Tapio Sipilä

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Tapio Sipilä (born November 26, 1958 in Kiiminki ) is a former Finnish wrestler and world champion 1983 in the Greco-Roman style in the lightweight.

Career

Tapio Sipilä started as a teenager in Muhos the Ringer Club Muhoksen Voitto with the rings . He specialized in the Greco-Roman. Style and was one of the best Finnish wrestlers in his respective age group in the youth field. In 1973 he took 3rd place in the class up to 52 kg body weight at both the Finnish youth championships and the Finnish junior championships. Until 1988, Tapio Sipilä competed in the Finnish championships year after year and won the championship title five times in the seniors (from the age of 18). The main reason that it didn't get any more was that he, who always started lightweight (up to 68 kg body weight) on the international wrestling mat, often started one weight class higher at the Finnish championships in order to avoid the exhausting training and found very strong opponents in welterweight (up to 74 kg body weight).

Tapio Sipilä and his association Muhoksen Voitto belonged to the Finnish Workers' Sports Association (TUL). On the basis of an agreement between this federation and the Finnish bourgeois wrestling federation, which is affiliated to the FILA , the wrestlers of the sports federation TUL, if they had qualified for it, could start without problems at the big international championships of the FILA. Tapio Sipilä was champion of the TUL sports association between 1979 and 1988 a total of nine times.

Tapio Sipilä began his international career with a 4th place at the Junior European Championships (Espoirs) in Poznań in the lightweight. In the seniors he first competed at the 1978 World Cup in Mexico City . In the lightweight he still had to pay a lot of money there, because he lost his two fights against Howard Stupp from Canada and Heinz-Helmut Wehling from the GDR and ended up in 12th place. But already at his second start at an international senior championship, the 1980 European championship in Prievidza , Tapio Sipilä won a medal, the bronze one. He defeated u. a. also the two German representatives Erich Klaus and Peter Thätner each on points. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , he met the top wrestlers Suren Nalbandjan from the Soviet Union and Ștefan Rusu from Romania , against whom he lost and thus only came in 13th place.

1981 was an even better year for him, because he won the bronze medal at the European lightweight championship in Gothenburg , this time losing to Erich Klaus in the semifinals and even finishing 2nd at the World Championships in Oslo . In the final he lost it against Gennady Yermilov from the USSR.

After a somewhat weaker year in 1982, but at least he reached 5th place at the World Championships in Katowice , 1983 was the most successful year in Tapio Sipilä's career. First he finished 3rd at the European Championships in Budapest in the spring and then he became world champion in Kiev this autumn, ahead of Mohamed Bana from Iran and Gennady Jermilow.

In 1984, Tapio Sipilä added a silver medal in lightweight to his successes at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles . In the final he lost it to the Yugoslav surprise man Vlado Lisjak .

In 1985 Tapio Sipilä paused on the international wrestling mat. In the years 1986 to 1988 he was very successful again, as proven by winning the vice world championship title in 1986 in Budapest , the bronze medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and third place at the 1987 European Championships in Tampere .

In 1989, Tapio Sipilä resigned from the international wrestling mat. The father of two sons worked in the following years as a trainer at Muhosken Voitto and as a functionary in the sports association TUL.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Le = lightweight, We = welterweight, Mi = middleweight, then up to 68 kg, 74 kg and 82 kg body weight)

