Torbjörn Kornbakk

Torbjörn Kornbakk medal table
Wrestler
Sweden
Olympic games
bronze	1992 Barcelona	Welter
World Championship
bronze	1994 Tampere	Welter
European Championship
silver	1989 Oulu	Welter
gold	1990 Poznan	Welter
bronze	1991 Aschaffenburg	Welter
bronze	1994 Athens	Welter
gold	1997 Kouvola	Welter

Torbjörn Jarle Kornbakk (born May 28, 1965 in Gothenburg ) is a former Swedish wrestler .

Career

Torbjörn Kornbakk grew up in Gothenburg. As a teenager he played soccer and liked to swim, but in 1973 he got into wrestling with his brother Martin through a friend . He joined the sports club Örgryte IS Gothenburg and was one of the best Swedish wrestlers in his respective age group as a teenager and junior. He wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style. At 1.79 m tall, he weighed around 76 to 78 kg and was more of a slim, elegant wrestler. With the help of his coach Martin Steen, he made the leap into the Swedish national team at the age of 20. He made his debut at international championships at the European championships in 1988 in Kolbotn / Norway . He took a good 5th place and was the best wrestler from a non-socialist state. At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 Torbjörn was not used yet. The more experienced Roger Tallroth was preferred to him.

In 1989 he was back at the European Championships in Oulu and from then on represented Sweden at many international championships up to 1998. In Oulu he took an excellent 2nd place. In the final he lost to Petar Tenew from Bulgaria . At the world championship of the same year in Martigny / Switzerland he had to be content with a 9th place.

Torbjörn won his first international title in 1990. He became European champion in Poznan . In a purely Scandinavian final, he defeated the Finn Tuomo Karila . At the World Cup in Rome in 1990 he delivered some good fights again, but ended up in 6th place.

He also won a medal again at the European Championships in Aschaffenburg in 1991 , while finishing 10th at the World Championships in the same year.

In the 1992 Olympic year, he won a medal in Barcelona when he took part in the Olympic Games for the first time. In the battle for the bronze medal, he won over Néstor Almanza from Cuba after failing in the semifinals against the Poland Josef Tracz .

In 1993, due to an injury, he was only able to take part in the World Championships held in Stockholm in autumn . Of course he would have liked to win a medal in his home country, but because of a defeat against the French Yvon Riemer in the battle for the bronze medal, he only came in 4th place.

But he was again very successful in 1994, because he won the bronze medal at both the European Championships in Athens and the World Championships in Tampere . At the world championship he was defeated by his old rival Mnazakan Iskandarjan from Russia just on points and defeated Stoyan Stoyanow from Bulgaria in the battle for the bronze medal.

After Torbjörn was out due to injury in 1995, he was back on the mat from 1996 to 1998. But he only got a top spot at the 1997 European Championships in Kouvola . He was European champion for the second time. In the final battle he defeated Marko Asell from Finland . At the Olympic Games in 1996 he had previously landed on the 10th place, which was disappointing for him.

After he only came in 22nd place at the 1998 World Cup in his own country, namely in Gävle , after two defeats against the Armenian Levan Geghamyan and the Japanese Takamitsu Katayama , he ended his international career.

Torbjörn Kornbakk was also very well known in Germany , because he competed successfully for KSV Witten in the Bundesliga for many years . He now works as a chiropractor in his hometown.

The results of the championships and some other tournaments in which Torbjörn Kornbakk participated can be seen in the following section.

International championships

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greek-Roman style, We = welterweight, up to 1996 up to 74 kg and from 1997 up to 76 kg body weight)

