Jozef LohyÅˆa

Jozef Lohyňa ( born April 13, 1963 in Zlaté Moravce, Slovakia) is a Czechoslovakian wrestler who competed for Slovakia as of 1994. He was world champion in 1990 and won a bronze medal in 1988 at the Olympics, each in free style at middleweight.

Career

Jozef Lohyna began as a teenager with rings, focusing on the free style. He began his career at Banik Prievidza, later he also started for Dunajplavba Bratislava. His first coach was his father Lubomir Lohyna, but later he was still working along with several other coaches. In 1982 he was first Czechoslovak champion and in 1983 began his international career Ringer, which lasted 15 years. He is very well known in the German Ringer circles, because for years he struggled for German clubs in the German Bundesliga and with the AC Bavaria Goldbach won the German team championship twice. After his playing days he works as a coach and is also a businessman in Bratislava.

His international career began in the Ringer's European Championships 1983 in Budapest, where he finished fourth in the middleweight division. Overall, he then started until 1998 still with a further 21 international championships, winning ten medals.

The greatest success in his career, he won at the Wrestling World Championships in 1990, when he became world champion at middleweight before Royce Alger from the United States, whom he defeated in the final with 3:1 points, was in Tokyo. A year later, in 1991, he came close to Varna to repeat this success. He fought there until the final ahead of where he stood against Kevin Jackson from the United States in the final. After regulation time it stood 0-0 and in the extension of Jackson managed a small score that made him the winner on points 1-0. Jozef Lohyna thus became Vice World Champion. A bronze medal at the World Championships, he won yet at the Wrestling World Championships 1986 in Budapest, where he defeated in the battle for this medal Reiner Trik of the Federal Republic of Germany with 10:3 points.

At Olympic Games Jozef Lohyna launched a total of three times, bearing in mind that in Los Angeles he could not go to the start in 1984, as Czechoslovakia, true boycotted the provisions from Moscow, these games. The greatest success at these Olympic games he scored in 1988 when he won a bronze medal in Seoul. Towards this medal he won over the Swiss Jollien, then lost to Han Myung -woo of South Korea almost 7:8 with points, defeated Chris Rinke continue from Canada, Suchbat Dunsagiin, Mongolia, Ito, Japan and in the fight for the bronze medal Alexander Tambowzew from the Soviet Union, who was disqualified in this fight after 7:54 minutes fighting time because of passivity than six seconds before the end of the fight.

Jozef Lohyna also brought to light the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona a very good performance, even if he just missed a medal with a fifth place. He won there over Alcide Legrand, France and Nicolae Ghita from Romania, then lost to Elmadi Dzhabrailov from the Commonwealth of Independent States with nearly 7:8 points, defeated then Rahmat Sukra from Bulgaria, lost to Hans Gstöttner from the German team clear ( 1: 5) on points and won with a superior 10-0 victory over Sebahattin Öztürk from Turkey fifth place.

With a fourth place finish at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he already started for Slovakia, he missed heavyweight a medal even scarcer than in 1992. In Atlanta, he defeated Tatsuo Kawai, Japan, Gantogtoh Bayanmunch, Mongolia and Kim Ik- hee, South Korea, then lost to Macharbek Chadarzew, Russia pretty clear on points ( 1:7 ), defeated Victor Kodei, Nigeria and lost the battle for the Olympic bronze medal against Luka Eldari Kurtanidse from Georgia on points ( 0:5 ).

In European Championships Jozef Lohyna won a total of five medals. Quite close to the title he was with the Ringer's European Championships in 1989 in Ankara. He stood there in the middleweight division in the final battle Necmi Gencalp from Turkey over. Two wrestlers who do not fit together in their fight design. So it happened that both wrestlers were disqualified after the end of the fight, which ended 0-0 for passivity and both were placed on the second place. A European title was not awarded this year.

Bronzemdedaillen at European Championships won Jozef Lohyna in 1986 in Piraeus, where he defeated, among others, Reiner Trik 8-1 points, in 1987 in Bulgaria Veliko Tyrnowo, in Rome in 1994 and 1998 in Bratislava, where he was beaten by the outstanding Buwaisar Saitijew from Russia and the bronze medal by a narrow 3-2 point victory over Ali Özen from Turkey secured.

In 1983 Jozef Lohyna in Anaheim / USA also vice-world champion in the junior ( espoir ), although he had lost there in his pool against Reiner Trik.

International success

Notes

All competitions in free style
OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =
Middleweight until 1996-82 kg 1997-2001 kg and 85 kg, light heavyweight, and 1996 up to 90 kg body weight

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Journal The Ringer
Website " Foeldeak Wrestling Database "

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