Dennis Koslowski
Dennis Koslowski Marvin ( born August 16, 1959 in Watertown, Codington County) is a former American professional wrestler.
Career
Dennis Koslowski is from South Dakota and began with his brother Duane at age seven with the rings. From 1980, he attended the University of Minnesota, Morris. His coach was there Craig Olsen. During his university years, he won the 1980 and 1982 NCAA Division III Championships in the heavyweight Collegiat and made so for the first time attracted attention. From 1983, he wrestled for, among others, the Minnesota Storm Wrestling Club and the Gophe Wrestling Club. From 1983 to 1992, he won a total of seven times the U.S. Championship. He wrestled exclusively in the Greco- Roman style. At international level, he stood from 1983 in many competitions on the mat. His coach in the U.S. Ringer's national team was Dan Chandler.
His first start in an international championship, he completed at the Pan American Games 1983 in Caracas, where he finished in second place in the heavyweight division. Nei the World Championships 1983 in Kiev, he was there at the start and took a 6th place.
In the United States Olympic qualification for the 1984 Olympic Games, he defeated Greg Gibson and could not participate in these games so. In 1985, he was, however, at the World Championships in Norway Kolbotn it again. He started in the super heavyweight and was there again on the 6th Place.
In 1987 he won at the Pan American Games again celebrate a great success at the World Championships in Budapest 2nd place and a bit later; he became vice world champion. In the final he was defeated by Soviet athletes Guram Guduschauri.
At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul Dennis lost the final of his group against the eventual Olympic champion Andrzej Wronski from Poland, but retained in the fight for third place against Ilia Georgiev from Bulgaria the upper hand. The Olympic bronze medal was the reward for it.
1989 and 1990 Dennis paused on the international wrestling mat to further his training as a chiropractor. 1991 but made a comeback on the wrestling mat and came at the World Championships in Varna in the heavyweight division on the 7th Place.
With this course he was not satisfied and increased its training schedule. The reward he got the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, where his wrestlers career culminated by winning the silver medal. He suggested this in his group the Olympic champion from 1988 Andrzej Wronski and lost the battle for the gold medal the Cubans Héctor Milián after extension with 1:2 points.
After the Olympic Games in 1992, he resigned from active wrestling sport. He worked as a coach at Lakeland College and practiced as a chiropractor. He was also assistant coach at the U.S. Ringer national team in Greco- Roman style., Who did also in a project that was initiated by him and which aimed to bring young people off the street into the sports halls and rings.
The results of international championships and some other tournaments that Dennis Koslowski participated are to be seen in the following section.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, GR = Greco-Roman style, S = Heavy weight, SS = Super Heavyweight, then to 100 kg and 100 kg body weight)
U.S. Championships
Dennis Koslowski won the U.S. championship in the heavyweight division in 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991 and 1992 and in the super heavyweight in 1985, always in the Greco- Roman style.
Swell
- Journal The wrestler, Nos. 10/83, 9 /84 9/95, 11 /86 9/87, 10/ 88 9/89, 10/ 91 and 9/92
- International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig