Tamás Bujkó

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Tamás Bujkó (born December 2, 1962 in Budapest , † March 21, 2008 in London ) was a Hungarian judoka . He won a silver medal at the world championships in 1983.

Career

The 1.65 m tall Bujkó by Újpesti TE was the 1981 European junior champion in the ultra- light weight category, up to 60 kilograms. In 1983 he finished seventh at the European Championships in Paris. At the 1983 World Championships in Moscow, he defeated the Japanese Ken'ichi Haraguchi in the semifinals , in the final he lost to Chasret Tlezeri from the Soviet Union. Two years later he lost to the Japanese Shinji Hosokawa in the semifinals of the 1985 World Championships in Seoul , but then secured a bronze medal.

In 1986 Bujkó finally switched to half-light weight, the weight class up to 85 kilograms, in which he had been mostly active since 1984. At the European Championships in 1986 , he finished seventh. Two months later he won a bronze medal at the Goodwill Games in Moscow. In 1986 Bujkó also won his only Hungarian national championship title. At the European Championships in Paris in 1987, Bujkó lost to French Jean-Pierre Hansen in the semifinals . With a victory over the Belgian Philip Laats , Bujkó secured a bronze medal. In November 1987 Bujkó lost to the Japanese Yosuke Yamamoto in the quarterfinals at the World Championships in Essen , but fought his way to the bronze medal. At the end of his career, the Hungarian competed at the Olympic Games in Seoul. Bujkó won his first four fights, three of them prematurely by Ippon. In the semifinals he was defeated by the eventual Olympic champion Lee Kyung-keun from South Korea after 3:33 minutes. The French Bruno Carabetta won the battle for bronze by a referee decision (Yusei-gachi), Bujkó took fifth place.

Tamás Bujkó later moved to England with his family. There he was murdered in March 2008 in the Sudbury Hill underground station in London .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Match balance at judoinside.com
  2. ↑ In the match balance at judoinside.com there is a defeat against Laats. In the overview of the results of the European Championships at judoinside.com, Bujko is third and Laats is fifth.
  3. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 105f
  4. ↑ Olympian's killer jailed for life (BBC report of February 23, 2009)
personal data
SURNAME Bujkó, Tamás
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian judoka
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 2008
Place of death London