzke , GDR a . Georgios Pikilidis , Greece ;

• 1988, 2nd place , FILA-Grand-Prix in Budapest, GR, Hs, behind Peter Farkas , Hungary a . before Wladimir Popow u. Atanas Komchev;

• 1990, 2nd place , World Championship in Rome , GR, S, behind Sjarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch , USSR a. before Dušan Masár , CSSR , Stipe Damjanović , Yugoslavia, Héctor Milián , Cuba a. Chris Tirone, USA ;

• 1991, 3rd place , EM in Aschaffenburg , GR, S, behind Sjarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch u. Andreas Steinbach , FRG a. in front of Celal Inceler, Turkey , Ilja Wassiliew , Bulgaria a. Jörgen Olsson , Sweden ;

• 1991, 5th place , World Championships in Varna , GR, S, behind Hector Milian, Jörgen Olsson, Sjarhej Dsjamjaschkewitsch u. Atanas Komchev et al. before Miloš Govedarica, Yugoslavia;

• 1992, 8th place , EM in Copenhagen , GR, S, winner: Andrzej Wroński in front of Ibragim Tschawtschalow , GUS u. Andreas Steinbach;

• 1993, 7th place , World Championship in Stockholm , GR, S, behind Mikael Ljungberg , Sweden, Ibragim Tschawtschalow, Andrzej Wroński, Sung Il-Song, South Korea , James Johnson, USA a. Shurat Sadiyev, Uzbekistan

Hungarian championships

Sándor Major was Hungarian light heavyweight champion in 1987 and heavyweight champion in 1991, both in Greco-Roman. Style.

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers 9/1985, pages 9/10, 9/1987, pages 9/10, 6/1988, page 6, 6/1990, page 16, 11/1990, pages 9/10, 5/1991, Page 10, 10/1991, Pages 6/7, 5/1992, Page 8 and 10/1993, pages 8/9
• Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

• Profile of Sándor Major at the Institute for Applied Training Science