István Kovács (wrestler)

István Kovács ( * June 27, 1950 in Nádudvar, Hajdú -Bihar ) is a former Hungarian wrestler. He was world champion in 1979 in free style at middleweight.

Career

István Kovács began as a teenager with the rings and has been delegated by the first successes of the Hungarian top club Csepel SC. There he became one of the best freestyle wrestler Hungary, reaped many successes on the international wrestling mat. In Hungary, he was initially overshadowed by the veterans Géza Hollósi and Károly Bajkó, but from 1972 he dominated the event in the Hungarian freestyle wrestling in the middleweight division.

From this point, then he started regularly at international championships, always in the middleweight division, weight class, to 82 kg body weight ranged at that time. His start he was present at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. He came there, but only to a victory over the Canadians Taras hybrid and retired after losing to Tumur Artag from Mongolia and the Leipzig Horst Stottmeister early from. He, finished in 14th place.

His best finish in the years after 1972, he reached 4th place at the European Championships 1974 in Madrid. At the World Championships 1975 in Minsk he came on the 7th Place. He was subject to, inter alia, Adolf Seger from Freiburg, who won the title at this World Cup. In 1976, he came at the European Championships in Leningrad after a new defeat against Adolf Seger on the 5th Place. He took this year in Montreal in part for the second time in the Olympic Games and finished there after two wins and two defeats the 7th Place.

In 1977, István Kovács then won his first medal at an international championship. He finished at the World Championships in Lausanne middleweight behind Adolf Seger and Magomedchan Arazilow from the Soviet Union to 3rd place. Interestingly, he helped it with its completely surprising victory over Arakilow in the last battle of the middleweight competition Adolf Seger to the world title. For István Kovács this victory was meaningless, because it would be without this victory, finished third for Arakilow but that Adolf Seger had defeated, the defeat meant the loss of the World Cup title.

In 1978, István Kovács scraped with a 5th place at the European Championships in Sofia and a fourth place at the World Championship in Mexico City just missed out on a medal both times. At both events, he lost it, inter alia, again each of Adolf Seger.

For the most successful year of his career was István Kovács then the year 1979. He won at the European Championships in Budapest with five wins and one defeat against Soviet athlete Alexander Alexeyev, the EM- Silver Medal. For the first time he succeeded in doing a victory over Adolf Seger. At the World Cup 1979 in San Diego, he was still successful, because with victories over Ismail Abilow from Bulgaria, Magomedchan Arazilow, Michael buses from Poland and Zevegin Duvchin from Mongolia, he was, despite a defeat against the Olympic champion from 1972 John Peterson from the United States champion.

In 1980 he started only at the Olympic Games in Moscow. Get him there though five wins, but the decisive battles for the award of the medals he lost against Ismail Abilow and Magomedchan Arazilow. He won the bronze medal after all, still.

After a sixth place at the World Championship 1981 in Skopje, he ended his international career. But he struggled even more at the national level and rank than about thirty-five a few years of success for the AC Bavaria Goldbach in the German Bundesliga.

International success

Hungarian Championships

István Kovács, 1970, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1984 Hungarian Champion in free style at middleweight

Swell

• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
• Journals Athletics and The Ringer,
• Website " www.webspawner.com "