Jouko SalomÃ¤ki

Jouko Salomäki John ( born August 26, 1962 in Kauhajoki / Western Finland ) is a former Finnish wrestler and Olympic champion in 1984 in Greco-Roman. Style in the welterweight division.

Career

Jouko Salomäki grew up in his hometown Kauhajoki and began as a student in 1970 when Ringer Club Kauhajoen Karhu with the rings. He came from a family wrestler, and his brother Jari was several Finnish champion in Greco-Roman. Style at middleweight. Jouko Salomäki developed very quickly at an excellent wrestler in the Greco-Roman. Style and was in 1977 at the age of 15 years of Finnish champion in the seniors before such well-known wrestlers like Reijo Haaparanta and Taisto Halonen. In 1980, he joined the Club Ringer Nurmon Jymy. In the following years, he was always present at the Finnish Championships in the leading group. In 1979 he was Finnish junior champion in the class up to 65 kg body weight and 1981 to 1989, he won seven times in the senior Finnish welterweight championship, in which he was now grown. Only in 1988 interrupted Timo Niemi this series and referred Jouko Salomäki to 2nd place.

Also on the international wrestling mat was Jouko Salomäki who could devote himself as a police officer fully the rings, very successful. In 1982 he was in Leipzig European junior welterweight champion in the category " espoir ", these were the juniors up to the age of 20. After a 5th place at the European Championships in 1984 in Jönköping, he used at the Olympic Games the same year in Los Angeles the opportunity and was Olympic champion in the welterweight division. He defeated among others, thereby also the multiple world champion and hot favorite Stefan Rusu from Romania and the very strong Sweden Roger Tallroth.

In the next few years, he confirmed this success through excellent places in the world and European championships. He finished 3rd at the World Championships 1985 in Kolbotn / Norway and at the European Championships in 1986 in Athens and 1987 runner-up in the European domestic Tampere. In those years he usually failed because of the outstanding Soviet wrestler Mikhail Mamiaschwili, against which he could not win. When he was absent from the 1987 World Championships in Clermont- Ferrand, because he was changed in the middleweight division, Jouko Salomäki succeeded once again a very great triumph, for he was with five wins world champion. He won among others about the Soviet athletes Daulet Turlychanow and Mirko Jahn from the GDR.

Then Jouko Salomäki resigned from the International Sports Ringer so that he was no longer at the start of the Olympic Games 1988. As, however, in 1989, the European Championships held in Oulu, he attempted a comeback, but came welterweight only on the 6th Place.

As a veteran then made Jouko Salomäki still a talking point when he won the third place in the class finished at the World Championships in 2001 in his age group to 76 kg body weight and in 2003 in his age group even the world championship in the class up to 85 kg body weight gained.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greek and Roman. Styles, Fl = Flyweight, Ba = bantamweight, Le = Lightweight, We = Weltergew9cht, Mi = middleweight, then 52 kg, 57 kg, 68 kg, 74 kg and 82 kg body weight)

Finnish Championships

Swell

Journal The wrestler from the years 1981 to 2003, numbers 4/1981, page 7, 9/ 1983, page 9, 5/ 1984, pages 7/8, 9/ 1984, pages 4/5, 3/ 1985, pages 11 / 12, 5/ 1985, pages 4/5, 9/ 1985, page 6, 5/ 1986, pp. 8/9, 6/ 1987, pp. 8/9, 9/ 1987, pages 7 to 10, 5/ 1989, pages 10
Website of the Institute for Applied Training Science of the University of Leipzig
Website www.painiliitto.net with the results of the Finnish Championships

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Profile of Jouko Salomäki at the Institute for Applied Training Science

List of Olympic gold medalist in wrestling

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Olympian (Finland )
Olympic champion (wrestling )
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Ştefan Rusu Daulet Turlykhanov East Germany Italy Bulgaria Warsaw Andrzej Supron Karl-Heinz Helbing BRD (Germany) Martial Mischler France Budapest Anatoly Bykov (wrestler) List of Olympic medalists in Greco-Roman wrestling

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