András Sike

András Sike ( born July 18, 1965 in Eger ) is a former Hungarian wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1988 in the Greco-Roman Bantamweight.

Career

András Sike grew up in Eger and began in 1977 as a teenager playing sports club Eger SE with the rings. He concentrated on the Greco- Roman style. After he had become Hungarian Youth Champion, he was delegated in 1982 top club Ferencvarosi Torna Club (FTC ) Budapest. There he could devote himself entirely to the rings. In 1983 he started for the first time at a major international championship, the Junior World Championship in Norway Kristiansund. The third place behind Izie Surtakow, USSR and Pencho Mladenov, Bulgaria, thereby succeeded bantamweight equal a medal win. In the junior age he started in 1964 and again at a European Junior Championship ( espoir ) in Frederikshavn, Denmark. He was Vice-European Champion behind Valerio Martirosjan from the USSR.

As an adult, András Sike wrestled with a size of 1.67 meters, with a few exceptions throughout his career bantamweight whose weight limit at the time was body weight at 57 kg.

In the years 1985, 1986 and 1987, he launched both at the European Championships. He reached there is no medal places but finished 1985 in Leipzig, and in 1986 in Athens with the 6th place and 1987 in Tampere with the 4th place good results. Oganes Arutjunjan and Timur Kalemulin from the Soviet Union, Keijo Pehkonen from Finland, Patrice Mourier from France and Haralambos Holidis from Greece installed him in these years even better placements. In Tampere András Sike won, among others also against the German champion Peter Behl on points.

At the European Championships in 1988 in Kolbotn, a suburb of Oslo, András Sike then won its first medal at the senior citizens. Behind Alexander Shestakov from the Soviet Union and Stojan Balow from Bulgaria he placed it in front of so good wrestlers like Rifat Yildiz from the Federal Republic of Germany, runners-up in 1987, Patrice Mourier, World Champion of 1987 and Haralambos Holidis on the 3rd place. Counter Rifat Yildiz him here succeeded a brief 2-1 points victory.

In the same year András Sike succeeded then even the biggest success in his career, for he was in Seoul Olympic champion bantamweight. He won there before Stojan Balow and Haralambos Holidis. On the way to Olympic victory he met, among others back to Rifat Yildiz and defeated this early because Yildiz was disqualified because of " passivity ".

In the following years András Sike won more medals at the World Championships in 1989 in Martigny / Switzerland, where he finished third at the European Championships in Prague in 1990, where he finished second behind Patrice Mourier and at the 1991 World Championships in Varna, where Rifat Yildiz won, while András Sike clearly defeated on points.

At the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 had András Sike of Rifat Yildiz even a shoulder defeat after 1 minute and 38 seconds to accept and finished there in the final result only the 10th Place.

A good result achieved András Sike then at the European Championships in 1993 in Istanbul, where he finished 5th, while only at the European Championships in 1994 in Athens, for the first time in the featherweight starting, only the 14th Place and in the European Championship in 1995 in Besancon finished in 17th place.

András Sike struggled in the years 1990 and 1991 for the KSV meadow valley in the German Bundesliga.

After the end of his career he was a coach at FTC Budapest. One of his students was there Zoltan Fodor, who won a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games. In 2001 András Sike was sentenced in connection with real estate transactions for fraud to one and a half years in prison and thus also lost his coaching job. Since his release from prison, he runs a restaurant in Budapest.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, GR = Greco-Roman style, Ba = bantamweight, featherweight = Fe, then to 57 kg or 62 kg body weight)

Hungarian Championships

András Sike was 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1992 and 1993 Hungarian champion bantamweight. He was also with FTC Budapest in 1982, 1985, 1987 and 1988 the Hungarian team champion.

Swell

• Journal The wrestler, numbers: 5/ 85 5/86 6 /87 5/88, 10/ 88 9/89, 5/90, 5/91, 10/91, 9/92 and 5/93,
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
• Website " sports.123.com "
• Website " www.webspawner.com "