Jarmo Övermark

Jarmo Övermark ( born May 26, 1955 in Lappajärvi ) is a former Finnish wrestler.

Career

Jarmo Övermark began with his brothers Kari, Hannu and Matti as a teenager at the wrestlers Club Lappajärven Veikot with the rings. He was active in two styles, Greco-Roman. and free style, which he at international championships, for which he qualified in 1976, the Greek and Roman. Style preferred. Of the four brothers Övermark Jarmo was the army officer was, over the years the most successful. From 1977 until 1990, he won no less than sixteen times the Finnish championship.

In 1976 the international Ringer career by Jarmo Övermark began with a start at the Olympic Games in Montreal. In the free style, he finished doing welterweight a remarkable 7th place. The next start at an international championship was at the European Championships in 1978 in Oslo. He started there as early as the Greco-Roman. Style and reached at middleweight with a victory over the Austrians Franz Pitschmann the 9th Place.

At the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980, where he again Graeco-Roman. Was the style in the middleweight division at the start, he shall not win was. Because of the relatively weak participation in this tournament, he came anyway to 8th place. Also notable was the victory of Jarmo Övermark in the championships of the European Union in the light heavyweight before so good wrestlers like Gulldén Christer from Sweden and Uwe Sachs from Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1982 Jarmo Övermark reached at the international championships then steadily better rankings. So he finished in 1982, both at the European Championships in Varna, as well as at the World Championships in Katowice the 6th place in the middleweight division.

At the World Championship 1983 in Kiev then succeeded him in the middleweight even the leap onto the podium, where he defeated in the battle for the bronze medal Ion Draica from Romania. Also in the 1984 European Championship in Jonkoping won Jarmo Övermark middleweight bronze medal and in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles he missed 5th place middleweight barely a medal.

In 1985 and 1986 he again then get good rankings in the World or European Championships, a medal he won but not more.

Jarmo Övermark was at the Finnish Championships until 1990 at the start. He was still strong enough in 1990 Finnish heavyweight champion, in the meantime he had grown to be.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greek and Roman. Style, F = free style, We = welterweight, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, S = Heavy weight, then to 74 kg 82 kg, 90 kg and 100 kg body weight)

Finnish Championships

Swell

• Journal The wrestler, numbers: 5/ 1978, pages 7, 9 /1978, page 6, 5/1980, page 8, 8/ 1980, pp. 6/7, 05.06.1982, pages 6/6, 9/1982, pp. 9/10, 10/ 1983, pages 5/6, 5/ 1984, pp. 8/9, 9/ 1984, pages 10/11, 5/ 1985, page 5, 9/ 1985, page 6
• Website of the Institute for Applied Training Science of the University of Leipzig
• Website of the sports organization TUL with the results of the Finnish Championships

• Olympian (Finland )
• Ringer (Finland )
• Born in 1955
• Man