Dávid Losonczi
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Born | (2000-07-01) 1 July 2000 (age 24) Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 87 kg (192 lb; 13.7 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Amateur wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight class | 87 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Greco-Roman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dávid Losonczi (born 1 July 2000)[1] is a Hungarian Greco-Roman wrestler. He won the gold medal in the 87 kg event at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.[2]
Wrestling career
Losonczi competed in the 2021 World Wrestling Championships for athletes under 23 years of age. He won the silver medal in the men's Greco-Roman 87 kg event after losing to Aleksandr Komarov in the finals.[3]
He represented Hungary at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships, again competing in the 87 kg class. He reached the semi-final stage, in which he lost to Zurab Datunashvili,[4] and subsequently won the bronze match against Alex Bjurberg Kessidis.[5][6]
He won the silver medal at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, losing 8-7 to his Turkish rival Ali Cengiz in the men's Greco-Roman style 87 kilo final match. On 15 November 2023, the United World Wrestling recognized that a serious refereeing mistake had been committed which changed the outcome of this bout. Therefore, the UWW declared both wrestlers as the winners of the contest and award a gold medal to Dávid Losonczi.[7] Dávid Losonczi defeated Kyrgyz Azat Salidinov 8-0 with a technical superiority in the second round, Azerbaijan's Islam Abbasov 8-0 with a technical superiority in the third round, and in the quarter-finals he defeated Belarusian Kiril Maskevic 6-1, who participated as an independent individual athlete, to reach the semi-finals. In the semi-final, he defeated Semen Novikov of Bulgaria with 10-0 technical superiority and reached the final.[8]
He represented Hungary at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.[9] He lost his bronze medal match in the 87 kg event at the Olympics.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Wrestling Results Book" (PDF). 2024 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
- ^ "David LOSONCZI". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ "U23 World Championships, Greco-Roman, U23, 87 kg" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ Lloyd, Owen (10 September 2022). "Host athletes shine at World Wrestling Championships in Serbia". Inside the Games. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
- ^ "World Championships Results: Weight Category (Results GR 87)". World Wrestling Championships. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
- ^ "2022 World Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. p. 147. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
- ^ "Losonczi awarded share of 87kg world title". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
- ^ "87kg Bracket". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
- ^ "SULEYMANOV Sanan". Olympics.com.
External links
- David Losonczi at the International Wrestling Database
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Severin Ahlqvist (DEN)
- 1905:
Albert Hein (GER)
- 1907:
Harald Christensen (DEN)
- 1908:
Bob Diry (AUT)
- 1909:
Alois Toduschek (AUT)
- 1910:
Fritz Altroggen (GER)
- 1911:
Emil Väre (FIN)
- 1913:
Georg Baumann (RUS)
- 1920:
Viktor Fischer (AUT)
- 1921:
Taavi Tamminen (FIN)
- 1922:
Carl Westergren (SWE)
- 1950:
Axel Grönberg (SWE)
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Givi Kartozia (URS)
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Givi Kartozia (URS)
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Givi Kartozia (URS)
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Vasily Zenin (URS)
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Tevfik Kış (TUR)
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Tevfik Kış (TUR)
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Rimantas Bagdonas (URS)
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Valentin Olenik (URS)
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László Sillai (HUN)
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Petar Krumov (BUL)
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Anatoly Nazarenko (URS)
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Csaba Hegedűs (HUN)
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Leonid Liberman (URS)
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Anatoly Nazarenko (URS)
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Anatoly Nazarenko (URS)
- 1977:
Vladimir Cheboksarov (URS)
- 1978:
Ion Draica (ROU)
- 1979:
Gennady Korban (URS)
- 1981:
Gennady Korban (URS)
- 1982:
Taymuraz Apkhazava (URS)
- 1983:
Taymuraz Apkhazava (URS)
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Bogdan Daras (POL)
- 1986:
Tibor Komáromi (HUN)
Bogdan Daras (POL)
- 1987:
Tibor Komáromi (HUN)
- 1989:
Tibor Komáromi (HUN)
- 1990:
Péter Farkas (HUN)
- 1991:
Péter Farkas (HUN)
- 1993:
Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)
- 1994:
Thomas Zander (GER)
- 1995:
Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)
- 1997:
Sergey Tsvir (RUS)
- 1998:
Aleksandr Menshchikov (RUS)
- 1999:
Luis Enrique Méndez (CUB)
- 2001:
Mukhran Vakhtangadze (GEO)
- 2002:
Ara Abrahamian (SWE)
- 2003:
Gocha Tsitsiashvili (ISR)
- 2005:
Alim Selimau (BLR)
- 2006:
Mohamed Abdelfatah (EGY)
- 2007:
Aleksey Mishin (RUS)
- 2009:
Nazmi Avluca (TUR)
- 2010:
Hristo Marinov (BUL)
- 2011:
Alim Selimau (BLR)
- 2013:
Taleb Nematpour (IRI)
- 2014:
Mélonin Noumonvi (FRA)
- 2015:
Zhan Beleniuk (UKR)
- 2017:
Metehan Başar (TUR)
- 2018:
Metehan Başar (TUR)
- 2019:
Zhan Beleniuk (UKR)
- 2021:
Zurabi Datunashvili (SRB)
- 2022:
Zurabi Datunashvili (SRB)
- 2023:
Ali Cengiz (TUR)
Dávid Losonczi (HUN)
- 1904: 75 kg
- 1905: 80 kg
- 1907: 85 kg
- 1908–1909: 75 kg
- 1910: 70 kg
- 1911: 73 kg
- 1913–1922: 75 kg
- 1950–1961: 79 kg
- 1962–1967: 87 kg
- 1969–1995: 82 kg
- 1997–2001: 85 kg
- 2002–2013: 84 kg
- 2014–2017: 85 kg
- 2018–present: 87 kg