Ed Banach

Edward Joseph "Ed" Banach ( born February 6, 1960 in Newton, New Jersey ) is a former American professional wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1984 in free style at light heavyweight.

Career

At the age of two years, Ed Banach and his family moved to Port Jervis, New York. There he attended together with his twin brother Lou high school. Under the impact of the Olympic victories of Dan Gable and the brothers Peterson at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, both decided together with a third brother, Steve, to begin the rings. They did this at the Port Jervis High School and the Port Jervis Varsity Wrestling team. Trained they were at the beginning of her career of Phil Chase and Mark Fowler. As usual at the high schools they struggled only in free style.

In 1977, Ed Banach celebrated his biggest success as a high school wrestler with winning the title of New York State. From 1979, he attended the University of Iowa. He grew to become the coach Dan Gable in the Hawkeye Wrestling Club rings driven further and launched in 1980 with the so-called NCAA Championships, the U.S. Championships students. Within the U.S. wrestling championship this plays a significant importance as the most and the best American wrestlers come from the students warehouse.

In 1980 he won the championship at the middleweight title against Dave Allen and Colin Kilrain. Next year, he was successful, but in the light heavyweight division. In 1982 he had to leave at the NCAA Championships Mark Schultz precedence. But in 1983 he won his third NCAA heavyweight championship title against Mike Mann and William Scherr.

Unlike his twin brother Lou Banach Ed started in the years 1983 and 1984, even with some major international championships and tournaments. It was in 1983 at the World Championships in Kiev at light heavyweight at the start and was there on the 7th Place. In 1984, he lost the final of the World Cup in the Toledo Olympic champion from 1980 Sanasar Oganessian from the Soviet Union, but finished behind the 2nd place before Shukri Akhmedov from Bulgaria.

In 1984 he started, excellently prepared by Dan Gable, at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in the light heavyweight division. He won there over Herbert Lin, Austria, Ismail Temiz, Turkey, Clark Davis, Canada, Abdul Majeed, Pakistan, and in the final battle against Akira Ohta of Japan, he and 15:3 techn. Points outclassed. He won the Olympic gold medal in superior style.

Ed and Lou Banach are so together with the brothers Anatoly and Sergei Beloglasow, both in Moscow Olympic champion in 1980 in wrestling, the only pair of twins who each won a gold medal at the same Olympics.

After the 1984 Olympics ended Ed Banach, just like his brother Lou, his international career wrestler, although he was only 24 years old. He was for some time as an assistant coach at the University of Iowa and now worked in the administration of the sports department of this university. For his contributions to the sport wrestler he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1993.

International success

National success

Note: all matches in free style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championships, NCAA Championships = US- American. Students Championship, Middleweight, to 82 kg, light heavyweight, heavyweight and up to 90 kg, up to 100 kg body weight

Swell

  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig
  • Journal The Ringer
  • Website " www.wrestlingmuseum.com "
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