• 1988, 5th place , EM in Kolbotn / Norway , GR, We, behind Bissolt Dezijew , USSR , Jaroslaw Zeman , CSSR , Janos Takacs , Hungary and Josef Tracz , Poland and in front of Borislaw Welitschkow, Bulgaria;
• 1989, 2nd place , EM in Oulu , GR, We, behind Petar Tenew, Bulgaria and in front of Zeman, Dezijew, Tracz and Jouko Salomäki , Finland ;
• 1989, 9th place , World Championship in Martigny / Switzerland , GR, We, winner: Daulet Turlychanow , USSR ahead of Anton Arghire, Romania , Petar Tenew and Udo Ruggaber , FRG ;
• 1990, 1st place , EM in Posen , GR, We, ahead of Tuomo Karila , Finland, Zeman, Tracz, Ruggaber and Arghira;
• 1990, 6th place , World Championship in Rome , GR, We, behind Mnazakan Iskandarjan , USSR, Dobri Marinow, Bulgaria, Zeliko Traykovic, Yugoslavia , Janos Takacs, Hungary and Tracz;
• 1990, 2nd place , World Cup, GR, We, behind Dezijew and ahead of Néstor Almanza , Cuba , Gordy Morgan, USA and Ali Akbar, Iran ;
• 1991, 3rd place , EM in Aschaffenburg , GR, We, behind Iskandarjan and Karila and in front of Takacs, Yvon Riemer , France and Anton Marchl, Austria ;
• 1991, 10th place , World Championships in Varna , GR, We, winner: Iskandarian ahead of Zeman and Riemer;
• 1992, 6th place , EM in Copenhagen , Gr, We, behind Mircea Constantin, Romania, Iskandarjan, Riemer, Erkan Balci, Turkey and Takacs;
• 1992, bronze medal , OS in Barcelona , GR, We, behind Iskandarjan and Tracz and in front of Almanza, Riemer and Marchl;
• 1993, 3rd place , Baltic Sea Games, GR, We, behind Sergej Poperetschni, Russia and Martin Kornbakk , Sweden and in front of Pasi Sarkkinen, Finland and Robert Zevtovski, Poland;
• 1993, 4th place , World Championships in Stockholm , GR, We, behind Almanza, Tracz and Riemer and in front of Yalcin Karapinar, Turkey and Stojan Dobrew , Bulgaria;
• 1994, 1st place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Koblenz , GR, We, ahead of Riemer, Zeman, Roy Andersen, Norway and Josi Bojkow, Bulgaria;
• 1994, 3rd place , EM in Athens , GR, We, behind Erol Koyuncu , Turkey and Wladimir Kopytow , Belarus and in front of Constantin, Artur Dzigasow, Ukraine and Zeliko Traikow, Bosnia-Herzegovina;
• 1994, 3rd place , World Championships in Tampere , GR, We, behind Iskandarjan and Tracz and in front of Stojan Dobrew, Bulgaria, Constantin and G. Abramian, Armenia ;
• 1996, 5th place , EM in Budapest , GR, We, behind Nazmi Avluca , Turkey, Kopytow, Erik Hahn , Germany and Dzigasow and in front of Iskandarian;
• 1996, 4th place , tournament in Faenza , GR, We, behind Filiberto Azcuy , Cuba, Attila Repka , Hungary and Erik Hahn and in front of Anton Marchl;
• 1996, 10th place , OS in Atlanta , GR, We, winner Azcuy ahead of Marko Asell , Finland, Tracz, Hahn and Iskandarjan;
• 1997, 1st place , tournament in Nyíregyháza / Hungary, GR, We, ahead of Andrei Battura, Russia, Asell, Attila Bátky , Slovakia and Dalibor Busic, Yugoslavia;
• 1997, 1st place , EM in Kouvola / Finland, GR, We, ahead of Asell, Riemer, Kopytow, Valeri Kopajew, Russia and Khvicha Bichinaschwili, Georgia ;
• 1998, 1st place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Aalen , GR, We, ahead of Ghani Yalouz , France, Dmitri Avramis, Greece, Erik Hahn, Marko Yli-Hannuksela , Finland and Busic;
• 1998, 13th place , FILA test tournament, GR. We, after losing to Attila Bátky , Ukraine and defeating Georg David, Austria; Winner: Ascuy ahead of Konstantin Schneider , Germany and Attik Tedeschi, Italy;
• 1998, 22nd place , World Cup in Gävle / Sweden , GR, We, after defeats against Levan Geghumyan, Armenia and Takamitsu Katayama , Japan; Winner: Bakhtiar Baseitow, Kazakhstan ahead of Azcuy and Avluca

Swedish championships

Torbjörn Kornbakk was founded in 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997 a. 1998 Swedish Greterweight Champion in Greco-Roman style.

swell

• Trade journal "Der Ringer" Nos .: 6/88, 10/88, 5/89, 9/89, 5/90, 11/90, 5/91, 10/91, 5/92, 9/92, 10 / 93, 4/94, 5/94, 9/94, 5/95, 4/96, 8/96, 9/96, 6/97, 6/97, 7/8/98 and 9/98
• International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig

Web links

• Profile of Torbjörn Kornbakk at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Torbjörn Kornbakk in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )