Dániel Ligeti (born July 31, 1989 in

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) is an amateur Hungarian

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, who competes in the men's super heavyweight category. He won the bronze medal for his division at the 2011 European Wrestling Championships in

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, and silver at the

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. Ligeti stands 1.92 metres (6 ft 3.5 in) tall and weighs 115 kilograms (254 lb). He is also currently a member of TuS Adelhausen in Rheinfelden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and is coached by Istvan Gulyas from the national wrestling team. Ligeti represented

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at the

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, where he competed in the 120 kg class in men's freestyle wrestling. He received a bye for the second preliminary match, before losing out to Belarus' Aleksey Shemarov, who was able to score four points in two straight periods, leaving Ligeti with a single point. He competed at the

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, beating Florian Temengil to reach the quarter finals where he lost to Levan Berianidze. In March 2021, he competed at the European Qualification Tournament in Budapest, Hungary hoping to qualify for the

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in Tokyo, Japan. In 2022, he won one of the bronze medals in his event at the Yasar Dogu Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey. He also won one of the bronze medals in the 125 kg event at the

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held in Budapest, Hungary. He competed in the 125kg event at the

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held in Belgrade, Serbia.

References

External links

NBC Olympics Profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ligeti, Daniel 1989 births Living people Olympic wrestlers for Hungary Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Szombathely European Games competitors for Hungary Wrestlers at the 2015 European Games Hungarian male sport wrestlers Wrestlers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 2019 European Games European Wrestling Championships medalists 21st-century Hungarian people