Ferenc Kocsis
Ferenc Kocsis [ fɛrɛnts kotʃiʃ ] ( born July 8, 1953 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian wrestler.
Career
He grew up in his native town and began at the age of ten years, with the rings. In his first club Kinizsi Husos he learned from Andor Mango the first chords and came in the youth sector also achieved some initial results. In 1983, he became the first Hungarian championship in the senior welterweight in the Greco-Roman style, the style that he wrestled exclusively. Throughout his career, in which he also wrestled for Honvéd Budapest and full - MAVAG Budapest, he still had some other coaches, to whom he owed much. These were Gyula Tóth, Károly Jurida, Ferenc Kiss, Ferdinand Müller and Csaba Hegedus.
His debut on the international wrestling mat was Kocsis at the European Championships in 1976 in Leningrad, where he finished 5th. For the 1976 Olympics, he was not nominated by the Hungarian Wrestling Federation. On his next start at an international championship, the World Cup 1977 in Gothenburg, he celebrated six wins and came but only to third place. A double defeat against Janko Shopov from Bulgaria, both wrestlers were disqualified here, probably cost him the title. Also in the 1978 World Cup ranking Kocsis very well, scoring five wins and only lost in the final against Aliyev Niftulajew from the USSR.
With the victory at the European Championships 1979 in Bucharest began Kocsis for a series of four title wins in a row. In 1979 he was World Champion in San Diego, 1980 Olympic champion in Moscow and 1981 European Champion in Gothenburg. The Olympic victory, the biggest success of his career, he won by a hanging by a thread hanging victory over Anatoly Bykov from the USSR. Shortly before the end of this struggle both wrestlers were charged with two warnings for passivity. The judges then spoke from the third warning for Bykov, and Kocsis was Olympic champion.
In 1983 Ferenc Kocsis won at home in Budapest also a fifth title, the European champions. At the European Championships in 1984 he was defeated by a wrestler who should play a dominant role in the welterweight class for many years, Mikhail Mamiaschwili from the USSR. Participation in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles remained Kocsis denied by the boycott these Games by the socialist states.
He joined in 1985 by wrestling sport back, worked as a club coach for wrestling in Hungary and took over in 1990 by Csaba Hegedus, the Office of the Hungarian national team coach for the Greco- Roman style. He was very successful in this position and led Péter Farkas, István Majoros and Jenő Bódi to great successes.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, GR = Greco-Roman style, We = welterweight, then to 74 kg body weight)
Hungarian Championships
Ferenc Kocsis in 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1981 Hungarian champion in Greco-Roman wrestling in the welterweight division.
Private
Kocsis is since 1985 married to the table tennis player Gabriella Szabó.
Swell
- Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
- Various issues of the journals Athletics and The wrestler from the years 1975 to 1985