Stanisław Krzesiński

Stanisław Blazej Krzesiński ( born February 3, 1950 in Białobrzegi, Masovian Voivodeship ) is a former Polish wrestler.

Career

Stanisław Krzesiński began as a teenager in 1965 in Radom with the rings. By 1968, he started for a wrestler Club in Radom and then joined the top Polish club GKS Katowice. He concentrated on the Greco-Roman wrestling and was trained by Michał Kosno Jan Adamaszek and Janus Tracewski. In 1971 he was Polish champion in the welterweight division for the first time. This title he won in 1973, 1974 and 1976.

In 1971 he gave his debut at an international championship and came up at the World Championships in Sofia welterweight with victories over Abdelhamid Abdeljelil from Tunisia, Sirri Acar from Turkey, Gary Neist from the United States and Eero Tapio from Finland and defeats Victor Igumenow from the Soviet Union and Boris Butrakow from Bulgaria to a good 5th place.

In 1972 he started in the Olympic Games in Munich and came welterweight to a point victory over the Japanese Jichiiro Date, wrestled against Werner Schröter drawn from the Federal Republic of Germany. Against Sweden in January Karlsson he was defeated and had thus reached six points of failure that forced him to exit. He finished in 11th place in the overall standings.

In 1973 Stanisław Krzesiński at the European Championships in Helsinki again a good 5th place. He defeated Adrian Florin Popa here from Romania, Ferenc Kocsis from Hungary, Vojislav Tabacki from Yugoslavia and Pentti Salo from Finland. Defeat it was only by Klaus -Peter Goepfert from the GDR. This defeat threw him but just before reaching the medal places out of the race. At the World Championships the same year in Tehran, he came only to a victory over Hashem Ghanbari from Iran and a draw against Young Kung - shik from South Korea and thus finished 10th.

In the next two years he reached the 6th place in the World Cup 1974 in Katowice at the European Championships 1974 in Madrid welterweight the 7th Place and in the European Championship 1975 in Ludwigshafen only the 11th place in the welterweight division. Two of these championships, he lost it again against Klaus -Peter Goepfert, who became his nemesis.

In 1976 Stanisław Krzesiński in Montreal for the second time in the Olympic Games in part. He came there, but only to a victory over the Cubans Idalberto Barkam and lost against Mikko Huhtala from Finland and Klaus -Peter Goepfert and came on the 11th Place.

The best result in an international championship then he scored at the European Championships in 1977 in Bursa. In welterweight, he won over Mihály Toma from Hungary, Giorgios Kostandopoulos from Greece, Karoly Kasap from Yugoslavia and Ion Ciobotaru from Romania. These four Seige not enough after defeats against Ivan Shopov from Bulgaria and Klaus -Peter Goepfert but at a medal win. He finished only 4th place ungrateful.

In his further career, he still reached then the following rankings: 10th place at the World Championships in Gothenburg, where he was subject, inter alia, also against the young German Karl -Heinz Helbing from Mainz, 8th place at the European Championships in Oslo, 6th place at the World Championships in Mexico City and 10th place at the World Championship in San Diego.

Then Stanisław Krzesiński ended his wrestler 's career. He studied at the Sport University AWF Katowice and was in the course of his coaching career coach of many top Polish wrestlers like Bogdan Daras, Andrzej Głąb, Andrzej Malina, Piotr Stepien, Roman Wroclaw, Ryszard Wolny, Wlodzimierz Zawadski and Andrzej Wronski, several of which Olympic, World - and European champions were.

In 1984, he accomplished a true feat in the European Championship in Jonkoping. He was there as a Polish trainer with it, and prevailed against an obviously mentally deranged 35 -year-old man at gunpoint suddenly jumped onto the mat and athletes and spectators at risk.

International success

Polish Championships

Stanisław Krzesiński won in 1971, 1973, 1974 and 1976, the Polish championship in Greco-Roman wrestling in the welterweight division.

Swell

• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
• Journals Athletics and The Ringer,
• Website " www.pkol.pl "