Łukasz Banak (born September 4, 1983 in
Międzyrzecz
Międzyrzecz (; la, Meserici, german: link=no, Meseritz) is a town in western Poland, on the Obra and Paklica river, with 17,667 inhabitants (2020). The capital of Gmina Międzyrzecz and Międzyrzecz County. Since the Local Government Reorganiz ...
) is an amateur Polish Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's super heavyweight category.
He won a bronze medal in his division at the
2007 CISM World Military Games in
Hyderabad, India
Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the '' de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern In ...
. He is also a member of WKS Slansk in Wrocław, and is coached and trained by Jozef Tracz.
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Banak represented Poland at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed in the Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg, men's 120 kg class. He defeated Tunisia's Radhouane Chebbi in the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out the quarterfinal match to Estonia's Heiki Nabi, who was able to score one point each in two straight periods, leaving Banak without a single point. Because his opponent advanced further into the final match, Banak had another shot for the bronze medal by entering the repechage bouts. Unfortunately, he was defeated in the first round by Belarus' Ioseb Chugoshvili, with a technical score of 0–3.]
References
External links
Profile – International Wrestling Database
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Polish male sport wrestlers
1983 births
Living people
Olympic wrestlers of Poland
Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
People from Międzyrzecz
Sportspeople from Lubusz Voivodeship
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