Today in the history: 30 December

Jozef Krnac (SLV) was one of the European sensations of the Athens Olympic Games. The Slovakian celebrates his birthday today and can look back to a great 2004. In the Olympic final U66 he lost to Japanese Masato Uchishiba. In his semi final he surprised Cuban Yordanis Arencibia who had shown great skills that day. Krnac totally devastated the Cuban favourite.
Krnac this year also won the A-tournament of Prague started his international career with a world junior title in Porto 1996. It took 8 years to be back on world level, but than on a bigger stage; the Olympic Games.