Wladyslaw Stecyk

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Władysław Stecyk (* 14. July 1951 in Radowo Małe ) is a former Polish wrestler and silver medalist at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow in free style flyweight.

Career

Władysław Stecyk began as a teenager with the sports club LKS Zieloni Stargard Szceciński with the wrestling . Later he moved to the top Polish club WKS Grunwald Poznań . With a height of 1.56 m and a weight of 52 kg he always wrestled in the flyweight as an adult, whereby he specialized entirely in free style. In the course of his long career he has worked with a number of coaches: Jan Michalczyszyn, Michal Szachow, Pietko Sirakow, Jan Frankiewicz, Józef Wojtasik, Ludvik Kuflowski and Eugeniusz Najmark.

In 1972 Stecyk was the first Polish flyweight champion. In the same year he made his debut at an international championship at the European Championships in Katowice , but only came in 9th place there. In 1974 Władysław Stecyk won his first medal, the bronze, at the European Flyweight Championships in Madrid . He repeated this success a year later in Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

In 1976 Stecyk was also used at the Olympic Games in Montreal . He performed well there and won u. a. about the Bulgarian Nermedin Selimow . But he was defeated by Alexander Ivanov from the Soviet Union and the outstanding Japanese Yūji Takada and reached 6th place.

Stecyk was very successful in 1977. First he won the bronze medal again at the European Championships in Bursa in the spring and in autumn he was even runner-up in the flyweight world championship in Lausanne . He achieved remarkable victories over the top wrestlers Henryk Gál from Hungary , Hartmut Reich from the GDR and Nermedin Selimow. Only against Yuji Takada did he lose again.

Stecyk won further bronze medals at the European Championships in Sofia in 1978 and in Prievidza in 1980 . In Prievidza he also defeated the German master Fritz Niebler .

The 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow were the highlight of Władysław Stecyk's career . He competed there in excellent form, won five fights and was only defeated by the Soviet athlete Anatoly Beloglasow . For this achievement he was rewarded with the silver medal .

The last medal at an international championship Stecyk finally won at the European championship in Budapest in 1983 , when he finished third behind the new superstar Valentin Jordanow from Bulgaria and Šaban Trstena from Yugoslavia .

1985 Władysław Stecyk resigned from international wrestling events. However, in 1988 he made a comeback and was nominated for the Olympic Games in Seoul . He again wrestled in flyweight, won his first two fights, but then retired after three defeats and finished 11th.

Polish championships

In 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1988 and 1995, Władysław Stecyk became the Polish fly and bantamweight champion.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, Fl = flyweight)

  • 1973, 1st place , tournament in Poznań , F, Fl, ahead of Heinz Nettesheim, FRG, and Kalitka, Poland;
  • 1973, 5th place , EM in Lausanne , F, Fl, with a victory over Mario Sabattini and defeats against Ali Riza Alan , Turkey , and Henryk Gál;
  • 1973, 2nd place , tournament in Łódź , F, Fl, behind Wieslaw Konczak and in front of Mario Sabattini;
  • 1975, 3rd place , EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , F, Fl, with victories over Maurice Bourdin, France , and Giuseppe Bognanni, Italy , and defeats against Ognajan Nikolow and Ali Riza Alan;
  • 1975, 5th place , World Championships in Minsk , F, Fl, with a victory over Ali Riza Alan and defeats against Ion Arapu , Romania , and Henryk Gál;
  • 1977, 3rd place , EM in Bursa , F, Fl, with victories over Kamil Özdag, Turkey, Henryk Gál, Ignat Dumitru, Romania, and Jean Schattemann, France, and defeats against Hartmut Reich and Alexander Iwanow;
  • 1977, 2nd place , World Championships in Lausanne , F, Fl, with victories over Randy Miller, USA , Kim Ui Kon, North Korea , Ghadir Nakodchi, Iran, Henryk Gál, Nermedin Selimow and Hartmut Reich and one defeat against Yuji Takada;
  • 1978, 1st place , tournament in Freiburg im Breisgau , F, Fl, ahead of Fritz Niebler and Heinz Thiel, GDR;
  • 1978, 3rd place , EM in Sofia , F, Fl, with victories over Lájós Szabo , Hungary, Mihal Kapolka, Czechoslovakia, and Hartmut Reich and defeats against Telman Paschajew and Nermedin Selimow;
  • 1978, 8th place , World Cup in Mexico City , F, F, with victories over Kim Jon-Kyu, South Korea , and Kamil Özdag, Turkey, and defeats against Anatoli Beloglasow, USSR, and Yuji Takada;
  • 1980, 3rd place , EM in Prievidza , F, Fl, with victories over Josef Schwendtner, Czechoslovakia, Fritz Niebler and Lájós Szabo and defeats against Yarugi Schugajew , USSR, and Nermedin Selimow;
  • 1980, silver medal , OS in Moscow , F, Fl, with victories over Petre Ciarnău , Romania, Luis Ocana, Cuba , Kumar Ashok, India , Lájós Szabo and Nermedin Selimow and a defeat against Anatoli Beloglasow;
  • 1981, 1st place , tournament in Freiburg, F, Fl, in front of Hartmut Reich, Arschak Sanojan , USSR, Ray Takahashi and Lájós Szabo;
  • 1981, 5th place , EM in Łódź , F, Fl, with victories over Efremow Koce, Yugoslavia , Yarugi Schugajew and Erwin Mühlemann, Switzerland, and defeats against Valentin Jordanow , Bulgaria, and Hartmut Reich;
  • 1984, 7th place , European Championships in Jönköping , F, Fl, after defeats against Maurice Bourdin and Valentin Jordanow;
  • 1988, 11th place , OS in Seoul , F, Fl, with wins against G. Lameru, Nigeria , and S. Sapatere, Indonesia , and losses against Aslan Seyhanlı, Maurice Bourdin and Wladimir Togusow, USSR

swell

  • 1) Div. Issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1971 to 1975 and "Der Ringer" from 1976 to 1995,
  • 2) Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA, 1976
  • 3) Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

Profile of Władysław Stecyk at the Institute for Applied Training Science

personal data
SURNAME Stecyk, Wladyslaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Radowo Male