Tibor Komáromi

Tibor Komáromi (born August 14, 1964 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian wrestler .

Career

Tibor Komáromi started wrestling in Budapest in 1973 at the age of nine. He trained very diligently and, equipped with great wrestling talent, achieved excellent results as a teenager. After a few detours, he ended up at the top Hungarian club "Ferencvaros" Budapest, where Attila Nádasi was his coach. At the age of 19 he won his first Hungarian championship in the Greco-Roman style seniors. He first appeared on the international wrestling stage in 1982 at a World Cup in Budapest, where he took a good third place in the welterweight division. In the next few years he contested many international championships, was world and European champion, but he did not succeed in an Olympic victory. His coaches at that time were László Vatai and János Szanyi.

He started with the Junior World Championships in 1983, where he won the silver medal, beaten by the exceptional Soviet wrestler Mikhail Mamiashvili , with whom he would fight out some tough ostriches in the next few years. At the European Junior Championships in 1984 he won his first title ahead of Stafan Iwailow from Bulgaria.

For the first time at a senior European championship he started in 1984, but still had to pay hardship when he lost in the 2nd round against the Swede Sören Claesson and had to retire.

In 1985, however, he won his first international championship medal in the seniors. In Leipzig he became vice European middleweight champion.

1986 was a great year for Komáromi. In spring he was European champion in Athens and in autumn world champion in Budapest. In Athens the jury decided in his fight against world champion Bogdan Daras from Poland , when both wrestlers had already received two warnings, which led to the disqualification of Daras. In Budapest he fought again against Daras in the final. This time both wrestlers were disqualified, which meant that according to the regulations, both wrestlers had to be placed in 2nd place. A world title was not awarded. At the FILA Congress next year, however, this decision was revised and both wrestlers were declared world champions. However, there was no legal basis for this in the statute.

In 1987 he was again world middleweight champion in Clermont-Ferrand , after a certain final victory over Roger Gössner from Germany .

In 1988 he lost to the Soviet star athlete Mikhail Mamiashvili, who had moved up from welterweight to middleweight, on points in the EM middleweight finals in Kolbotn, Norway and also in the finals of the Olympic Games in Seoul , and each time he had to be satisfied with 2nd place.

At the 1989 World Cup in Martigny , he started again in the middleweight division and won his third world championship title there. For the first time he also managed a victory over Mamiashvili.

From 1990 to 1992 he started in the light heavyweight division, because "weight making" for the middleweight division increasingly caused problems. In this weight class he could not achieve such great success as in the middleweight division. The result was three bronze medals at the European Championships in 1990, 1991 and 1992. At the European Championships in 1991, he beat the not in good shape double world champion Maik Bullmann from Frankfurt (Oder) in the battle for the bronze medal on points.

At the 1991 World Cup, he wrestled again against Bullmann in the third round. Both wrestlers were taken off the mat for passivity. While Komáromi had to retire because of this, Bullmann was able to stay in the competition and even became world champion.

In the next tournaments Komáromi could no longer place himself in the front field, although he even trained back into the middleweight division. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , he only finished 11th.

His career came to a conciliatory conclusion in 1994 with a victory in a World Cup tournament in Kecskemét .

The results of the international championships that Tibor Komáromi contested can be read in the following section.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greek-Roman style, We = welterweight, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, at that time up to 74 kg, 82 kg or 90 kg body weight)

