Some worthy coaches – like Klaus Peter Stollberg and Bela Riesz – go to their well-deserved retirement, some – like the Poles Robert Krawczyk – returned to their homeland, but there are newcomers to red-white-red judo. completion Jozef Krnacthe Slovakian Olympic silver medalist in Athens 2004 (up to 66 kilos) now follows the Portuguese Miguel Ogando Lopes (@IJF) for the Linz Olympic base is another international capazunder. Coach castling in ÖJV…
Lopes has an excellent international reputation. The 37-year-old Portuguese joins the ÖJV head coach as the new national coach of the general class Yvonne Snir-Bönisch and will work with the judoka at the Linz base. He replaces the outgoing Krawczyk. For the past five years, Lopes has worked for the German Judo Federation as a federal base trainer in Hanover, including daily training sessions with successful Olympians. Giovanna Scoccimarro and Igor Wandtke responsible. Before that, the Portuguese also worked at the Leipzig base and as a national coach in Denmark.
“I am looking forward to my next career step. Until now, I only look at the World Championships and Olympic Games. In Austria I have the opportunity to develop and establish myself in a top-class coaching team. The successes of the last few years speak for themselves. “I didn’t have to think about it for a long time,” emphasized Lopes, who – due to an injury – started a coaching career early. .” Miguel had to end his active career at the age of 21 after suffering two herniated discs. He already has a lot of international experience as a coach and should be a perfect fit for us,” confirmed ÖJV’s sports director. Markus Moser.
That shook a lot of hands in the past few days. Linz’s longtime trainer Stollberg, a successful judoka in the GDR and a supporter of ours Sabrina “Sauce” Filzmoser (“He had a big part in my successes,” he said about Stolli”), passed in October, and the Hungarian Riesz retired at the end of the year. The Under 23 European Championships in Pila (POL) are his last major tournament – with gold from Elena Dengg and Viennese bronze Magamed Birchashvilli a very successful one. “I’m not particularly sad or relieved. You retire at age 65 – that eventually happens to everyone. This Under-23 European Championship is therefore a completely normal competition for me. But of course it’s nice to hear the Austrian national anthem again. Elena really deserves this gold medal!”
In the southern city Tthis summer resigned from his position due to personal reasons (including the vice president of the Vienna regional association), a replacement should also be found there – with the 46-year-old Krnac they found an experienced person who knows a lot about young people. of the Südstadt model, especially the floor techniques, are instructive.
That’s not enough: Lisa Denggbrother of the newly crowned U23 European champion, will join Welser from December 1st Michael Winklertake care of the descendants. Both bring their knowledge as sports scientists. The two winds of Vienna are in the east Martin Grafl and Bernhard Weissteiner Young national coach. There’s a lot going on in the red-white-red coach castling…