Lajos Virág

Lajos Virag (* 27 June 1977 in Eger, Heves, Hungary ) is a former Hungarian wrestler. In 2005 he was vice-champion in Greco-Roman style in the light heavyweight division.

Career

Lajos Virag began at the age of eight in 1985 in his hometown with the rings. He was especially a member of the sports club Vasas SC Eger. He focused on the Greco-Roman wrestling and was trained in his career mainly by Tibor Komaromi and Jeno Bodi. Over the years he has developed into a powerful athlete who always started in the light heavyweight division at a size of 1.86 meters. Lajos Virag is also well known in German circles wrestler, because he started several years for the RKG Freiburg 2000 and the SV Johannis Nürnberg in the German Bundesliga.

In 1995 he took the first time in an international championship wrestler, the European Junior Championship ( Juniors) in Witten, in part. He came there, but in the weight class up to 81 kg only to 12th place. In 2000, he was employed in Tashkent at an Olympic qualifying tournament at middleweight. With a 5th place but he did not managed to qualify for the Olympic Games in Sydney. As a student he started in 2000 at the University World Championships in Tokyo, where he finished 5th in the middleweight division and in 2002 also at the World University Championships in Edmonton, where he light heavyweight behind Roman Meduna from Slovakia the second occupied space.

2002 Lajos Virag was also the first time Hungarian champion in the light heavyweight division. At the European Championships in 2002 in Seinäjoki / Finland he met in his first fight on the Russian title contenders, the multiple world champion and Olympic champion Gogi Koguaschwili, against whom he lost. With a win in his next fight on Robert Petrossian of Armenia he could, according to the then peculiar regulations, only fight the 9th Place. In 2003 he was re- Hungarian champion, but could win only means places at the international championships this year. In the 2003 European Championship in Belgrade, he triumphed over Richard Karelson from Estonia and then lost to Mirko Englich from Germany and arrived on the 10th Place and in the 2003 World Cup in Creteil he triumphed over Toomas Proovel from Estonia and Ernesto Pena from Cuba. However, after a defeat in the next fight against Alexei Tscheglakow from Uzbekistan, he left and came to 9th place.

He finished 9th overall at the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens. He came there to a victory over the Americans Garrett Lowney, but then lost to Ernesto Pena and retired. At the 2005 European Championships in Varna Lajos Virag lost like his first fight against Dimitri Timchenko from Ukraine and therefore only came to 17th place. All the better then he cut off at the 2005 World Championships in Budapest. He won there over Sedmark Mitja, Slovenia, Shota Narmanow, Belarus, Justin Ruiz, U.S. and Margulan Assenbekow, Kazakhstan and was thus in the final the multiple world champion and Olympic champion Hamza Yerlikaya from Turkey against, against whom he lost. He thus became Vice World Champion. He was a victory in the final over Ivan Nemeth 2005 Hungarian champion again.

In 2006 he was again at the World Championship, which was held in Guangzhou, there. He arrived there in the light heavyweight division to a victory over Nguyen Van Duc from Vietnam and lost to Jimmy Lidberg of Sweden, which einbracht him the 8th Place. In 2008 it succeeded Lajos Virag to qualify through a 2nd place in the tournament in Rome - Ostia again for participating in the Olympic Games. In Beijing he lost his first fight against Adam Wheeler from the United States very nearly 1:2 with rounds at 3-3 points. Since Wheeler did not reach the final, he was eliminated and only came on the 17th Place. After that he played no international championships more.

International success

Notes

• All competitions in the Greco-Roman style
• OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championships, European Championships EM =
• Middleweight weight class up to 2001 kg and 85 kg, light heavyweight, since 2002-96 kg body weight

Swell

• Journal The Ringer
• Website " Foeldeak Wrestling Database "
• Website of the Hungarian wrestler Association