Tibor Komáromi

Tibor Komáromi ( born August 14, 1964 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian wrestler.

Career

Tibor Komáromi began at the age of nine years in 1973 in Budapest with the rings. He trained very hard and achieved, equipped with large rings generic talent already as a teenager outstanding results. After a few detours, he landed at the top Hungarian Club " Ferencvaros " Budapest, where Attila Nádasi his coach was. At age 19 he won his first Hungarian championship in the seniors in the Greco- Roman style. On the international stage Ringer he first appeared in 1982 at a World Cup in Budapest, where he finished a good third in the welterweight division. In the next few years, he competed in several international championships, became world and European champion, an Olympic victory he did not succeed. His coaches were then László Vatai and János Szanyi.

He made at the Junior World Championships in 1983, where he won the silver medal, beaten by the Soviet exception Ringer Mikhail Mamiaschwili, with whom he should fight still some hard struggle in the next few years to start with. At the Junior European Championships 1984, he won his first title before Stafan Iwailow from Bulgaria.

For the first time at a senior European Championships he launched in 1984, but still had to pay dearly when he lost in the second round against Sweden Sören Claesson and had to retire.

However, in 1985 he won his first international championship medal at the senior citizens. In Leipzig he became vice European champion at middleweight.

1986 was a year for class Komáromi. In the spring he was European champion in Athens and in the fall of champion in Budapest. In Athens, the judges decided the fight against world champion Bogdan Daras from Poland, as both wrestlers already had two warnings, for him, which led to the disqualification of Daras. In Budapest, he fought in the finals again against Daras. This time, both wrestlers were disqualified, which meant that after the regulations had to be set to the 2nd place both wrestlers. A world title was not awarded. On the FILA Congress next year, but this decision was revised and explains both wrestlers to become world champion. A legal basis in the statute did not exist for it however.

In 1987 he was in Clermont- Ferrand again world champion at middleweight, a safe final victory over Roger Gössner from the FRG.

In 1988, he lost the European Championship final of the middle weight in the Norwegian Kolbotn and also in the final of the Olympic Games in Seoul each moved up to the welterweight from middleweight in the Soviet star athletes Mikhail Mamiaschwili on points and had each time with the 2nd place finish.

At the World Championships in 1989 in Martigny, he started once again in the middleweight division and won there already his third World Series title. For the first time he succeeded in doing a victory over Mamiaschwili.

From 1990 to 1992, he started at light heavyweight, because it the " make weight " for the middleweight increasingly caused problems. But in this weight class he could not achieve such great success as a middleweight. Three bronze medals at the European Championships in 1990, 1991 and 1992 were the yield. At the European Championship 1991, he edged the which is not disposed in good shape double world champion Maik Bull man from Frankfurt (Oder ) in the battle for the bronze medal on points.

At the World Cup 1991, he wrestled in the 3rd round again against Bull man. Both wrestlers were asked for passivity of the mat. While Komáromi therefore was eliminated, Bull man was able to stay in the competition and was even world champions.

In the next few tournaments to Komáromi could not place it in the front of the field, even though he abtrainierte back in the middleweight division. At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, ​​he finished only 11th place.

A conciliatory statements found his career in 1994 with a victory in a World Cup tournament in Kecskemet.

The results at the international championships, which denied Tibor Komáromi are read in the following section.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, GR = Greek -Roman style, We = welterweight, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, then until 74 kg, 82 kg and 90 kg body weight)

Hungarian Championships

Tibor was Komáromi 1983-1994 eleven times in a row Hungarian champion at middleweight or light heavyweight ( Greco-Roman. Style).