SILVERBACKS
2003 Veterans 12th Freestyle Wrestling World Championship
(Budapest, Hungary from July 31 thru August 3, 2003)

The 2003 Veterans 12th Freestyle World Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary July 31 through August 3, 2003.  The team results were:

  • Hungary - 1st
  • Russia - 2nd
  • USA - 3rd

With 26 entrants, the USA team picked up 4 Gold, 4 Silver, and 3 Bronze.

Congratulations to USA Veterans Freestyle World Champions, GOLD Medalists: 

  • Don Apodaca of Huntington Beach, CA (E-85kg)
  • Bob Anderson of Chula Vista, CA (E-97kg)
  • Dwain Burkholder of Woodland Park, CO (D-58kg)
  • Joseph Podraza of Brooklyn, CA (D-97kg)

And congratulations to all the other USA and international medalists and participants, well done.

Check the USA Wrestling web page at http://www.themat.com/ for full details online. Check http://www.themat.com/pressbox/pressdetail.asp?aid=7961 for the USA representatives.

HUNGARIAN WRESTLING FEDERATION at: http://www.birkozoszov.hu/index_e.html

The following are partial results from the tournament, if there are any corrections or additions you can make, please forward them to us. 

(Photo by George Dunn)
2003 Veterans World FS Championships, Budapest, Hungary

Weight Wrestler Club/Country
Division A (35-40)
127.75/58kg

1st - Masahiro Soneta 
2nd - Winifried Kuhner 
3rd - Mikhail Klimov 

 Japan
Germany
Russia
138.75/63kg 1st - Tibor Tihanics
2nd - Boris Saava 
3rd -  Georgeh Bistrichi
6th - Mel East
dnp - Ruslan Yakhyaev
dnp - Aleksejs Kostirevs

Hungary
Moldova 
Moldova 
Bakersfield, Calif., USA 
Russia
Latvia

152/69kg 1st - Jozef Kostirevs
2nd - Aleksejs Kostirevs
3rd - Tibor Copik		 Slovakia
Latvia
Slovakia
167.5/76kg 1st - Gyozo Lakatos
2nd - Charpoudi Islaimov		 Hungary
Russia
187.25/85kg 1st - Azat Sheroyan 
2nd - Attila Repka
3rd - Khazmat Israilov
5th – Jeffrey Anderson
dnp - Gabor Kis 
dnp - Azat Sheroyan 
dnp - Imre Lukacz		 Armenia 
Hungary
Russia
Elburn, Ill., USA
Hungary
Armenia
Hungary
213.75/97kg 1st - Aliakbar Jirsaraei
2nd - Aleksandrs Galkins
3rd - Miroslav Vlastnik 
5th - Steven Stobaugh 
dnp - Igors Slakers 		 Iran
Latvia
Czech Republic
USA
Latvia
286/130kg 1st - Alexandru Ballai 
2nd - Thomas Dybiona
3rd - Gyorgy Kekes		 Romania
Germany
Hungary
Division B (41-45)
127.75/58kg 1st - Zhora Hovhannisyan  
2nd - Raymond Mohlman 
3rd - George Dunn 

Iran
Lake Worth, Fla., USA
Bellevue, Wash., USA

138.75/63kg 1st - Gennadiy Meredov  Turkmenistan
152/69kg 1st - Rahim Aliyev
2nd - Beslan Tushtrahov
3rd - Laszlo Szanati 		 Azerbaijan
Ukraine 
Hungary
167.5/76kg 1st - Tomas Matz
2nd - Lambert Prukner
3rd - Janos Schwantcz		 Germany
Czech Republic
Hungary
187.25/85kg 1st - Gyula Boros 
2nd - Alexandre Vertokhvostov
3rd - Oleg Krapivin		 Hungary 
Russia
Azerbaijan
213.75/97kg 1st - Davoud Basi Nosrat  
2nd - Csaba Bodrogi  
3rd - Alexey Sergeyev
5th - Jeff Henry
dnp - Iuliu Boeriu 		 Iran
Romania
Kazakhstan
Los Angeles, Calif., USA
Romania
286/130kg 1st -  Emil Toth 
2nd - Istvan Foldesi
3rd - Ralf Lenz		 Hungary 
Hungary 
Germany
Division C (46-50)
127.75/58kg 1st - Yevgeniy Lim
2nd - Valeriy Brusentsov
3rd - Andrzej Gawor 

