Ferenc Kiss (wrestler)
Ferenc Kiss ( born January 5, 1942 in Nick, Vas County ) is a former Hungarian wrestler and bronze medalist at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich in Greco- Roman style in the heavyweight division.
Career
Ferenc Kiss began in 1954 in Budapest with the rings. The club with which he started was " all- Mávag " Budapest. Ferenc specialized in the Greco- Roman style. In 1965 he was Hungarian Champion in the light heavyweight for the first time. A year earlier he had given at the Olympic Games in Tokyo with a good 6th place in the light heavyweight debut at international championships.
At the World Cup 1965 in Tampere Ferenc showed great progress, because he remained unbeaten in five fights and was behind the Soviets Valeri Anisimov Vice World Champion.
At the World Cup 1966 in Toledo / USA Ferenc missed the 4th place in the light heavyweight division just a medal. A defeat against Nicolae Martinescu from Romania, with whom he should deliver many hot duels in the next few years, prevented that he could intervene in the medal fight.
At the European Championships 1967 in Minsk Ferenc then scored the first title. With six victories, he was confident European champions. Among the defeated him wrestlers were among the world-class athletes Nicolae Martinescu, Vasily Merkulov from the Soviet Union and Per Svensson from Sweden. At the World Championships the same year in Bucharest Ferenc succumbed to the new Soviet Star Nikolai Yakovenko and just missed out on a medal.
1968 succeeded Ferenc at the European Championships in Västerås again winning the title. More disappointing for him therefore came at the Olympic games of that year in Mexico City. He defeated his old rival Nicolae Martinescu and, surprisingly, against Juergen blade from Leipzig and only came to 8th place in the light heavyweight division.
Due to a reclassification of the weight classes by the International Wrestling Federation ( FILA ) Ferenc Kiss launched in 1969 in the heavyweight division. 1969, however, he could not participate in any international championships since the Hungarian Association for the European Championship in Modena sent no wrestler, because Italy had banned the flying of the GDR flag and the socialist states therefore boycotted the event and Hungary to the World Cup in Argentina's Mar del Plata cost reasons posted any wrestler.
The year 1970 was for Ferenc then again very successful. First, he was in spring in Berlin without defeat, but with three undecided battles, Vice European Champion, where he once again could not beat in a draw verlaufenen fight Jürgen blade and then he also finished in the autumn in Edmonton at the World Championships 2nd place. Also at this event, he remained undefeated. However prevented three indecisive battles against Stefan Petrov from Bulgaria, Per Svensson and Nicolae Martinescu his victory.
After a somewhat weaker Year 1971 Ferenc then succeeded in his third appearance at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 but still the income of an Olympic medal. After three victories Kiss were doing disqualified against Lorenz Hecher from Germany both wrestlers because of passivity and charged with 4 faulty points in the fight Fernec. This led to the resignation of both wrestlers, but that was enough to win the bronze medal for Ferenc. For Ferenc this disqualification was especially hard because of the defeated him already Nicolae Martinescu was still Olympic champion.
After the World Cup 1973 in Tehran, at the Ferenc again took a good 4th place, he retired from active competition rings. He completed a coach training and was first in his club " Full - Mávag " and then when Budapesti VSC coach before he coaches at the Hungarian national team wrestler in the Greco -Roman style in 1990.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, GR = Greco-Roman style, Hs = light heavyweight, S = Heavy weight, then to 97 kg and 100 kg body weight )
Hungarian Championships
Ferenc Kiss in 1965 and 1966 Hungarian champion in the light heavyweight and 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972 in the heavyweight division
Swell
- Various issues of the journal Athletics from 1964 to 1973
- Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976