Dávid Losonczi
{{short description|Hungarian Greco-Roman wrestler (born 2000)}}
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{{Medal|Sport| Men's Greco-Roman wrestling }}
{{Medal|Country| {{HUN}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2023 Belgrade|87 kg}}
{{MedalBronze|2022 Belgrade|87 kg}}
{{Medal|Competition|European Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2025 Bratislava|87 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition|Vehbi Emre & Hamit Kaplan Tournament}}
{{MedalGold|2023 Istanbul|87 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|2024 Antalya|87 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition|Grand Prix}}
{{MedalGold|2022 Warsaw|87 kg}}
{{MedalGold|2023 Budapest|87 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|2021 Rome|87 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|2024 Budapest|87 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|2025 Zagreb|87 kg}}
{{MedalSilver|2025 Tirana|87 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition|World U23 Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|2021 Belgrade|87 kg}}
{{Medal|Competition|European U23 Championship }}
{{MedalGold|2023 Bucharest|87 kg}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Juniors Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|2019 Pontevedra|87 kg}}
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Dávid Losonczi (born 1 July 2000){{Cite web |title=Wrestling Results Book |url=https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/WRE/OG2024_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240811181048/https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/WRE/OG2024_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf |archive-date=11 August 2024 |access-date=12 August 2024 |website=2024 Summer Olympics}} is a Hungarian Greco-Roman wrestler. He won the gold medal in the 87 kg event at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.{{cite web |title=David LOSONCZI |url=https://uww.org/athletes/losonczi-david |website=United World Wrestling |access-date=4 November 2022}}
Wrestling career
Losonczi competed in the 2021 World Wrestling Championships for athletes under 23 years of age. He won the silver medal in the men's Greco-Roman 87 kg event after losing to Aleksandr Komarov in the finals.{{cite web |title=U23 World Championships, Greco-Roman, U23, 87 kg |url=https://uww.org/arena/weight-category/7e7c37e3-3a62-11ec-803a-06b1e9be04dc/ranking.pdf |website=United World Wrestling |access-date=4 November 2022}}
He represented Hungary at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships, again competing in the 87 kg class. He reached the semi-final stage, in which he lost to Zurab Datunashvili,{{Cite web|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1127927/world-wrestling-championships-day-one|title=Host athletes shine at World Wrestling Championships in Serbia|first=Owen|last=Lloyd|work=Inside the Games|date=10 September 2022|access-date=13 September 2022}} and subsequently won the bronze match against Alex Bjurberg Kessidis.{{Cite web|url=https://uww.org/event/world-championships-61?section=results&tab&weight-category=a3f33247-3033-11ed-8ca8-06b1e9be04dc|title=World Championships Results: Weight Category (Results GR 87)|work=World Wrestling Championships|access-date=13 September 2022}}{{Cite web |title=2022 World Wrestling Championships Results Book |page=147 |url=https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-09/final-book-2022-senior-world-championships_compressed.pdf?VersionId=zoTz_Ra8zK5EkVhfrZuDG5THXf4.3ik. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220918183512/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-09/final-book-2022-senior-world-championships_compressed.pdf?VersionId=zoTz_Ra8zK5EkVhfrZuDG5THXf4.3ik. |archive-date=18 September 2022 |access-date=18 September 2022 |website=United World Wrestling}}
He won the silver medal at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, losing 8-7 to his Turkish rival Ali Cengiz in the men's Greco-Roman style 87 kilo final match. On 15 November 2023, the United World Wrestling recognized that a serious refereeing mistake had been committed which changed the outcome of this bout. Therefore, the UWW declared both wrestlers as the winners of the contest and award a gold medal to Dávid Losonczi.{{cite news |title=Losonczi awarded share of 87kg world title |url=https://uww.org/article/losonczi-awarded-share-87kg-world-title |access-date=15 November 2023 |work=United World Wrestling}} Dávid Losonczi defeated Kyrgyz Azat Salidinov 8-0 with a technical superiority in the second round, Azerbaijan's Islam Abbasov 8-0 with a technical superiority in the third round, and in the quarter-finals he defeated Belarusian Kiril Maskevic 6-1, who participated as an independent individual athlete, to reach the semi-finals. In the semi-final, he defeated Semen Novikov of Bulgaria with 10-0 technical superiority and reached the final.{{cite news |title=87kg Bracket |url=https://arena.uww.org/it/weight-category/show/1ee3cbaf-2f9e-6d98-bb0c-afa3fb9ce0fb/bracket/print |access-date=22 September 2023 |work=United World Wrestling}}
He represented Hungary at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.{{Cite web |title=SULEYMANOV Sanan |url=https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/sanan-suleymanov_1981775 |website=Olympics.com}} He lost his bronze medal match in the 87{{nbsp}}kg event at the Olympics.
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{{World Champions Greco-Roman wrestling middleweight}}
{{European Champions Greco-Roman wrestling middleweight}}
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Category:Hungarian male sport wrestlers
Category:World Wrestling Championships medalists
Category:World Wrestling Champions
Category:21st-century Hungarian sportsmen
Category:Wrestlers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic wrestlers for Hungary