István Majoros
István Majoros (born 11 July 1974 in Budapest) is a Hungarian wrestler. It was 2004 Olympic champion in Greco-Roman Bantamweight.
Career
István Majoros began in 1985 with Sport Club Szeged BK with the rings. Later he moved to the sports clubs Kecskemeti Torna Egylet or Budapest VSC. His most important coach in his career were Tibor Zoltan Kovacs and Tihanics. He concentrated on the Greco-Roman wrestling and wrestled at a size of 1.65 meters in the bantamweight and late in his career at featherweight.
As a junior wrestler István Majoros had made great progress. He won at his first participation in a World Youth Championship in the age group Cadets ( under 16 years ) in 1990 in Szombathely at first the world title in the weight class up to 43 kg body weight. In this championship, he wrestled exceptionally well in free style and finished in this style in the same weight class the 6th Place. At the Junior World Cup 1991 aged Juniors ( up to age 18 ) in Barcelona, he finished second in the weight class up to 50 kg body weight behind Vitaly Cheban, USSR 2nd place. In 1992 he came at the Junior World Championship ( Juniors) in Cali / Colombia in the weight class up to 54 kg body weight, Seref Eroglu won in from Turkey, on the 4th Place.
In 1995 István Majoros was first used by the Hungarian Wrestling Federation at an international championship in the seniors. He competed at the World Championships this year in Prague bantamweight. He left there but early and finished only 23th Place. He was first in 1996 Hungarian champion in the senior bantamweight. By 2005, he won another six Hungarian championship bantamweight or featherweight.
In the next few years he started then regularly at the World or European Championships, but could be placed in front of the field until 1999, none of these championships. He provided some good and interesting fights at these championships. So he lost the European Championship 1997 in Kouvola against the Germans Jan Ulbrich in the 1st round on points ( 2:9 ). At the World Championships in 1997 in Wroclaw, he lost to eventual champion Yuri Melnichenko from Kazakhstan after a good fight on points 0:4. At the European Championships 1998 in Minsk, he defeated the defending champion Karen Mnazakanjan from Armenia and the strong French Djamel Ainaoui, but lost to Olympic champion arms Nasarjan, Bulgaria and against Igor Petrenko from Belarus. In the 1999 World Cup in Athens, where he finished 7th in the bantamweight and achieved the best result so far in the participation in international championships, he came among others to a point win over Germany's former world champion Rifat Yildiz.
At the 2000 European Championships in Moscow he then scored the first big win. He was there in the bantamweight new European champion and defeated it in the semifinals Rifat Yildiz (3:2) and in the final arms Nasarjan (3:1) respectively on points. At the Olympic Games in Sydney this year he could not connect to this good result. He lost there against Agbolag Ashkani from Iran and against Koba Guliaschwili from Georgia, was eliminated without victory and landed on the 18th Place.
In 2001 he competed at the World Championships in Patras and won there over Irakli Chochua from Georgia and Alfred Ter - Mkrtchyan from Germany, but lost to poor Nasarjan and thus came only to 13th place. After this World Cup István Majoros went to France for economic reasons. He was there but did not take root, and therefore returned to Hungary in 2003. He took in 2003 and again at the World Championships in Creteil part. There, he lost his first fight against Petr Svehla from the Czech Republic and came despite his following victories over Ibragim Achmed from Qatar and Tanjo Tenew from Bulgaria only to 12th place.
2004 István Majoros won by a 3rd place at Qlympia Qualifier in Novi Sad behind Brandon Paulson from the United States and Ercan Yildiz from Turkey the subscriber authorization at the Olympic Games in Athens. In Athens, he surprised the second time after the 2000 European Championships, the entire Ringer world and has been with wins over Masatoshi Toyota from Japan, Jansef Ramirez from the Dominican Republic, Lazaro Rivas Scull from Cuba, Aleksei Wakulenko, Ukraine and Gaidar Mamedalijew Russian Olympic champion bantamweight.
In 2005, he rounded off this success through a 3rd place at the World Championships in Budapest. Here he succeeded in winning over other Rönningen, Norway, Lindsey Durlacher, USA, Rowschan Bairamov, Azerbaijan and in the fight for the bronze medal Anders Nyblom, Denmark. In the semifinals he was defeated there against Park Eun- chul, South Korea, just on points (1:2 rounds at 4-4 points ). In 2006, István Majoros not bring the weight limit for the bantamweight and therefore competed at the European Championships in Moscow and at the 2006 World Cup in Guangzhou featherweight. He took it places 5 and 15 in Guangzhou, he denied it the last fight of his career against the German Heinz Marnette, whom he defeated on points.
On 31 December 2006 he fought in Osaka in a so-called mixed- martial-arts fight K-1 against the Japanese Norifumi Yamamoto and lost by TKO in the first round. It should be his only fight in this sport.
Then he tried to find his living in the restaurant business.
International success
Hungarian Championships
István Majoros won the Hungarian championship in Greco-Roman style between 1996 and 1997 in the bantamweight, featherweight in 1998, 1999 and 2001 bantamweight and featherweight in 2003 and 2005.
Notes
- All competitions in the Greco-Roman style ( except Junior World Championships 1990)
- OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =
- Bantamweight until 1996-57 kg from 1997 to 2001 bis 58 kg, since 2002 up to 55 kg body weight; Featherweight, since 2002 up to 60 kg body weight
Swell
- Journal The Ringer
- Website of the Institute for Applied Training Science of the University of Leipzig
- Website www.webspawner.com