Jozef Herda
Joseph Herda (also Jozef Herda; * April 21, 1910 in Trnava; † 4 October 1985 in Bratislava) was a Czechoslovakian wrestler.
Career
Joseph Herda began in Prague with the rings. In 1930, he joined the police and started from this date to the police sports club SFK " Straze " Prague. Determined, he fought in the Czechoslovak top class in the Greco - Roman style. He placed himself at the Czechoslovak championships several times in front of the field.
His debut at international championships he gave in 1934 at the European Championships in Rome, where he took a good 6th place. On the way back from these Championships, the Czech national team in Munich struggled against a Bavarian selection. Joseph Herda subject it to Wolfgang Ehrl from Munich to points. In splendid form he presented himself at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. With four wins and a narrow 1:2 point defeat against Finnish Lauri Koskela favorites, he won the silver medal.
In other international championships he was not at the start. In 1942, Joseph Herda went to Slovakia and lived since then in Bratislava. He worked there as a wrestler coach after the Second World War.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, European Championship EM =, GR = Greek and Roman. Style, Le = Lightweight, We = welterweight, then to 68 kg or 73 kg body weight)