David Vála (born April 17, 1978 in

Liberec Liberec (; german: Reichenberg ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 103,000 inhabitants and it is the fifth-largest city in the country. It lies on the Lusatian Neisse, in a basin surrounded by mountains. The city centre is well preser ...

) is an amateur Czech Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's heavyweight category. He won a silver medal in his division at the 2007 European Wrestling Championships in

Moscow, Russia Moscow ( , American English, US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia. The city stands on t ...

, losing out to Russian wrestler and former Olympic champion

Khasan Baroyev Khasan Makharbekovich Baroyev, os, Бæройты Махарбеджы фырт Хасан, Bærojty Maxarbedžy fyrt Xasan (born December 1, 1982) is a Russian Greco-Roman wrestler Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling- ...

. Vala is also a three-time Olympian (2000, 2004 and 2012), and a member of the wrestling team for PSK Olymp Praha under his personal coach Ervin Varga. Vala made his debut at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

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, where he competed in the men's super heavyweight division (130 kg). He placed third in a four-person preliminary pool against Israel's Yuri Evseitchik, Turkey's Fatih Bakir, and Poland's Marek Sitnik, accumulating a score of five technical and four classification points. At the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

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, Vala finished second in the preliminary pool round of the men's 120 kg class, against Baroyev and Belarus'

Andrei Chekhauskoi Andrei Paulavich Chekhauskoi ( be, Андрэй Паўлавіч чэхаўскай; born April 7, 1979) is a retired amateur Belarusian Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's super heavyweight category. Standing at tall and weighing at ...

, with a total score of three technical and classification points each. Eight years after competing in his last Olympics, Vala qualified for his third Czech team, at the age of 34, for the

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, by placing second in the men's heavyweight division in the Olympic Qualification Tournament in

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. He received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen match in the men's 96 kg class, before losing out to Cuban wrestler and Pan American Games champion

Yunior Estrada Yunior Estrada Falcon (born 23 September 1986 in Camagüey) is a Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler. He competed in the Greco-Roman 96 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where he was defeated by Artur Aleksanyan in the bronze medal match. This was a ...

, with a three-set technical score (0–1, 1–0, 0–1), and a classification point score of 1–3.

References

External links

Profile – International Wrestling Database
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vala, David 1978 births Living people Wrestlers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Czech male sport wrestlers Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic wrestlers for the Czech Republic Sportspeople from Liberec