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17. 10. 2014 | Košice, Klaipėda - LTU (October 17-19, 2014) The Košice delegation traveled last weekend to the Lithuanian city of Klaipėda for an international tournament in the cadet category. The boys went into the fights under the guidance of coach Mgr. Miroslav Jedlička, who evaluated the competition and the performance of our wrestlers positively: "I was very satisfied with the boys and their performance!". Our representatives fought until the last seconds, which paid off for them. Among the most successful were Jakub Sýkora and Ľuboš Kundrát, who brought home silver from the tournament. "Unfinished attacks and subsequent counter-attacks were my undoing," stated Jakub Sýkora after the final fight with the Polish representative. Ľubo was clearly defeated in the final by a Latvian who is third from this year's World Championships.

11. 10. 2014 | Brno (October 11, 2014) Our wrestlers were not absent from the annual Brno GP tournament this year either, although the delegation was small by our standards. The Košice club sent only 2 of its members to the fights, as several boys did not have their category at the tournament and some have health problems. Štefan Csorba in the 74 kg weight category and Jakub Sciranka in the 86 kg weight category entered the fights. 92 competitors from Poland, Slovakia, and domestic clubs participated in the tournament.

11. 10. 2014 | Košice, Kolárovo (October 11, 2014) On this day, the Slovak Younger Pupils' Championships in Greco-Roman style and also the Slovak Women's Divisions Championships took place in southern Slovakia. With only three girls in the delegation, all stood on the podium. Among the older pupils, Nina Kollárová won a silver medal in the 52 kg category, and two golds were taken home by Dominika Kollárová in the 56 kg cadet category and Andrea Šambronská-Hajduková in the 63 kg women's category. The pupils were also successful, even though our club focuses on freestyle wrestling. The boys won two titles: Patrik Tomlein in 73 kg and Teodor Bartko in the heavyweight category up to 85 kg. For Sebastián Rusňák and Filip Titka (40 kg), Viliam Baran (52 kg), and Matej Beneš and Viktor Váňa (73 kg), wrestling in the classic style did not bring success.

04. 10. 2014 | Košice, Rimavská Sobota (October 4, 2014) On the first Saturday of October, the second and final round of the Slovak Junior League took place in Rimavská Sobota, where we were leading ahead of Nitra after the first round. For the final round, our juniors traveled in the strongest possible lineup, now including Gabriel Tysz and Róbert Szatmári, who did not compete in the first round due to injuries. Our juniors managed to bring it to a victorious end, winning the title of Slovak Champion in the team category in 2014.

28. 09. 2014 | Košice, RUS, SVK, HUN (September 26-28, 2014) This weekend, the club sent our wrestlers, from preparatory, pupils, cadets (male/female) to juniors and seniors, to fight at three international tournaments. The most success came on the last day in the nearby Hungarian city of Hajdúnanás. From the international tournament, coach Miroslav Jedlička and his assistant Štefan Csorba brought home the silver cup in the overall team evaluation.

20. 09. 2014 | Nitra (September 20, 2014) At the XXXIII. edition of the J. Svitač Memorial, our wrestlers did well, bringing home 9 medals from the tournament, with 10 of them competing. Our club, under the leadership of Mgr. Miroslav Jedlička and his assistants Štefan Csorba and Bc. Jakub Scirankus, placed second in the overall club ranking, behind the home club. Competitors in the preparatory, pupil, cadet, and junior categories from 3 countries – the Czech Republic, Croatia, and Slovakia – participated in the tournament.

14. 09. 2014 | Košice, Tashkent (September 8-14, 2014) Uzbekistan welcomed the biggest stars of the wrestling world, champions of Europe, the world, Olympic champions, and honored masters of sports. 60 countries competed among the freestyle wrestlers at the World Championships. Slovakia also had its representation; in the 86 kg category, we were represented by Michael Bodnár, a senior for only two years, a product of our ZK Košice 1904. The draw gave him the Ukrainian TSOTADZE Dzhambuliv in the first round. In the first period, Michael was losing 0:4, and he was unable to assert himself in the second either, with the representative of Ukraine winning by technical superiority. The Ukrainian subsequently lost to the winner of the weight class, the Russian Sadulaev, and thus our representative's hopes of continuing in further fights ended. "There is still a lot to work on; among seniors, wrestling is something else entirely. I am always learning and experiences like this give me a great deal," Michae

16. 08. 2014 | Košice (August 16, 2014) - The Košice team, consisting of the Kollárová sisters, supplemented by pupils Matej Závacký and Samuel Mochnáč, cadets Róbert Szatmári and Ľuboš Kundrát, and a quartet of seniors Matej Deák, Jakub Sciranka, Michael Bodnár, and Jaroslav Baltovič, measured their strength against wrestlers from Ostrava Vítkovice and Hellas Brno. The 7:4 victory over a quality team from the neighboring Czech Republic was pleasing. Congratulations! This event was welcomed by the coaches of both clubs with great enthusiasm. Before the friendly match, the wrestlers participated in a training camp consisting of two-phase training sessions focused on technique. We hope there will be more such camps.

02. 08. 2014 | Košice, Dabrowa Gornicza (August 2-3, 2014) Annually, one of the last tournaments before the World Championships is the Waclaw Ziolkowski Memorial in Poland. This year, the tournament was hosted by the city of Dabrowa Gornicza near Katowice. Our representatives, under the leadership of the national team's head coach, Mgr. Peter Hirjak, also used it as a test before the upcoming World Championships. Two wrestlers from Košice also participated in the tournament – Jakub Sciranka in the 74kg weight class and Michael Bodnár in the 86kg weight class.

15. 07. 2014 | Humenné, Snina (July 15-20, 2014) Eastern Slovakia became the venue for the World Wrestling Championships. The charges of our club also fought for the title of cadet world champion, namely in the cadet women's category, Dominika Kollárová in the 52 kg weight category, who placed 17th/18 competitors, where in the first round she was no match for the representative of Italy, CarieriI Arianna. In the cadet freestyle category, we had representation in two weight categories. Jakub Sýkora in the 58 kg weight category, who placed a nice 13th/26 competitors. He passed the preliminary round against the Israeli representative Asayev Ramon, but in the next round, he was no match for the Mongolian representative Enkhtyua Temuulen, who did not pull him into further fights. The last representative of our club was Ľuboš Kundrát in the 76 kg weight category, who in the first round lost to Surender Singh of India and placed 22nd/26 competitors.

28. 06. 2014 | Košice, Dortmund (June 28, 2014) In Dortmund, Germany, the annual international senior freestyle tournament took place. From June 27-29, 2014, one Košice native, Jakub Sciranka, traveled with the Slovak national team in the 74 kg weight category. The young senior won a nice 3rd place/8 competitors at the tournament, where in the first round he defeated Crepaz (AUT) 3:2, in the semifinals he lost to Harth (GER) 0:10, and in the fight for the medal, after a tough battle, he defeated Anguiano (MEX) 13:11. CONGRATULATIONS!

06. 06. 2014 | Košice, Samokov (June 6-11, 2014) This year, the European Cadet Championships were held in the Bulgarian city of Samokov. The championships also served as a qualification for the upcoming Youth Olympic Games, which took place in Nanjing (China). Unfortunately, the criteria for qualifying for the YOG are very strict – only the finalists from selected weight classes in freestyle and Greco-Roman style advance.