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01. 01. 2020 | They weren't at the London Olympics yet, but they have no intention of giving up on Rio de Janeiro. That's why Košice wrestling is betting on the young, who can confirm the legitimacy of their Olympic ambitions soon enough, cadets Matej Gazda and Gabriel Tysz at the World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan (August 21-27), and juniors Michael Bodnár and Dávid Berdis at the World Championships in Pattaya, Thailand (September 4-9).

01. 01. 2020 | The management of the 1904 Košice Wrestling Club is clearly betting on youth, on its own protégés, with the aim of raising wrestlers who are competitive at the international level. One can get an idea of how well this is succeeding at the turn of August and September, when the most capable individuals in the cadet and junior categories have the opportunity to show themselves at the World Championships.

01. 01. 2020 | They have three Slovak champions and the overall first place in the team evaluation; ZK Košice 1904 was the dominant team in the freestyle part of the Slovak Wrestling Championships in Trenčín. They defeated their biggest competitor, Dunajplavba Bratislava, by a significant margin of 24 points, and their eastern rival, Vihorlat Snina, in third place, had to settle for eight points.

01. 01. 2020 | It's called the Slovak Wrestling League, although it only has two rounds this season. The first was in mid-October in Bratislava, the second will take place this coming weekend in Snina. And it will be done, another champion will be written into the annals...

01. 01. 2020 | On the wrestling mats, everything remained the same after the second (final) round of the Slovak Team League in Snina. The order on the podium is the same as it was crystallized at the opening tournament in Bratislava - Dunajplavba Bratislava remained on the pedestal, the wrestlers of Vihorlat Snina stepped onto the silver step, and the freestyle wrestlers of ZK Košice 1904 had to settle for bronze.

01. 01. 2020 | Košice (December 11, 2012) - In pictures, that is, with photographs, we return once more to the tournament of the youngest age category in Košice, which took place at the beginning of the third decade of November this year. It was certainly a successful one, because the photographs, which would have almost started to gather dust in a desk drawer, testify to the fact that there are more and more children under the guidance of coaches Matej Gardoš, Miroslav Jedlička, and Marek Sciranka, and they felt good at the tournament. The activities and support for the youngest age category from the management of our Wrestling Club (ZK) Košice 1904, specifically the ZK president Ján Tokár Jr., are falling on fertile ground, and so we offer you the opportunity to enjoy the photographs from this tournament once again.

01. 01. 2020 | Wrestlers are in shock. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has removed one of the oldest sports under the five colored rings from the 2020 Olympic Games program. This is the official verdict of the IOC Executive Board from its meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. KOŠICE. The shock is also because modern pentathlon was considered most "at risk" of being removed from the current 26 Olympic sports. Wrestlers relied mainly on tradition, as their sport has been an Olympic classic since 1896... And it cannot be said that there was little interest in the events on the Olympic mats in London last year. Read more: https://kosice.korzar.sme.sk/c/6700766/kosicanov-sokovalo-vyradenie-zapasenia-z-programu-olympijskych-hier.html#ixzz5OtAkf8OR

01. 01. 2020 | Although this year's junior world or European wrestling championships are still relatively far over the horizon (the European championship will be in July in Skopje, Macedonia, and the world championship in August in Sofia), "national" medals have already been distributed in Slovakia. So far, only to the freestyle wrestlers, who had their domestic championship last weekend in Šamorín.

01. 01. 2020 | Honor to Švajlen, the Baton to Ľuberda. The words of the SOV chairman are a tribute to the members of KOK, who achieved a lot in very modest conditions. Even at yesterday's annual evaluation, the club chairman Anton Švajlen could, as practically every year, praise the activities of the association of volunteer officials, who mostly held the baton of the most successful among all Slovak clubs.

01. 01. 2020 | The freestyle wrestlers of the Košice 1904 Wrestling Club had a very good start to this year's league season, maintaining the closest contact with the other two candidates for the championship title, Vihorlat Snina and Dunajplavba Bratislava, after the first round (April 6 on home mats). KOŠICE. The charges of coach Juraj Dancák also traveled to the second tournament, to the hot ground in Snina, in excellent spirits. However, after the duel with the hosts, in which the Košice team was confident after their home victory in the first round, everything was different. "It was already strange that the presidium of the Slovak Wrestling Federation met in Snina, the day before the tournament, for its off-site meeting. I didn't have a good feeling about it..." says the Košice coach.

01. 01. 2020 | Slovak senior wrestling has its season finale ahead; on Saturday, October 26, three weeks after the end of the Slovak Team League, freestyle and classic wrestlers will fight for medals at the national championship on the mats of ZK Košice 1904. KOŠICE. The unconventional autumn date of the championship, chosen by the Slovak Wrestling Federation, does not quite sit well with the coach of the home team ZK Košice 1904, Juraj Dancák. Simply because it lacks logic. "Until now, the Slovak championship, from which the nomination for the national team was also derived, has always been in the spring. Now the championship is at the end of the year, after all the national team events, and according to our information, the next domestic championship in 2014 should be in the spring again. Only after that will the national team for the new season be formed, so logically from the point of view of the national team, this year's championship has no meaning. I see no reason why the Slovak championshi

01. 01. 2020 | Košice, Tashkent (September 7, 2014) The International Wrestling Federation FILA officially changed its name to United World Wrestling UWW at a congress on Sunday before the Senior World Championships.