Tomas Johansson

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Tomas Johansson in January 2014

Karl Tomas Ingemar Johansson (born July 20, 1962 in Haparanda ) is a former Swedish wrestler . He was world champion 1986 and winner of the Olympic silver medal 1992 in Barcelona in Greco-Roman style in the super heavyweight division.

Career

Tomas Johansson started wrestling at Haparanda SKT as a teenager in 1972. He was a member of this club from 1972 to 1997. His coaches throughout his long career have been L. Myllari, Olle Björken and Pelle Stalnaeke . At the beginning of his career Johansson started in both styles of freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman, later he focused on the Greco-Roman style. At the beginning he was still a heavyweight (up to 100 kg body weight) in the junior division and in 1979 took 6th place in this class at the junior European championships in the local Haparanda in the Greco-Roman style. Then Johansson switched to the super heavyweight (at that time up to 130 kg body weight) and in 1981 was the first Swedish champion in the seniors in the Greco-Roman style. That same year, Johansson started with 19 years ago for the first time at the European Championships in Greco-Roman wrestling in Gothenburg , where he finished a respectable 5th place. At the world championships of the same year in Oslo he confirmed this performance with a 6th place.

While Tomas Johansson won a medal in the junior division at all major tournaments, success in the senior division was a long time coming. At the 1983 World Championships in Kiev Johansson reached 7th place and a year later missed a medal in freestyle with 4th place at the European Championships in Jönköping . It also came in 6th in the Greco-Roman style.

At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , due to the absence of Eastern European competition, the sporting level for an international tournament was relatively weak. Johansson took advantage of this opportunity and won his first medal in the senior category with the silver medal in the super heavyweight division. The joy about it did not last long, however, as Johansson was disqualified due to the proven use of prohibited muscle-promoting substances and had to return his medal . Furthermore, all competitions were banned for a year.

After the ban, Tomas Johansson returned to the wrestling mat more successfully than ever before. First he won the bronze medal in Greco-Roman at the 1986 European Championships in Athens in the super heavyweight division. Style in which he wrestled exclusively from then on. Then Johansson surprisingly won the world title in the same year at the World Championships in Budapest . In the final he defeated the Soviet top favorite Vladimir Grigoryev on points.

In 1987 Johansson became vice-European and vice-world champions. He failed each time because of the strong Soviet champion Igor Rostorozki , but was able to beat the strong Bulgarian champion Rangel Gerowski twice . In spring 1988 Tomas Johansson started at the European Championships in Kolbotn, Norway . Among his opponents was for the first time the exceptional Soviet athlete Alexander Karelin , who was 20 years old at the time and had not yet lost an international comparison. This incredible streak would last another 12 years.

Tomas Johansson won several medals behind Karelin in his further career. In 1988 he won the Olympic bronze medal. In the following year, he also took bronze at the European and World Championships. In 1990 Johansson even became vice world champion behind Karelin in Rome and vice European champion a year later in Aschaffenburg . At the 1991 World Cup in Varna , however, his streak of success came to an abrupt end when he failed in the first round against the German champion Raimund Edfelder . Both wrestlers failed to score during the fight, were disqualified and together ended up in last place.

At the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 Johansson reached the final and ultimately only had to admit defeat to series winner Alexander Karelin, who shouldered him after 1:33 minutes. In 1993, the Olympic final was reissued during the World Championships in Stockholm. Here too, the winner was Alexander Karelin. Tomas Johansson ultimately won the bronze medal, which would be his last medal at an international championship.

In the following years, Tomas Johansson finished 4th to 7th at international championships. He showed more and more that he no longer has his old level of performance. Up until now, only Alexander Karelin represented an insurmountable barrier for Johansson, but more and more often he had to face a new generation of wrestlers, such as B. Matt Ghaffari , Piotr Kotok , Sergei Mureiko and Juha Ahokas give way. Therefore, Thomas Johansson ended his international wrestling career after the 1996 Olympic Games.

Johansson started for the German Bundesliga club SV "Siegfried" Hallbergmoos until 1998 and then for one year for BK "Loke" Gävle , before finally saying goodbye to the mat. Today he works as a trainer and leads seminars on wrestling.

In 1986 Johansson received the Svenska Dagbladet gold medal and was awarded the radio sport Jerringpris .

