10. 10. 2012
Košice, Klaipėda (October 10, 2012) - At the 14th edition of the Musu Viltys international tournament in Klaipėda, Lithuania, in strong competition from 174 cadets from eight European countries (Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Poland, Russia, Slovakia), the wrestlers of our Wrestling Club (ZK) Košice 1904 did not get lost. Jakub Sýkora and Gabriel Tysz fought their way to the final battles. Both succumbed to German opponents.
J. Sýkora competed in the 50 kg weight category against 18 competitors. First, he dealt with the Pole Chwiej (2:0 and 3:0), then with the German Laerz (2:0 and 8:3), and then, in three periods and with the last point, also with the Russian Prilipkin (2:1, 0:1 and 1:1), but in the final, the German Roll was beyond his strength, with whom he lost 0:6 and 2:5, winning the silver medal.
This also adorned G. Tysz in the heaviest weight category, up to 100 kg, where he competed with ten other boys. In the first two rounds, he escorted the home wrestlers - Šulcas and Šulavejus - off the mat after pinfall victories. In the semifinals, he even defeated the Russian Vasiljev by technical superiority (7:0 and 8:2). However, his final duel did not go well at all, and he lost to the German Bochm by pinfall.
Our cadets' coach, Miroslav Jedlička, said about the performances of both his charges: "Kubo Sýkora struggled on his way to the final, so he didn't have such a clear path, whereas Gabi Tysz got to the final without the slightest problem. As for the final matches, Kubo didn't catch the start of a takedown in the first period, which the German performed on the borderline of a foul, even with a foul, and in the second period, it was an even match, but he also fell for a trick in it. Gabi was unlucky, although I have to say that the German was heavier by about nine kilograms, but he was also better. Right at Gabi's first attack on the legs, his opponent choked him from above with a head and arm grip, and the match unexpectedly ended before the time limit."
Dominik Husár, a cadet from Stará Ľubovňa, also did well, finishing fifth in the 85 kg category out of ten starters. He first won against the Lithuanians Povilajtis (1:0, 2:0) and Rasiulis (3:0, 3:3 and 4:0), but then he was no match for the Estonian Kaarik or the Belarusian Pulmanovský, to whom he lost by pinfall.
Róbert Szatmári in the 58 kg category only competed in a single match in Klaipėda, as he lost, very closely (0:4, 1:0 and 0:1), to the Pole Kroliczak and ultimately finished in 9th place among 13 competitors. "Robo simply didn't handle his match and yes, it upset him and me, because the other Pole, whom Robo had already beaten in the past, subsequently got to the final," said the coach about R. Szatmári.
The remaining two Košice cadets - Roman Peťák and Marko Lukáč - were on the shorter end of the stick against their opponents. R. Peťák in the 69 kg category (25 starters) first lost to the Russian Kasajov (0:4 and 0:1), who, however, pulled him into the repechage, but there our wrestler was no match for the Lithuanian Navkas (0:3 and 1:5) and finished in 16th place. M. Lukáč, in a competition of 21 wrestlers in the 76 kg category, also had two matches - in the first, the Belarusian Chiromenkov was beyond his strength, with whom he lost by pinfall, and he forfeited the match against the Lithuanian Bizunovic with the score at 0:7. The referees then classified him in 14th place.
"The team's performance was quite successful overall, although some of the boys' performances did not satisfy me, as on our last trip to this tournament we - I don't know if at all - won one match," the coach recalled.
The Košice delegation, led by coach M. Jedlička, also included referee Daniel Berdis. On the way to the almost 1100-kilometer distant Lithuanian Klaipėda on the shore of the Baltic Sea, the Košice team stopped in Krasnik, Poland, where they had an evening training session with the boys from the LUKS Suples Krasnik club and continued to their destination in the morning. "We left on Thursday morning at 8 o'clock and were in Krasnik by half past one. We had a 'pre-competition' training session at 5 p.m., just like the Poles, with whom we traveled together the next day. Here I must say that I had originally planned a break at the Polish-Lithuanian border, but Mr. Karol Platek (head coach in Krasnik - author's note) offered me training, accommodation, and dinner, for which I didn't even have to pay," concluded coach M. Jedlička.
Well, our club has true friends in Krasnik, Poland.