Kazakhstan
Russia
Poland

138.75/63kg 1st - Izak Steyn 
2nd - Peter Zurfleih 
3rd - Paul Herder 		 South Africa
Camp Hill, Pa., USA
Montrose, Colo., USA
152/69kg 1st - Erhard Pocher  
2nd - Pavel Garanovschi
2nd - Yury Komarevtsev
4th – Craig Johnson 
dnp - James Hawthorn		 Germany
Moldova
Russia
Broomfield, Colo., USA
Great Britain 
167.5/76kg 1st - Lametullakh Murtazaliev 
2nd - Kluas Knittel 
3rd - Bernd Radestock		 Russia
Germany
Germany
187.25/85kg 1st - Mussan Abdul–Muslimov
2nd - Boris Shishkin
3rd - Andrejs Smigarevs 		 Kazakhstan
Russia
Latvia
213.75/97kg 1st - Kartar Singh
2nd - Franz Pitschmann
3rd - Abbasi Seyed		 India
Austria
Germany
286/130kg 1st - Said Ammaev 
2nd - Georgiy Manucharyan
3rd - Jacek Kalwasinski
4th – David Eads 		 Russia
Ukraine
Poland
Salem, Ore., USA
Division D (51-55)
127.75/58kg 1st - Dwain Burkholder
2nd - Viktor Tchirkov
3rd - Vladimir Kim 
4th  - Gerald Silva 
5th - Clifford Ray
6th - Tommy Reyna 

Woodland Park, Colo., USA
Russia
Russia
Mechanicsburg, Pa., USA
Mesa, Ariz., USA
Edmond, Okla., USA

138.75/63kg 1st - Ismael Kosukoglu 
2nd - Shirzad Ahmadi 
3rd - Richard Goretzki
4th - Ronald Engel 
5th - Loren Rabnick 		 Turkey
Coventry, Conn., USA
Germany
St. Helena, Calif., USA
Fairlawn, Ohio, USA
152/69kg 1st - Anzor Lazishvili 
2nd - Imre Jaszkai  
3rd - John Bennett 
5th  - Jim Lucas 
dnp - M. Mudra
dnp - Rudolf Ganserich 		 Georgia
Hungary
Kensington, Conn., USA
Santa Cruz, Calif., USA
Hungary 
Germany
167.5/76kg 1st - Ikhak Gaydarbegov
2nd - Petru Marta 
3rd - Vladimir Udod 
5th - Greg Archer
dnp - Jozsef Szava 
dnp - Magomed Barudinov 
dnp - Sandor Gogan		 Russia
Moldova
Russia
Terre Haute, Ind., USA
Hungary
Russia 
Hungary
187.25/85kg 1st - Rahim Aboie
2nd - Siegfried Jozlowski
3rd - Dmitry Khlebnikov		 Iran
Germany
Russia
213.75/97kg 1st - Joseph Podraza 
2nd - Ron Cole 
3rd - Vladimirs Golubevs
dnp - Mihaly Kollarik
dnp - Parviz Arshadi 
dnp - David McIntyre		 Brooklyn, N.Y., USA
Auburn, Wash., USA 
Latvia
Hungary
Iran
Australia
286/130kg 1st - Gerhard Siebold
2nd - George Etzbeth 
3rd - Janos Rovnyai		 Germany
South Africa
Hungary
Division E (56+)
127.75/58kg 1st -  Innokenty Kotchine
2nd - Masaaki Hatta
3rd - Peteris Ivbulis

Russia
Japan
Latvia

138.75/63kg 1st - Osamu Watanabe
2nd - Sandor Tovisi
3rd - Imre Baumann		 Japan
Hungary
Hungary
152/69kg 1st - Viktor Tonkikh 
2nd -  Myrzagerey Urgeshpayev  
3rd - Istvan Csatlos 		 Russia
Kazakhstan 
Hungary
167.5/76kg 1st - Arnost Bohm 
2nd - Saed Shamsedin
3rd - Magomed Dalgatov
5th - James Butcher 
9th - Charles Boyd 		 Czech Republic
Iran
Russia
Richmond, Va., USA
Roanoke, Va., USA
187.25/85kg 1st - Donald Apodaca
2nd - Milan Kohur
3rd -  Shiro Aoyama
dnp - Ravindra Kawade
dnp - Janos Balassa
dnp - Kumar Jagdiah
dnp - Jozsef Molnar
dnp - Leo Ritter		 Huntington Beach, Calif., USA
Slovakia 
Japan
India
Hungary
India
Hungary
Germany
213.75/97kg 1st - Bob Anderson
2nd - Teodore Sammet
3rd - Ludovic Ambrus
dnp - Arnoldus Kooiimans
dnp - Mikhail Malear 		 Chula Vista, Calif., USA
Germany
Romania
Netherlands
Moldova 
286/130kg 1st - Josip Corak
2nd - Janos Seres
3rd - Janis Rancans		 Croatia
Hungary 
Latvia
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