Udo Schröder

Udo Schröder ( born December 12, 1950 in Herne ) is a former German wrestler.

Career

Udo Schröder grew up in Brandenburg Wittenberg and began at the SSG Werner soul binder with the rings. Because of his talent, he was soon delegated to the DDR top team SG Dynamo Luckenwalde, where he developed into an excellent freestyle wrestler. As early as 1970 he was first GDR champion at lightweight.

It followed in the years to 1974 then inserts at five international championships. Udo scoring always respectable results, although it was denied in the medals also the jump. His best result was the fifth place at the 1972 European Championship in Katowice, where he succeeded also two notable victories over the West German silver medal winner at the Olympic Games of 1964 Klaus rust and the Soviet representative Vasily Kazakow.

At the World Championships in 1971 in Sofia Udo Schröder had become the sixth with four wins and he took the same seat at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich in lightweight. With a 6th place at the European Championships 1974 in Madrid, he finished his international career Ringer.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = free style, Le = Lightweight, We = welterweight, then up to 68kg bzw.74 kg body weight)

GDR Championships

Swell

• Journal Athletics from 1970 to 1975
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
• One Hundred Years of struggle in Germany, publishing The wrestler, Lower Berg, 1991, pages 199 and 239
• Www.sport- komplett.de