Jožef Tertei
Josef Tertelj ( born May 5, 1960) is a former Yugoslav wrestler. He was winner of a bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics, vice-world champion in 1983 and European champion in 1986 in the Greco-Roman wrestling in the heavyweight division.
Career
The Hungarian minority belonging to Josef Tertelj ( József Törtei ) grew up in Senta in Vojvodina in the Yugoslav province, who came from a large part of the Yugoslav top wrestlers after the Second World War. He was already a junior at the best Yugoslav wrestlers in Greco -Roman style, the style, to which he devoted himself exclusively.
The first success on the international wrestling mat, he celebrated the age of 19 at the Balkan Championships 1979 in Yambol, where he finished in 3rd place in the light heavyweight behind the established wrestlers Ilie Matei from Romania and Bulgaria Atanas Komtschew. He occupied the same seat at the Balkan Championships of 1980 in Istanbul at heavyweight. In 1980, he came at the Junior World Championship in Bursa heavyweight even on the 6th Place.
After Refik Memišević, the best Yugoslav wrestler in the heavyweight division in 1981 moved to the Super - Heavyweight, Josef Tertelj came regularly from this year at the international championships for use. But in 1981 he had to pay dues for both at the European Championships in Gothenburg and at the World Championships in Oslo. In both events he managed only one win, one point win over Hans- Günter Klein from Germany.
He scored significantly better results already in 1982. He won this year with a third place at the European Championship in Varna behind Andrey Dimitrov from Bulgaria and Nikolai Inkow from the Soviet Union its first medal. Also, the 5th place at the World Championships in Katowice was an excellent result.
In 1983 he disappointed at first with a 6th place at the European Championships in Budapest his followers something, but he won at the World Championships the same year in Kiev a 2nd place behind Andrey Dimitrov and before the Soviet representative Viktor Awdyschew.
In 1984, he started only at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, which had been, in contrast to most other former socialist countries, not boycotted by Yugoslavia. The reward was winning the Olympic bronze medal behind Vasile Andrei from Romania and Greg Gibson from the U.S..
After a fifth place finish at the World Cup 1985 in Kolbotn / Norway in 1986 was succeeded in Athens, the first international title. He was in the heavyweight division before Thomas Horschel from the GDR and Istvan Illes from Hungary European champions. In the final battle he beat Thomas thereby Horschel 6-2 points. In the 1986 World Cup he was not at the start.
In 1987, he missed with a 4th place finish at the European Championships in Tampere and a 5th place at the World Championships in Clermont- Ferrand just a medal. In Tampere he lost thereby the decisive battle for a medal against Jörg Kotte from the GDR with 3:4 points.
The year 1988 was the last year of Josef Tertelj on the international wrestling mats. At the European Championships in Kolbotn he celebrated it with a 2nd place behind Anatoly Fedorenko from the USSR once again a great success. At the Olympic Games this year in Seoul, it was no longer quite a medal win with a good 5th place. There dominated the new stars Andrzej Wronski and Gerhard sky.
After these games Josef Tertelj ended his international career Ringer. He went to Germany and wrestled for many years at various clubs in the southwest of Germany in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, GR = Greek and Roman. Styles, Hs = light heavyweight, S = Heavy weight, then up to 90 kg or 100 kg body weight)
Swell
- Journal The wrestler, numbers 4/1981, page 8, 9/ 1981, p 6, 05/06/1982, page 6, 9/ 1982, 10, 9/ 1983, page 9, 10/ 1983, page 6, 9 / 1984, page 11, 9/ 1985, page 6, 5/ 1986, pp. 9, 6/ 1987, page 9, 9/ 1987, page 10, 7/ 1988, pages 5/6, 10/1988, page 12,
- Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
- Website " www.sports123.com "