Vlado Lisjak

Vlado Lisjak (born April 29, 1962 in Petrinje ) is a former Yugoslav wrestler . He was Olympic champion 1984 in Greco-Roman. Lightweight style.

Career

Vlado Lisjak, a Croat, started wrestling at the age of 10 in 1972 at the HK "Gavrilovic" Petrinje wrestling club. There he developed into an excellent young wrestler and was therefore delegated to Zagreb . There he received the finishing touches as a Greco-Roman wrestler from coach Milan Nenadić . His international career began with winning the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships (Juniors = up to the age of 18) in Colorado Springs in the class up to 65 kg body weight. In 1961 he won the bronze medal in the lightweight at the Junior World Championships (Espoirs = up to the age of 20) in Vancouver .

In the seniors, Vlado Lisjak had to fight hard for the starting place at international championships in his own country. Especially Nandor Sabo was a tough competitor for him here. But he was used again at the World Championships in Oslo in 1981 , after he had already taken a good 2nd place in the lightweight lightweight at the Balkan Championships of the same year in Pula . In Oslo he managed only one victory, so that he had to make do with 13th place.

Vlado Lisjak got his next starting opportunity at the 1983 World Cup in Kiev . There he disappointed and after two defeats he left without complaint and only reached 17th place. In 1984 he was initially only intended as a substitute in the lightweight for the Olympic Games in Los Angeles . Nando Sabo injured himself shortly before the games, so he was allowed to start. He then justified his commitment in Los Angeles with great performances. With five straight wins he became Olympic champion . He defeated u. a. the Romanian top wrestler Ștefan Negrișan and in the final battle the reigning world champion Tapio Sipilä from Finland .

After these Olympic Games he was injured several times and couldn't get past Nandor Sabo and Karoly Kasap in Yugoslavia . He soon ended his international wrestling career and completed training as a coach. After the emergence of independent Croatia , he tried a comeback in 1993, starting for "Glumina Banka" Zagreb, but it didn't really work out. So from 1994 he concentrated on his new position as coach of the Croatian national wrestling team in Greco-Roman. Style. An office that he still holds today.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Le = lightweight, We = welterweight, then up to 68 kg or 74 kg body weight)

• 1980, 3rd place , Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Colorado Springs , GR, up to 65 kg body weight, behind Raimund Feser , FRG a . Dietmar Streitler , Austria a . before Andrew Seras, USA a . Said Ahmed Mohsen, Egypt ;
• 1981, 3rd place , Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Vancouver , GR, Le, behind Tibor Dudas , Hungary a . Vyacheslav Bogomolow, USSR a. before Gregorius Flores, Venezuela a . Klaus Müller (wrestler) , FRG;
• 1981, 2nd place , Grand Prix of Austria, GR, Le, behind Gregor Gradzi, Poland a . before Tibor Dudas u. Didier Favori, France ;
• 1981, 2nd place , Balkan Championship in Pula , GR, Le, behind Petar Genchew, Bulgaria a . in front of Sumer Kocak, Turkey , Ion Balcan, Romania a . Dimitrios Sinopoulos, Greece ;
• 1981, 13th place , World Championships in Oslo , GR, Le, with a victory over Douglas Yeats, Canada a . Defeats against Mohammed Banna, Iran a . Ivan Stajkow, Bulgaria;
• 1983, 4th place , Mediterranean Games in Casablanca , GR, Le, behind Jean-Pierre Mercader, France, Gian Carlo Gritti, Italy a. Sumer Kocak;
• 1983, 17th place , World Championship in Kiev , GR, Le, winner: Tapio Sipilä , Finland ahead of Mohammed Banna u. Gennadj Yermilow , USSR;
• 1984, gold medal , OS in Los Angeles , GR, Le, with victories over Nemoto, Japan , Sumer Kocak, Ștefan Negrișan , Romania, Dietmar Streitler u. Tapio Sipilä;
• 1993, 2nd place , tournament in Paris , GR, We, behind Erik Hahn , BRD a. in front of Fchagajew, Russia;
• 1993, 5th place , Mediterranean Games in Languedoc - Roussillon / France, GR, We, behind Martial Mischler , France, Yalcin Karapinar , Turkey, Petros Triantafilidis, Greece a. Mohamed El-Hadad, Morocco

Literature and evidence

• Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 9/1981, page 5, 10/1983, pages 5/6, 9/1984, page 10
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

• Profile of Vlado Lisjak at the Institute for Applied Training Science