Andrzej Wroński

Andrzej Wronski ( born October 8, 1965 in Kartuzy ) is a former Polish wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1988 in Greco-Roman wrestling in the heavyweight division.

Career

Andrzej Wronski began in 1976 at the age of eleven years, along with three brothers with the rings. The first club to which he belonged from 1976 to 1984, was GLKS " Morena " Żukowo. Then he joined the Polish army and moved to Legia Warsaw. Throughout his long and very successful career he had many coaches who all had a share in his successes. These were Henryk Borecki, Boleslaw Dubicki, Wieslaw Dziadura, Stanislaw Krzeminski and Ryszard Świerad. They made sure that Wronski mid-1980s reached the Polish top class in the Greco-Roman style and the hitherto best Polish heavyweight wrestler and novel Wroclaw novel Bierła that belonged to the world-class replaced. In 1987 he was first used at the World Championships, but came in Clermont- Ferrand not go beyond a 13th place. All the more surprising then came his victory at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. There he defeated in the final of the German master Gerhard sky through a lifter with Überstürzer. An action that won him two points and the sky could not catch up.

At the European Championships in 1989 in Oulu, he proved that his Olympic victory was no fluke, as he was also European champion. Not very well it ran for him at the World Championships in 1989 in Martigny / Switzerland. He lost in two preliminary round fights against Dusan Mazar from Czechoslovakia and Ilya Vasilyevich from Bulgaria. The fight for the 5th place he won against Ferenc Takacs from Hungary. World champion Gerhard heaven, but because of the early defeats Vronsky did not come to an Olympic rematch against this.

At the European Championships in 1990 in Poznan Wronski won a bronze medal. He won his first four fights in each case by disqualification of his opponent without having achieved even a single technical point. In the fifth fight he was then stopped by Maik Bull man, who played his last championship for the GDR here. At the World Championships the same year Wronski resigned after a defeat against the new Russian star Sergei Demjaschkewitsch out prematurely. Against the same athletes he also lost at the European Championships in 1991 in Aschaffenburg already in the 2nd round and was eliminated again without winning a medal. Similarly bad it was for him at the 1991 World Championships in Varna where he only finished 9th overall.

In the spring of 1992, he won in Copenhagen his second European title in the heavyweight division by defeating the Russians Ibragim Tschawtschalow. At the Olympic Games this year, he landed on the thankless fourth place after a defeat by the Americans Dennis Koslowski had to put the same in the 1st round.

Also at the European Championships 1993 in Istanbul he finished 4th, in which he was defeated again against Sergei Demiaschkewitsch. At the World Championships in Stockholm he won the bronze medal in the fall of 1993.

One of his most successful year was then 1994. Initially he was in Athens by a Final victory over the Greeks Triantafilidis European champion and in the autumn of the same year in Tampere also world champion.

In 1995, Wronski was only at the World Championships in Prague at the start. He arrived there in the 4th round of the Sweden Mikael Ljungberg and subject to that after a 5-0 leadership still with 5:7 points. After this bitter defeat, he was defeated, no longer fully motivated in the fight for the bronze medal against Georgi Saldadse from Ukraine.

In the Olympic year 1996, he first reached at the European Championships in Budapest 3rd place, after he had failed again to Mikael Ljungberg in a preliminary round fight. At the Olympic Games in Atlanta but he was then in top form and won his second gold medal after 1988. In the semifinals, he edged the 1992 Olympic champion Héctor Milián from Cuba and in the final Sergei Lischtwan from Belarus.

In subsequent years, Wronski won no other international titles more. But he was in some championships still in very good shape and was at the World Championships in 1997 and bronze medalist at the 1999 World Cup runner-up again. After he had only occupies the 13th place in Sydney at the Olympic Games in 2000, he resigned.

But in the year he started with 38 years a comeback in the super heavyweight. But he could no more place in the 2003 World Cup in front of the field and also failed to qualify for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Andrzej Wronski, who also wrestled several championship rounds in the German Bundesliga for the VfK Schiffer city, then came back for good. Lately he is to see how the Grand Prix of Germany 2006 in Leipzig, as judges on the mat.

Andrzej Wronski is an officer ( Chorąży sztabowy ) in the Polish army. For his contributions to the sport wrestler he was taken in September 2010 in the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame.

International success

(all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, OS = abolished Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European, Light Heavyweight, and 1996 up to 90 kg body weight, from 1997-97 kg body weight, heavy weight, up to 1996 up to 100 kg body weight, from 1997, Super Heavyweight, up to 130 kg body weight)

Polish Championships

Andrzej Wronski won three times from 1988 to 2000, the Polish Championship.

Swell

• Journal The Ringer
• Website of the Institute for Applied Training Science of the University of Leipzig