István Majoros

Hungarian wrestler and Olympic champion

The native form of this personal name is Majoros István. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

István Majoros Medal record

Representing  Hungary
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Olympic Games
|  2004 Athens | 55 kg
World Championships
|  2005 Budapest | 55 kg

István Majoros (born 11 July 1974) is a Hungarian wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.

## Career[edit]

Majoros competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where he received a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the bantamweight class.[1] For this achievement he was elected Hungarian Sportsman of the Year.

Majoros received a bronze medal at the 2005 FILA Wrestling World Championships.

On December 31 (New Year's Eve), 2006, Majoros made his mixed martial arts debut against Norifumi Yamamoto at K-1 Dynamite in Osaka, Japan and lost via TKO in the 1st round. It was his only MMA bout.

## Mixed martial arts career[edit]

István Majoros

Born|  (1974-07-11) July 11, 1974 (age 49)
Budapest, Hungary
Height| 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)
Weight| 266 lb (121 kg)
Division| Featherweight
Style| Greco-Roman Wrestling
Fighting out of| Kecskemét, Hungary
Team| Hungarian Top Team (MMA)
Univer Kecskemet TE (Wrestlig)
Trainer| Sándor Bárdosi (MMA)
Tibor Tihanics (Wrestlig)
Years active| 2005 (MMA)
Mixed martial arts record
Total| 1
Wins| 0
Losses| 1
By knockout| 1
Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog

## Mixed martial arts record[edit]

Res.  | Record  | Opponent  | Method  | Event  | Date  | Round  | Time  | Location  | Notes

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Loss  | 0-1  |  Norifumi Yamamoto | TKO (punches)  | K-1 PREMIUM 2006 Dynamite!! | December 31, 2006 | 1  | 3:46  | Osaka, Japan  |

## References[edit]

1. ^ "2004 Summer Olympics - Athens, Greece - Wrestling" Archived 2007-08-28 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on August 28, 2008)

## External links[edit]

* István Majoros at Sherdog
* István Majoros at the International Wrestling Database
* István Majoros at Olympedia

Awards

Preceded by

Adrián Annus

|  Hungarian Sportsman of The Year
2004  | Succeeded by

Ákos Braun

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Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman bantamweight

* 1924 Eduard Pütsep (EST)
* 1928 Kurt Leucht (GER)
* 1932 Jakob Brendel (GER)
* 1936 Márton Lőrincz (HUN)
* 1948 Kurt Pettersén (SWE)
* 1952 Imre Hódos (HUN)
* 1956 Konstantin Vyrupayev (URS)
* 1960 Oleg Karavayev (URS)
* 1964 Masamitsu Ichiguchi (JPN)
* 1968 János Varga (HUN)
* 1972 Rustam Kazakov (URS)
* 1976 Pertti Ukkola (FIN)
* 1980 Shamil Serikov (URS)
* 1984 Pasquale Passarelli (FRG)
* 1988 András Sike (HUN)
* 1992 An Han-bong (KOR)
* 1996 Yuriy Melnichenko (KAZ)
* 2000 Armen Nazaryan (BUL)
* 2004 István Majoros (HUN)
* 2008 Nazyr Mankiev (RUS)
* 2012 Hamid Sourian (IRI)
* 2016 Ismael Borrero (CUB)
* 2020 Luis Orta (CUB)

* 1924–1928: 58 kg
* 1932–1936: 56 kg
* 1948–1996: 57 kg
* 2000: 58 kg
* 2004–2012: 55 kg
* 2016: 59 kg
* 2020–present: 60 kg

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