Milan Nenadić
Milan Nenadić ( born August 12, 1943 in Drenorcu at Petrinje ) is a former Yugoslav wrestler. He was winner of the bronze medal at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich in Greco-Roman wrestling in the middleweight division.
Career
Milan Nenadić began as a teenager at the sports club RK Radnicki Petrinje with the rings. He was one of the many wrestlers from Vojvodina, which at that time represented the majority of the wrestlers in the Yugoslav National Season. Nenadić focused on the Greco-Roman. Style and had the mid-1960s the Yugoslav class achieved in the Greco- Roman style. His first Yugoslav championship title he won in 1967 in the welterweight division, the five more were to follow. His start in international championships graduated Nenadić but already at the World Championships in 1965 in Tampere, Finland. There he came in the welterweight division with two wins and a draw equal to an excellent 5th place.
The following year he won at the European Championships in Essen the 8th Place and in the World Championships in Toledo ( Ohio) again a good 5th place in the welterweight division, where he failed after two wins and a draw only on the outstanding multiple Soviet world champion Viktor Igumenow.
His first big success came Nenadić at the 1968 European Championship in Vasteras. In welterweight, he won four fights and became vice European champion. At the Olympic Games the same year in Mexico City, he surprisingly lost in his fourth fight against Poland Adam Ostrowski and therefore only reached the 7th Place.
After a weight class reclassification by the International Wrestling Federation FILA Nenadić launched in 1969 at middleweight. In this new class he had in the back in March that took place in Argentina's Mar del Plata World Cup to an outstanding start, because he won the bronze medal there. At the European Championships in 1969 in Modena, a large part of the strong wrestlers from the Eastern Bloc countries did not participate, because the Italian government had prohibited the raising of the DDR flag. However, Yugoslavia started and Nenadić was in superior style European champions.
It was this success because of the occupation somewhat weaker no accident, then he proved in 1970, when he again European middleweight champion was at the European Championships in Berlin (East), this time with all the stars. In the 1970 World Cup in Edmonton in Canada, he won the bronze medal in the middleweight division.
In 1972 succeeded Nenadić at the Olympic Games in Munich, also winning a Olympic medal. It was the bronze. Against the then dominant in this weight class world class wrestler Anatoly Nazarenko from the Soviet Union and Csaba Hegedus from Hungary however, he had no chance to win.
In the years 1973 and 1974 Nenadić started then only at the World Championships because he in Momir Petković a tough opponent had grown up in Yugoslavia, who also claimed starting places. 1973 in Tehran Nenadić but was again in superb form and was runner-up and 1974 he finished an excellent 4th place in Katowice and just narrowly missed another medal.
1975 Milan Nenadić withdrew from the international competition scene.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, We = welterweight, middleweight Mi =, then to 78 kg or 82 kg body weight)
Yugoslav Championships
Milan Nenadić 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973 and 1975 Yugoslav champion in Greco-Roman. Style in the welter - and middleweight.