WÅ‚odzimierz Zawadzki

Wlodzimierz Zawadzki ( born September 28, 1967 in Polany, Masovian Voivodeship ) is a former Polish wrestler. In 1996 he became Olympic champion in Greco-Roman featherweight.

Career

Wlodzimierz Zawadzki grew up in his native town, where he played football as a child. Only at the age of 13, he began with the rings. He came to in the Sport Club MZKS Orzel Wierzbica where Marian Osinksi his coach was. After high school he joined the Army and moved to the Sports Club Legia Warsaw CWKS. Throughout his long career he had several coaches, one of which Ksawery Biederman, Bolesław Dubicki and Stanisław Krzesiński that were most important. He concentrated on the Greco-Roman wrestling and wrestled as an adult at a size of 1.67 meters always Featherweight, the weight class up to 62, 63 and 60 kg body weight. From 1998, he wrestled for many years in the German Bundesliga. The VfK Schiffer city and the first Luckenwalder SC, where he, so up to his 39th year of life was active until 2006, were his clubs. Since ending his active career, he acts in Poland Ringertainer.

First, the career of Włodzimierz Zawadzki was to behave. Although he was once a Polish junior champion, but needed up to the age of 23 until he was accepted into the Polish national team wrestler. This he owed a violation of the Polish champion featherweight those years Mieczysław Tracz, in its place in 1990 he was employed at the Stanisław Pytlasiński tournament in Warsaw and took there Featherweight the 2nd place. A year later, in 1991, he went at the European Championships in Aschaffenburg at the start and won was immediately awarded the title of European Champion. In the final battle, he defeated the Germans while Mario Büttner. At the 1991 World Championships in Varna he was not so successful. He finished there the 8th Place.

1992 Wlodzimierz Zawadzki qualified for a place in the Olympic Games in Barcelona. He won there first about Shigeki Nishiguchi from Japan and Hu Guohong from China, but lost in his third fight against the world champion Sergei Martynov 1991 from Russia on points. With another victory over the Swiss Hugo Dietsche he fought his way to fight the Olympic bronze medal the right against Juan Luis Maren Delis from Cuba. But he lost that fight and therefore had to make do with the thankless fourth place.

In 1993, he came at the World Championships in Stockholm on the 6th Place. In 1994 he won at the World Championships in Tampere behind Sergei Martynov and the Bulgarians Ivan Radev a bronze medal. Very successful was he in 1995. Initially, he won the European Championship in Besancon for the second time European champion featherweight title. He defeated it with Ivan Radev, Usama Aziz, Sweden, Igor Petrenko, Belarus, Mehmet Akif Pirim, Turkey and Sergei Martynov five world-class athletes. At the World Championships in Prague, he defeated among others Artur Alexanian from Germany and Mehmet Akif Pirim again, but lost the final Sergei Martynov just after points and thus became vice - world champion.

At the 1996 European Championships in Budapest Wlodzimierz Zawadzki lost in the semifinal against Grigori Kamuschenko from the Ukraine and he also lost the battle for the bronze medal against EM Mchitar Manukjan from Armenia. He got away with it again on the thankless fourth place. The 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta then saw a well -prepared and self-confidence only as sparkling Wlodzimierz Zawadzki. He dominated all of his opponents clear and won with victories over Igor Petrenko, Usama Aziz, Koba Guliaschwili, Georgia, Grigori Kamuschenko and Juan Luis Maren Delis in superior style the Olympic gold medal.

Also in the following years Włodzimierz Zawadzki was very successful on the international wrestling mat. In 1999 he was in Sofia for the third time European champion and defeated it in the final Akaki Chachua from Georgia, after he had already beaten Şeref Eroğlu from Turkey in the semifinals. In the 1999 World Cup in Athens, he came at featherweight only to 9th place and had to qualify for participation in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney only. In three tournaments in Faenza, Clermont- Ferrand and Tashkent he succeeded in this as well. But at the Games in Sydney even he could do nothing more, because he met on Warteres Samurgaschew from Russia and Şeref Eroğlu, against which he lost, and therefore only came to 19th place.

In 2002, he was then in Moscow again vice-world champion at featherweight. After six wins, inter alia, about Djamel Ainaoui, France, Akaki Chachua and Roberto Monzon of Cuba, he met in the finals on arms Nasarjan, a starting Armenians in Bulgaria, where he was beaten on points. At 37, he then started in Athens in 2004 for the fourth time in the Olympic Games. He had there but the much younger Jung Ji -hyun of South Korea and Vitaly Rakhimov beaten from Azerbaijan, finishing in 16th place.

International success

Notes

  • All competitions in Greco-Roman wrestling
  • OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =
  • Featherweight until 1996-62 kg from 1997 to 2001 and since 2002, 63 kg up to 60 kg body weight; Lightweight, since 2002-66 kg body weight

Swell

  • Journal The Ringer
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig
  • Website of the Polish Association of Ringer
Weight class (boxing) 1991 World Wrestling Championships Wrestling at the 1992 Summer Olympics 1993 World Wrestling Championships 1994 World Wrestling Championships Besançon 1995 World Wrestling Championships Mkhitar Manukyan Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics 1999 World Wrestling Championships Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics Roberto Monzón Wrestling at the 2004 Summer Olympics Vitaliy Rahimov Israel 1997 World Wrestling Championships Colorado Springs, Colorado 1998 World Wrestling Championships Gävle 2001 World Wrestling Championships 2002 World Wrestling Championships 2003 World Wrestling Championships Créteil Portugal Giovanni Gozzi Mehmet Oktav Yakiv Punkin Roman Rurua Georgi Markov (wrestler) Omid Norouzi List of Olympic medalists in Greco-Roman wrestling
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