Competition balance (overview)

year competition place space Style Weight class
1979 U20 European Championships Haparanda 6th Greco-Roman Heavyweight
1980 Junior European Championships Bursa 3 Greco-Roman Heavyweight
1980 World cup Trelleborg 3 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1981 International tournament Västerås 3 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1981 U20 world championships Vancouver 3 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1981 European championships Gothenburg 5 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1981 World championships Oslo 6th Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1982 U20 European Championships Leipzig 3 Freestyle Super heavyweight
1982 U20 European Championships Leipzig 3 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1983 International tournament Klippan 3 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1983 International tournament Warsaw 3 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1983 World championships Kiev 7th Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1984 European championships Jonkoping 4th Freestyle Super heavyweight
1984 European championships Jonkoping 6th Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1984 Olympic Summer Games los Angeles without * Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1986 European championships Athens 3 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1986 World championships Budapest 1 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1987 European championships Tampere 2 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1987 World championships Clermont-Ferrand 2 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1988 European championships Kolbotn 3 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1988 Olympic Summer Games Seoul 3 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1989 European championships Oulu 3 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1989 World championships Martigny 3 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1990 Grand Prix Budapest 3 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1990 World championships Rome 2 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1991 European championships Aschaffenburg 2 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1991 World championships Varna 16 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1992 European championships Copenhagen 11 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1992 Olympic Summer Games Barcelona 2 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1993 Nordic Championship Herning 1 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1993 World championships Stockholm 3 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1994 World championships Tampere 4th Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1995 European championships Besançon 7th Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1995 World championships Prague 6th Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1996 European championships Budapest 6th Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1996 Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 7th Greco-Roman Super heavyweight

* 2nd place subsequently withdrawn due to doping

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = freestyle, S = heavyweight, SS = super heavyweight, back then up to 100 kg or 130 kg body weight)

  • 1979, 6th place , Junior European Championship (Juniors = up to the age of 18) in Haparanda , GR, S, behind Valeri Zokolajew, USSR , Tamás Gáspár , Hungary , Tzeko Popow, Bulgaria , Wieslaw Josczyk, Poland a . Ion Stignei, Romania ;
  • 1980, 3rd place , Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Bursa , GR, S, behind Tamás Gáspár u. Vyacheslav Klimenko , USSR;
  • 1980, 3rd place , World Cup in Trelleborg , GR, SS, behind Oleksandr Koltschynskyj , USSR a. Jeffrey Blatnick , USA ;
  • 1981, 3rd place , tournament in Västerås , GR, SS, behind Henryk Tomanek , Poland a . Ivan Karpatskin, USSR a. before Krystian Shomka, Poland a. József Balla , Hungary;
  • 1981, 3rd place , Junior World Championships (Espoirs = up to the age of 20) in Vancouver , GR, SS, behind Igor Rostorozki , USSR a. Stoicho Stoitchkow, Bulgaria a. before Kurt Olsson, USA, John Tenta, Canada a. Laszlo Kofalfvi, Hungary;
  • 1981, 5th place , EM in Gothenburg , GR, SS, with victories over Karl Hug , BRD a . Provislav Ilic , Yugoslavia a . Defeats against Henryk Tomanek u. Rangel Gerowski , Bulgaria;
  • 1981, 6th place , World Championships in Oslo , GR, SS, with victories over Arturo Diaz, Cuba a . Kjell Svanum, Norway a . Defeats against Nikola Dinew , Bulgaria, Evgeni Artjuchin , USSR a. Karl Hug;
  • 1982, 3rd place , Junior EM (Espoirs) in Leipzig , F, SS, behind Hassan Zangiew, USSR a. Heiko Geffke, GDR;
  • 1982, 3rd place , Junior European Championship (Espoirs) in Leipzig, GR, SS, behind Igor Rostorozki u. László Köfalvi, Hungary;
  • 1983, 3rd place , tournament in Klippan , GR, SS, behind Evgeni Artjuchin u. Nikola Dinew et al. before Roman Wrocławski , Poland;
  • 1983, 3rd place , "Wladyslaw-Pytlasinski" tournament in Warsaw , GR, SS, behind Henryk Tomanek u. Slawomir Zrobek , both Poles;
  • 1983, 7th place , World Championships in Kiev , GR, SS, behind Evgeni Artjuchin, Nikola Dinew, Candido Mesa, Cuba, József Nagy , Hungary, Refik Memišević , Yugoslavia a. Henryk Tomanek ;
  • 1984, 4th place , EM in Jönköping , F, SS, behind Salman Chassimikow , USSR, Adam Sandurski , Poland a. Andreas Schröder , GDR;
  • 1984, 6th place , EM in Jönköping, GR, SS, with a victory over Cinan Kenan, Turkey a . Losses against Refik Memišević u. Victor Dolipschi , Romania; in the fight against Henryk Tomanek Johanson could not compete due to injury;
  • 1984, unplaced , OS in Los Angeles , GR, SS; actually winning the silver medal with a victory over Hassan El-Haddad, Egypt , a double disqualification in the fight against Victor Dolipschi and a point loss against Jeffrey Blatnick , USA; afterwards disqualification for doping and return of the silver medal;
  • 1986, 3rd place , EM in Athens , GR, SS, behind Nikola Dinew u. Nikolai Makarenko, USSR a. before Roman Wrocławski, László Tóth , Hungary a. Ioan Grigoraș , Romania;
  • 1986, 1st place , World Championships in Budapest , GR, SS, ahead of Wladimir Grigorjew , USSR, László Klauz , Hungary, Duane Koslowski , USA, Ioan Grigoraș u. Andreas Schröder;
  • 1987, 2nd place , EM in Tampere , GR, SS, behind Igor Rostorozki u. before Rangel Gerowski , Ioan Grigoraș, Fabio Valguarnera, Italy a. László Klauz;
  • 1987, 2nd place , World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand , GR, SS, behind Igor Rostorozki u. before Rangel Gerowski, Ioan Grigoraș, Duane Koslowski u. Alexander Neumüller , Austria ;
  • 1988, 3rd place , EM in Kolbotn / Norway , GR, SS behind Alexander Karelin , USSR a. Krassimir Radojew , Bulgaria a. in front of Cinan Kenan, Ioan Grigoraș u. Slawomir Zrobek;
  • 1988, bronze medal , OS in Seoul , GR, SS, behind Alexander Karelin u. Rangel Gerowski u. before Hassan el Haddad, Kazuja Deguchi, Japan a. László Klauz;
  • 1989, 3rd place , EM in Oulu , GR, SS, behind Alexander Karelin u. Slawomir Zrobek u. before György Kekes , Hungary, Krassimir Radojew u. Juha Ahokas , Finland ;
  • 1989, 3rd place , World Championships in Martigny / Switzerland , GR, SS, behind Alexander Karelin u. László Klauz u. before Krassimir Radojew, Andrew Borodow , Canada a . Alain Bifrare, Switzerland;
  • 1990, 3rd place , Grand Prix in Budapest , GR, SS, behind Sergei Mureiko , USSR a. László Klauz;
  • 1990, 2nd place , World Championships in Rome , GR, SS, behind Alexander Karelin u. before Rangel Gerowski , László Klauz u. Matt Ghaffari , USA;
  • 1991, 2nd place , EM in Aschaffenburg , GR, SS, behind Alexander Karelin u. before György Kekes, Panagiotis Pikilidis , Greece , Raimund Edfelder , Germany a . Alexander Neumüller;
  • 1991, 16th place , World Championships in Varna , GR, SS, winner: Alexander Karelin in front of Matt Ghaffari u. Rangel Gerowski ;
  • 1992, 11th place , EM in Copenhagen , GR, SS, winner: Alexander Karelin in front of Ioan Grigoraș u. György Kekes;
  • 1992, silver medal , OS in Barcelona , GR, SS, behind Alexander Karelin u. before Ioan Grigoraș, László Klauz, Andrew Borodew a. Lei Tian, PR China ;
  • 1993, 1st place , Nordic Championship in Herning / DK, GR, SS in front of Juha Ahokas u. Madis Ounapuu, Estonia ;
  • 1993, 3rd place , World Championships in Stockholm , GR, SS, behind Alexander Karelin u. Sergei Mureiko, Moldova a. in front of Pjotr ​​Kotok , Ukraine , László Klauz u. Huringa, China;
  • 1994, 4th place , World Championships in Tampere , GR, SS, behind Alexander Karelin, Héctor Milián , Cuba a. Pyotr Kotok u. before Mele Radakovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina a. Matt Ghaffari;
  • 1995, 7th place , EM in Besançon , GR, SS, behind Alexander Karelin, Saban Donat, Turkey, Sergei Mureiko, Juha Ahokas, Pjotr ​​Kotoi u. Raimund Edfelder;
  • 1995, 6th place , World Championships in Prague , GR, SS, behind Alexander Karelin, Sergei Mureiko, Matt Ghaffari, Juha Ahokas u. Yuri Evseitschik, Ukraine;
  • 1996, 6th place , EM in Budapest, GR, SS behind Alexander Karelin, Pjotr ​​Kotok, Sergei Mureiko, Juha Ahokas u. René Schiekel , Germany;
  • 1996, 7th place , OS in Atlanta , GR, SS, behind Alexander Karelin, Matt Ghaffari, Sergei Mureiko, Pjotr ​​Kotok, Panagiotis Pikilidis u. René Schiekel

Swedish championships

Tomas Johansson won sixteen times (1981-84 and 1986-97) the Swedish championship in the Greco-Roman style in the super heavyweight class.

swell

  • 1) Div. Issues of the journal "Der Ringer" from 1979 to 1997,
  • 2) Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Doping Irregularities at the Olympics sports-reference.com
  2. Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games - Chronicle III: Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , p. 1080 .