Dan Karabin
Dan Karabín ( born February 18, 1955 in Nitra ) is a former Czechoslovak wrestler and winner of the bronze medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow in free style at welterweight.
Career
Dan Karabín comes from Nitra in Slovakia, where he began as a teenager with the rings. After his talent was recognized, he was delegated to the Police Sports Club Rudá Hvězda Prague, where he became one of the best Czechoslovak freestyle wrestler after the 2nd World War. Already in the junior age he belonged to the world's elite, such as his victory at the Junior European Championships 1974 in Haparanda welterweight and his 2nd place at the Junior World Championship 1975 in Haskovo, also welterweight prove.
Dan also managed the transition to seniors seamlessly, because at the European Championship 1975 in Ludwigshafen, he immediately took 2nd place. He was only the Soviet all-rounder Pawel Pinigin inferior and defeated in an intermediate round fight even the German freestyle artist Adolf Seger. Even more successful he was at the European Championships in 1976 in Leningrad, where he defeated the two German competitors Alexander Senn from the FRG and Fred Hempel from the GDR and despite losing to Marin Pârcălabu from Romania became European Champion. Bad luck Dan then at the Olympic Games the same year in Montreal, because after two victories, he injured himself in the third battle against the Yugoslavs Kiro Ristov and had to retire.
Little Dan successfully Karabín was then in the years 1977-1979, in which he succeeded no medal win. However, Dan was very prone to injury in those years and could use some tournaments or championships not finish due to injury.
In the Olympic year 1980, things went better again for Dan. First, he was now restored at the European Championships 1980 in Prievidza 4 winner, although he was forced to retire through injury after the fourth round and then he won at the Olympic Games in Moscow, the bronze medal, which he benefited from the fact that the high favorite Pawel Pinigin, against whom he had lost, failed to Valentin Rajtschew from Bulgaria.
In the years 1982 to 1984 Dan still achieved very good results in the World and European Championships and was 1982 in Edmonton even vice-champion. In those years he also crossed with the German national champion Martin Knosp few times the blades, but subject to that always.
In Los Angeles as he was unable to attend the 1984 Olympic Games because of the boycott of the Games by the Eastern bloc countries, he finished after the European Championships in 1984 his international career Ringer.
He has worked as a trainer in Slovakia today.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = free style, We = welterweight ), then to 74 kg body weight