Csaba Hegedűs
Csaba Hegedus [ tʃɒbɒ hɛɡɛdy ː ʃ ] ( born September 6, 1948 in Sarvar ) is a former Hungarian wrestler.
Career
Csaba Hegedus began in 1956 with the rings. He comes from a sporting family home and business in addition to the first rings also athletics, fencing and basketball. In 1967 he was first Hungarian Junior Champion in freestyle wrestling and joined the sports club Vasas Budapest. He was trained, among others, József Füzessy and Ferdinand Müller.
In international competitions Csaba Hegedus first appeared at the World Championships in 1971 in Sofia on the wrestling mat. He had now been converted to the Greco- Roman style. In Sofia he immediately won in supreme style the world title at middleweight. He recorded this eight early victories in the presence of the complete assembled the world's elite, including the defending champion Anatoly Nazarenko from the Soviet Union. Hegedus surprised his opponent with sophisticated technology, excellent explosiveness and endurance. He was elected the best wrestler of the entire World Cup.
In convincing style was Csaba Hegedus 1972 Munich Olympic champions, although some of his opponents had better set to him, so that his five victories that were necessary to Olympic victory, after four opponents were subject only on points against Hegedus. In his toughest opponent Anatoly Nazarenko, he sure hit on points, he met the same in the 1st round.
In the spring of 1973, Hegedus had a serious car accident, which he survived with serious injuries. The recovery took almost two years, and he was only in 1975 again take part in competitions. However, he lost in the World Championships 1975 in Minsk against Anatoly Nazarenko and also against Adam Ostrowski from Poland and finished only fourth place.
In the Olympic year 1976, he started promising, because he was in Leningrad, despite a narrow point loss to Ivan Kolev of Bulgaria European champions. At the Olympic Games in Montreal, however, Hegedus was disappointed. Weakened by the " make weight " for the middle weight he lost his two fights against Dan Chandler of the U.S. and against Miroslav Janota from Czechoslovakia on points and was eliminated after the second round.
1977 moved Hegedus therefore in the light heavyweight and had at the European Championships in Bursa in this weight class to an excellent start. He won there serenely in a European title. At the World Championships the same year in Gothenburg, he was defeated by Stojan Nikolov of Bulgaria and Frank Andersson from Sweden, who he had defeated at the European Championships in the spring, and retired without a medal from.
After this World Cup Csaba Hegedus resigned from active wrestling sport. He graduated from law school and received a doctorate in law. From 1979 he was head coach of the Hungarian national team of the wrestlers in Greco- Roman style. The 10 years in which he held this office, were probably the most successful in the history of Hungarian wrestler Association. Names such as Ferenc Kocsis, Norbert Növényi, Lajos Rácz, István Tóth István Kovács and testify.
1989 Hegedus was Vice President and a short time later President of the Hungarian Association of Ringer. In international Wrestling Federation ( FILA ) he is Bureau member for many years. For many years he was also a member of the Hungarian Olympic Committee.
For his contributions to the sport wrestler he was taken in September 2005 in the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, GR = Greco-Roman style, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, then to 82 kg or 90 kg body weight)
Hungarian Championships
Csaba Hegedus was Hungarian Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling in the middleweight division in the years 1971, 1972 and 1976 and in the light heavyweight division in 1978; in free style he was in the 1971 Hungarian champion in the middleweight division