  • 1979, 2nd place , tournament of the sports association TUL in Helsinki, GR, Le, behind Stanislaw Barej , Poland a. before Heikki Liimatainen u. Raimo Markkanen, bde. Finland u. Ivan Atanasov;
  • 1981, 1st place , tournament of the sports association TUL in Helsinki , GR, Le, in front of Bernd Mandelkow, GDR, Plamen Nikolow, Bulgaria, Heikki Liimatainen u. Jozsef Spaczay, Hungary;
  • 1981, 3rd place , EM in Göteborg , GR, Le, with victories over Atle Stöve, Norway , Fikret Polat, Turkey, Iwan Staikow , Bulgaria a. Anatoly Kravchenko et al. a loss to Erich Klaus;
  • 1982, 4th place , tournament of the sports association TUL in Helsinki, GR, We, behind Rif Ganajew, USSR, Stefan Rusu u. Abdullah Mustafin, USSR a. before Rolf Müller, GDR a. Todor Antonov, Bulgaria;
  • 1982, 5th place , World Championships in Katowice , GR, Le, behind Gennadi Jermilow, Istvan Peter, Ștefan Negrișan , Romania a. Vlado Lisjak , Yugoslavia a. in front of Sumer Kocak, Turkey;
  • 1983, 3rd place , EM in Budapest, GR, Le, behind Gennadi Jermilow u. Jerzy Kopanski et al. before Stefan Negrisan, Istvan Peter u. Esa Metin, Turkey;
  • 1983, 1st place , World Championships in Kiev , GR, Le, ahead of Mohamed Bana, Gennadi Jermilow, Istvan Peter, Douglas Yeats , Canada u. Jerzy Kopanski;
  • 1984, 1st place , tournament of the sports association TUL in Vantaa , GR, We, ahead of Stefan Rusu, Timo Niemi u. Ahti Kettunen, bde. Finland;
  • 1985, 2nd place , World Super Championship (unofficial) in Tokyo , GR, Le, behind James Martinez u. before Yasuhiro Okuba, Japan ;
  • 1986, 2nd place , tournament of the sports association TUL in Vantaa, GR, We, behind Jerzy Kopanski u. before Artur Kotandjan, USSR, Pavel Frinta , CSSR , Boitcho Milanow, Bulgaria a. Tuomo Karila , Finland;
  • 1987, 2nd place , tournament of the sports association TUL in Vantaa, GR, We, behind Jaroslaw Zeman , CSSR u. before Anton Arghira, Romania, Evelyn Banew, Bulgaria a. Kai Ikävalko, Finland;
  • 1988, 4th place , EM in Kolbotn / Norway , GR, Le, behind Attila Repka, Petre Cărare u. Lars Lagerborg, Sweden a. before Wassil Iliew, Bulgaria a. Aristidis Grigorakis, Greece ;
  • 1988, bronze medal , OS in Seoul , GR, Le, behind Levon Dschulfalakjan u. Kim Sun-Moon , South Korea a . before Petre Cărare, Jerzy Kopanski u. Yasuhiro Okuba

Finnish championships

  • 1976, 1st place, GR, Le, before Matti Övermark u. Arto Ahonen,
  • 1978, 2nd place, GR, Le, behind Markku Yli-Isotalo u. before Arto Ahonen,
  • 1979, 2nd place, GR, Le, behind Matti Övermark u. in front of Markku Yli-Isotalo,
  • 1980, 1st place, GR, Le, before Jouko Salomäki u. Kari Övermark ,
  • 1981, 2nd place, GR, We, behind Jouko Salomäki u. in front of Timo Lehto,
  • 1982, 1st place, GR, Le, ahead of Heikki Liimatainen u. Hannu Övermark ,
  • 1983, 1st place, GR, Le, ahead of Hannu Övermark a. Jaakko Talvitie ,
  • 1984, 3rd place, GR, We, behind Jouko Salomäki u. Matti Övermark,
  • 1985, 3rd place, GR, We, behind Jouko Salomäki u. Timo Niemi ,
  • 1986, 1st place, GR, Le, ahead of Timo Niemi u. Kari Turunen,
  • 1987, 3rd place, GR, We, behind Jouko Salomäki u. Timo Niemi,
  • 1988, 2nd place, GR, We, behind Tuomo Karila u. before Seppo Salomäki

swell

  • Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 9/1978, page 5, 5/1980, pages 7/8, 6/1980, page 6, 4/1981, page 7, 9/1981, pages 5/6, 9/1982, page 10, 9/1983, page 9, 10/1983, pages 3 to 6, 9/1984, page 10, 5/1986, pages 8/9, 11/1986, pages 6/7, 6/1987, pages 7 to 9, 6/1988, pages 4 to 6, 10/1988, pages 10 to 12
  • Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
  • Website of the Finnish Sports Federation TUL www.tulpaini.fi

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Sipilä, Tapio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiiminki