Toni Hannula

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Toni Leander Hannula (born April 30, 1962 in Rovaniemi ) is a former Finnish wrestler , winner of the bronze medal at the 1985 European Championships in the Greco-Roman style light heavyweight.

Career

Toni Hannula began in 1970 when Ringer club Lapin Lukko , where he remained until 1975, with the rings . Like the wrestling club Muhoksen Voitto , for which Toni Hannula competed from 1976 until the end of his career, this club belonged to the Finnish workers' sports association TUL . However, due to an agreement, the athletes of this association were able to compete in all championships of the associations belonging to the FILA world wrestling association.

From 1976 on, Toni Hannula took top positions in the youth division at the championships of the Finnish Wrestling Association and the Sports Association TUL in the respective age groups. In 1979, at the age of 17, he won the championship of the TUL sports association in Greco-Roman for the first time. Light heavyweight style. In total, he was champion of this association nine times. His first Finnish championship of the national wrestling federation he won 1982 also in Greco-Roman. Light heavyweight style. Altogether he was Finnish champion four times by 1997 and achieved fourteen placements in places 1 to 3, although he took a break from 1990 to 1995 for professional reasons, in which he did not participate in any championships.

Toni Hannula had two tough competitors in his weight class in Finland in Keijo Manni and Harri Koskela . These three athletes competed for the starting place in the international championships. Toni Hannula managed to fight for this starting place several times between 1983 and 1987. So he was at the world championship in 1983 in Kiev in the light heavyweight division in Greco-Roman. Style at the start. But he had to pay the hard way there and only came in 13th place.

He achieved a lot more at the European Championships in Jönköping in 1984 . He won three fights there, especially his victory over Ilie Matei from Romania is noteworthy, but lost against Atanas Komtschew from Bulgaria a . Georgios Pozidis , Greece . He took an honorable 4th place. Toni Hannula also competed at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles . With one win and two defeats he reached a good 7th place there.

Toni Hannula achieved the greatest success in his international wrestling career at the 1985 European Championships in Leipzig . Thanks to his very good performances, he came in third behind Igor Kanygin from the USSR and Ilie Matei, but ahead of Andrzej Malina from Poland and Franz Pitschmann from Austria .

In 1987 he made his last start in an international championship at the World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand . He came in the heavyweight division on 10th place.

Toni Hannula also competed regularly in the international tournaments of his association TUL from 1980 to 1986. A part of the world's elite was always gathered at these tournaments because the Eastern Bloc countries of that time were always represented with strong wrestlers. He regularly achieved very good places at these tournaments and even won this tournament in 1984.

International success

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

  • 1981, 2nd place , tournament of the sports association TUL in Helsinki, GR, Hs, behind Ion Draica , Romania a . before Nikolai Rutin, USSR, Plamen Markowski, Bulgaria a . Jorma Niemi, Finland;
  • 1982, 2nd place , tournament of the sports association TUL in Helsinki, GR, Hs, behind Ion Draica u. before Ilie Matei , Romania, Uwe Witthuhn, GDR a. Ludomir Petrow, Bulgaria;
  • 1982, 3rd place , Junior European Championship (Espoirs = up to the age of 20) in Leipzig , GR, Hs, behind Anatoli Fedorenko , USSR a. Julian Wassiljew, Bulgaria;
  • 1984, 1st place , tournament of the sports association TUL in Helsinki, GR, Hs, in front of Roman Belkin, USSR, Heikki Jantunen u. Harri Koskela , bde. Finland u. Nikolai Epschistow, Bulgaria;
  • 1984, 4th place , EM in Jönköping , GR, Hs, with victories over Jean-Francois Court, France , Adrian Berg von Linde, Sweden a. Ilie Matei et al. Defeats against Atanas Komchev a. Georgios Pozidis , Greece ;
  • 1984, 2nd place , World Cup in Seinäjoki / Finland, GR, Hs, behind Igor Kanygin u. before Atanas Komtschew, Steve Fraser u. Salah, Egypt ;
  • 1985, 3rd place , tournament in Bucharest , GR, Hs, behind Ilie Matei u. Havas Mulayev, USSR;
  • 1986, 2nd place , tournament of the sports association TUL in Vantaa , GR, Hs, behind Rafael Samurgatschew, USSR a. before Harri Koskela, Ilja Wentow, Bulgaria a. Raima Laine, Finland;

Finnish championships

  • 1981, 2nd place, GR, Hs, behind Risto Salopuro u. before Timo Perimäki,
  • 1981, 2nd place, F, Hs, behind Jarmo Övermark u. in front of Tomi Niemi ,
  • 1982, 1st place, GR, Hs, ahead of Asko Takala a. Jorma Haatainen,
  • 1982, 3rd place, F, Hs, behind Timo Lehto u. Risto Remsu,
  • 1983, 1st place, GR, Hs, ahead of Markku Latvala u. Hannu Kinnenen,
  • 1984, 1st place, GR, Hs, ahead of Harri Koskela u. Hannu Kinnunen,
  • 1985, 1st place, GR, Hs, before Risto Remsu u. Harri Koskela,
  • 1986, 3rd place, GR, Hs, behind Jarmo Övermark u. Kari Lehtonen,
  • 1987, 3rd place, GR, Hs, behind Harri Koskela u. Jarmo Övermark,
  • 1988, 2nd place, GR, Hs, behind Harri Koskela u. before Raimo Laine,
  • 1989, 2nd place, GR, S, behind Keijo Manni u. before Jouni Ilomäki ,
  • 1996, 3rd place, GR, S, behind Harri Koskela u. in front of Jani Manni,
  • 1996, 3rd place, F, S, behind Jani Manni u. Mika Sinisalo,
  • 1997, 2nd place, GR, S, behind Jani Manni u. before Jussi ketones

Championships of the sports association TUL

Toni Hannula became champion of the sports association TUL in 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985 and 1987 in the light heavyweight division and 1984 and 1986 in the heavyweight division, each in the Greco-Roman style.

swell

  • Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 5/1984, page 9, 9/1984, page 11 and 5/1985, page 5
  • Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
  • Website of the TUL sports association www.tulpaini.fi

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Hannula, Toni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hannula, Toni Leander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Rovaniemi