30. 05. 2012
Košice (May 30, 2012) - At the end of May, the members of our Wrestling Club (ZK) Košice 1904 met at the Social Pavilion to review the past year with the club's management, discuss goals for the end of the current year, and evaluate and, to the delight of many, reward the best wrestlers in individual age categories.
From the annual report, we learned that last year, ten seniors and one senior woman, seven juniors, nine cadets, the same number of older pupils, 15 younger pupils, and 20 preparatory trainees trained and represented our club in competitions. The club also consists of 30 other members. In the evaluated year, we were the best wrestling club in Slovakia. This is proven by the results on domestic and foreign mats, which was also confirmed by the Slovak Wrestling Federation when it evaluated our ZK as the most successful in the overall ranking, in freestyle and Greco-Roman style, in 2011.
2011 WAS A SUCCESSFUL YEAR
In the year-long team competition, our seniors finished only in 3rd place, which was certainly a disappointment for us after the championship title in 2010, but we fought for the overall victory until the last round, moreover, exclusively with wrestlers from our own breeding ground, or purely Slovak ones, without reinforcements from Ukraine or Russia, which our competitors had to strengthen themselves with if they wanted to snatch the title from us from 2010. In the Slovak junior league, our juniors once again became champions of the SR. In competitions within the SR, we won 18 titles of champion of the SR, 18 silver medals, and 13 bronze medals. At the European Senior Championships, we were represented by Jakub Kačeňák, Slavomír Štofík, Dan Pálinkás, Marián Hutňan, and Andrea Šambronská. The most successful was D. Pálinkás, who finished 9th out of 21 competitors in Dortmund. At the World Championships in Istanbul, J. Kačeňák competed and won a very valuable 8th place out of 46 competitors. In the junior category, the Slovak and club colors were defended at the European Championships by Peter Pástor, Dávid Berdis, and Michael Bodnár, who also competed at the World Championships, where he placed an excellent 8th out of 27 participants. J. Kačeňák and M. Bodnár became the most successful wrestlers of the SR in their categories in 2011.
We were less satisfied in the area of preparing young wrestling adepts in the category of preparatory and school sports centers. We organized only two tournaments for the youngest, and we also had reserves in recruitment. The foreign participants of last year's three international tournaments - For the Cup of the Director of the Sports Gymnasium in Košice (cadets), Cassovia Cup (seniors), and the Mikuláš Athanasov Memorial (younger pupils) - highly rated our care for them and the quality of the tournaments.
Behind last year's results, one must see primarily the work of the coaches: Juraj Dancák, Miroslav Jedlička, Marek Sciranka, Matej Gardoš, and Marián Jaroš. And above all, the management of the club - its president Ján Tokár Jr. and the members of the committee Ján Tokár Sr. and Marcel Miček.
BUILDING ON LAST YEAR IN THIS YEAR
They all, and we believe all members of ZK Košice 1904, want to improve the training preparation in all age categories in 2012, so that others can evaluate us again next year as members of the best club in the SR. We have also set specific goals: at least one fifth place at the European Cadet and Junior Championships and at least one placement up to eighth place at the European Senior Championships. We want to continue preparing the best of the seniors for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
THE BEST OF THE BEST
Based on last year's results on domestic and foreign mats, the club management compiled a ranking of the best in individual age categories. In the preparatory category, it was Jakub Závacký, among the younger pupils Samuel Mochnáč, Gabriel Ficher, and Dušan Kmec, among the older pupils Jakub Sýkora, Róbert Szatmári, and Gabriel Tysz, among the cadets Peter Janica, Michal Pavlík, and Dávid Polačko, among the juniors Michael Bodnár, Dávid Berdis, and Slavomír Štofík, and among the seniors Jakub Kačeňák, Dan Pálinkás, and Marián Hutňan. In the overall ranking regardless of category, J. Kačeňák was the most successful, ahead of D. Pálinkás and M. Hutňan.