Ferenc Seres
Ferenc Seres ( born November 3, 1945 in Ujkecske, Tiszakecske, Bács -Kiskun ) is a former Hungarian wrestler. He won a bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in the paper weight at the Olympic Games in 1980.
Career
Ferenc Seres, who belonged to the sports club Haladas Szondy Sportegyesület (SE ), it owed the introduction of the weight class of the weight of the paper by the International Wrestling Federation ( FILA ) in 1969, he at the age of just 25 years, but still made it into the Hungarian and little later even make it into the international top class the wrestler of his weight class. By 1968, the army personnel ranking flyweight, scored there, however, no significant results. At a size of 1.53 meters, he had no particular problems, create the weight limit for the paper weight, the body weight was 48 kg, while his whole career.
The first success in the paper weight was Ferenc Seres recorded in 1970, when he was Hungarian champion in this weight class in free style. In 1971 he became the first Hungarian champion in Greco -Roman style and used from then on, only that style.
In 1971 he started for the first time at an international championship, the World Cup in Sofia. He finished it with wins over Jaroszek from Poland and Matsuda of Japan, a draw against Stefan Angelov from Bulgaria and a defeat against Günter Maas from the Federal Republic of Germany a good 6th place.
In the following years he started regularly until 1976 at the World and European Championships, winning the World Championship in 1973 in Tehran, at the European Championship 1975 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and at the European Championships 1976 in Leningrad one bronze medal. Get him here in these championships, among others Victories over Constantin Alexandru from Romania, Raimo Hirvonen from Finland, Dietmar Hinz from the GDR and Stefan Angelov from Bulgaria.
At the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 Ferenc Seres came after a victory over Bernd Drechsel from the GDR and defeats against Gheorghe Berceanu from Romania and Stefan Angelov only on the 9th Place. Even worse, he cut off at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, where he lost to Alexei Shumakov from the USSR and against Michael Farina from the United States and therefore only took the 13th place.
After the Olympic Games, in 1976 he ended his international career Ringer, but struggled at the national level even further. 1979 Ferenc Seres made a comeback attempt on the international wrestling mat, which succeeded even though he was already 34 years old. The best results at international championships, which he achieved in 1979, was a 4th place at the World Championships this year in San Diego, where he and with wins over Alfredo Olvera from Mexico and Ju Jin Park from South Korea and defeats by Alexandru Constantin Alexei Shumakov, USSR only narrowly missed a medal and winning the Olympic bronze medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. He won there about Roman Kierpacz from Poland, Alfredo Alvera and Reiji Haaparanta from Finland and lost to Saksylik Uschkempirow from the USSR and Constantin Alexandru.
Ferenc Seres continued his international career in 1981 and still yet reached here at the European Championships 1981 in Gothenburg and at the World Championships 1981 in Oslo each a 6th place.
The last Hungarian Champion title won Ferenc Seres in 1985 at the age of 40 years.
International success
Hungarian Championships
Ferenc Seres won in 1970, the Hungarian championship in free style and 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1979 and 1985 in the Greco-Roman style, always in the paper weight.
Note: all matches in Greco -Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, paper weight, then to 48 kg body weight
Swell
- Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
- Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
- Journals Athletics and The Ringer,
- Website " www.webspawner.com "