Ãrpád Ritter
Árpád Knight ( born June 12, 1975 in Budapest) is a Hungarian wrestler. He was vice-champion in 2005 and European champion in the middleweight division in 2002 and 2003 in the welterweight division, in each case in free style.
Career
Árpád Knight grew up in Budapest and began as a teenager in 1984 with the rings. He was a member of the Csepel SC and trained there by Istvan Gulyas. As a junior he still operated in two styles, Greco-Roman style and free style. As a senior, he took up only in free style. As an adult, he struggled for a long time at a size of 1.78 meters in the welterweight and moved only in 2005 in the middleweight division.
He was very successful as a junior and started with 15 years in 1990 for the first time at an international championship, the Junior World Championships in Szombathely. He wrestled there in the age group of the " Cadets ", which went up to the age of 16. He was equally successful, because with a 3rd place in the weight class up to 60 kg body weight, he won in the Greco -Roman style bronze medal. At the same championship he also started in free style but had to be satisfied with the thankless fourth place.
A year later, in 1991, he won at the Junior World Championship of Cadets in Alma (Canada) in Greco-Roman wrestling in the weight class up to 70 kg body weight for the world title and was to free style in the same weight class vice-champion.
In the next two junior age groups ( Juniors up to 18 years and espoir, to age 20 ) Árpád knight was not so successful. He won in these classes do not medals. His best results were a fourth place finish at the Junior World Championship Juniors in 1992 in Cali, Colombia, in the welterweight division and a 4th place finish at the Junior World Championship espoir 1995 in Tehran, where he finished 4th place in the welterweight division again. It won it in his weight class Buwaisar Saitijew from Russia before the South Koreans Moon Eui- jae, who later won many successes in the seniors.
His debut in the seniors gave Árpád Knights at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. He arrived there in the welterweight division with a win and two defeats on the 13th Place. His defeat against Magomed Salam Gadschiew from Azerbaijan was there with 2:3 techn. Points very close. Later in his career, he initially achieved different performance in the elderly. Weaker results at the international championships were good against. So he took, for example, at the World Championships in 1997 in Krasnoyarsk welterweight only 27th place, but came at the European Championships 1998 in Bratislava on an excellent 4th place. He even brought the feat to defeat in a preliminary round fight Adam Saitijew from Russia on points. Because of the peculiar regulations then in force, but he had to play in the battle for 3rd place again against Adam Saitijew and defeated it on points.
At the 2000 European Championships in Budapest Árpád Knights came back with two wins and one defeat against Adem Bereket from Turkey to 5th place. At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney he played two battles he lost both. Both against Gurami Michedlidse from Georgia and again against Adem Bereket he lost and came by it only to 18th place.
In 2001 he managed at the European Championships in Budapest with a 3rd place first medal win in the senior welterweight. An even better place refused him Buwaisar Saitijew from Russia, he lost to in the championship. At the World Championship 2001 in Sofia he could appreciate, when he narrowly missed a medal also because of a loss to Moon Eui- jae and "only" to 5th place came.
The breakthrough Árpád knight then at the 2002 European Championships in Baku. With five victories he became European champion in the welterweight division. On the way to this success, he also beat the German former World Champion Alexander Leipold narrow 3:2 technical points. A setback he suffered at the World Championships this year in Tehran, because after two lost battles against Murad Gaidarow from Belarus and Daniel Gonzalez Aguillera from Cuba, he landed on the 25th place.
2003 succeeded Árpád Knights to win again at the European Championships in Riga. He succeeded there also the revenge against Murad Gaidarow and fight for victory he achieved a renewed narrow victory over Alexander Leipold (3:2 techn. Dots). At the World Championship 2003 in New York, he lost to three victorious battles against Gennady Lalijew from Kazakhstan and finished 7th.
In 2004 he took part for the third time in the Olympic Games and the third time he cut it from disappointing. He lost in Athens against Buwaisar Saitijew and against Emanzios Bentinidis from Greece and therefore only came on the 16th Place.
At the 2005 European Championships in Varna Árpád Knight launched for the first time in the middleweight division, but lost in his second fight against David Bichinashvili from Germany and finished 7th. For the 2005 World Championships, which took place in his hometown of Budapest, he trained again from in the welterweight division. A measure that has paid off, because with four victories, he finally won a World Championship medal. It was the silver, because in the final battle he lost again against Buwaisar Saitijew, the dominant welterweight of those years.
In the last years of his international career, he won again bronze medal, which he won with a victory over Sergei Borchenko from Belarus at the European Championships in 2007 in Sofia.
Qualifying for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing no longer managed Árpád knight. However, he failed in the second qualifying tournament in Warsaw with a 3rd place in the middleweight extremely scarce. A second place would have been sufficient for the Olympic qualifiers. At the end of 2008, Árpád Knights then finished his international career Ringer.
Árpád knight has for many years also in Germany a term in the ring camp, he went to the mat already for the KSV Witten 07 and TuS Adelhausen. In the 2009/10 season, he raced for the SV Germania Weingarten.
International success
Note: OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = Freestyle, GR = Greco-Roman style, welterweight until 1996-74 kg from 1997 to 2001 bis 76 kg, since 2002-74 kg body weight, middleweight, since 2002-84 kg body weight
Swell
- Website of the Institute for Applied Training Science of the University of Leipzig
- Website of the American Association Ringer
- Journal The Ringer
- Website " www.guresdosyasi.com "