• 1982, 3rd place , World Cup tournament in Budapest , GR, We, behind Karl-Heinz Helbing , BRD a . Vladimir Arsenev, USSR ,
• 1983, 2nd place , Junior World Championships (Espoirs), GR, We, behind Michail Mamiaschwili , USSR a. before Petar Tenew, Bulgaria ;
• 1984, 1st place , Junior EM (Espoirs), GR, Hs, ahead of Stefan Iwailow, Bulgaria a. Valery Greduchko, USSR;
• 1984, 7th place , EM in Jönköping , GR, Wed, Wed victory over Karoly Kopacs, Yugoslavia and a defeat against Sören Claesson , Sweden ;
• 1985, 2nd place , EM in Leipzig , GR, Wed, with victory over Suzan, Turkey , Rolleczeck, GDR , Sorin Herțea , Romania a . a loss to Abdul Batalow, USSR;
• 1986, 1st place , EM in Athens , GR, Wed, ahead of Bogdan Daras , Poland , Taimuraz Abchazawa , USSR, Angel Butschew, Bulgaria a. Sorin Herțea;
• 1986, 1st place , World Championships in Budapest , GR, Wed, together with Daras u. before Magnus Fredriksson , Sweden, Sorin Herțea u. Sergei Nassewitsch , USSR;
• 1987, 3rd place , EM in Tampere , GR, Wed, behind Nassewitsch u. Darss u. before Sorin Herțea u. Roger Gössner , FRG;
• 1987, 1st place , Grand Prix tournament, Gr, Wed, in front of Ernesto Razzino, Italy a . Nail Aliyamschew, USSR;
• 1987, 1st place , FILA Grand Prix tournament in Budapest, GR, Wed, in front of Bogdan Daras u. Sorin Herțea;
• 1987, 1st place , World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand , GR, Wed, ahead of Gössner, Nassewitsch, Sorin Herțea, Jari Salomäki , Finland a . Bogdan Daras;
• 1988, 2nd place , EM in Kolbotn / Norway, GR, Wed, behind Mamiaschwili u. before Timo Niemi, Finland, Miroslaw Stefan, Bulgaria, Maik Bullmann , GDR a. Sorin Herțea;
• 1988, silver medal , OS in Seoul , GR, Wed, behind Mamiaschwili u. before Kim Sang-Kyu, South Korea , Stig Kleven, Norway a. Goram Kasum, Yugoslavia;
• 1989, 4th place , EM in Oulu , GR, Wed, behind Mamiaschwili, Pjotr ​​Stepien , Poland a. Olaf Koschnitzke , GDR a. before Kleven u. Sorin Herțea;
• 1989, 1st place , World Championship in Martigny / Switzerland , GR, Wed, ahead of Mamiaschwili, Magnus Fredriksson, Sweden, Niemi, John Morgan, USA a . Casum:
• 1990, 2nd place , Grand Prix tournament, GR, Hs, behind Pawel Potapow , USSR a. before Andreas Steinbach , FRG;
• 1990, 3rd place , EM in Posen , GR, Hs, behind Potapow a. Marek Kraszewski, Poland a. before Iwailo Jordanow , Bulgaria a. Steinbach;
• 1991, 3rd place , EM in Aschaffenburg , GR, Hs, behind Potapow a. Jordanow et al. in front of Bullmann, Pajo Ivosevic, Yugoslavia a. Mikael Ljungberg , Sweden;
• 1991, 12th place , World Cup in Varna , GR, Hs, winner: Bullmann in front of Reynaldo Pena , Cuba , Harri Koskela , Finland, Ivosevic u. Jordanow;
• 1992, 3rd place , EM in Copenhagen , GR, Hs, behind Bullmann u. Jordanow et al. before Iordanis Konstantinidis, Greece , Salvatore Campanella, Italy a. Koskela;
• 1992, 11th place , OS in Barcelona , GR, Hs, winner: Bullmann in front of Hakki Bazaar , Turkey , Gogi Koguaschwili , GUS u. Ljungberg;
• 1994, 10th place , EM in Athens, GR, Wed, winner: Thomas Zander , FRG ahead of Gocha Tschitschiaschwili, Israel a. Nassewitsch;
• 1994, 16th place , World Championships in Tampere , GR, Wed, winner: Zander in front of Tuomo Karila , Finland a. Valeri Tsilent , Belarus ;
• 1994, 1st place , World Cup tournament in Kecskemét , GR, Wed, in front of Daniel Hendersson, USA a. Monhy Abdel Hareth, Egypt

Hungarian championships

Tibor Komáromi was eleven times in a row Hungarian champion in the middle and light heavyweight (Greco-Roman style) from 1983 to 1994.

Web links

• Short biography of Tibor Komáromi in Hungarian with pictures