Lorenz Hecher

Lorenz Hecher ( born September 1, 1946 in Giggenhausen, Bavaria ) is a former German wrestler.

Career

Lorenz Hecher grew up near the Upper Bavarian Ringer stronghold Hallbergmoos, 30 km north of Munich, on. Even as a child, he met with his three years older brother Alfonso in the local club SV Ringer " Siegfried". In youth and junior level at the German Championships no great successes in. However, he remained faithful to the struggle and was rewarded with 3rd place in the light heavyweight division at the German championships 1970 in Freiburg im Breisgau. Lorenz Hecher, which was 1.76 m for a heavyweight only medium in size, rank almost exclusively in the Greco- Roman style. At the international level, although it did not succeed in winning a medal, but he reached a fourth and a fifth place in world championships and a fifth place in a European Championship outstanding results. The German Masters title he won three times.

Lorenz Hecher moved with his brother Alfons for ASV Schorndorf and wrestled there in the Ringer - Bundesliga. But he returned to Upper Bavaria and was still wrestling a few years for the SpVgg Freising. Lorenz Hecher is a farmer.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Hs = light heavyweight, S = Heavy weight, SS = Super Heavyweight, then up to 90 kg, 100 kg and 100 kg body weight )

German Championships

Swell

• Journal athletics from the years 1970 to 1976
• One Hundred Years of struggle in Germany, publishing The wrestler, Lower Berg, 1991, pp. 181, 220 and 221