Georg Gehring

George Gehring ( born November 14, 1903 in Frankenthal, † October 31, 1943 in Stettin) was a German wrestler from Ludwigshafen am Rhein, who scored his successes in the Greco- Roman style.

Career

He was athletic, athletic figure, weighed about 105 kg, and was also a good athlete and weightlifter. His international successes began in 1921 by winning the European Youth Championships. These successes then sat down to 1941 with ups and downs continued. He fought with all former world class wrestlers and was able to defeat most of them at least once. His battles against the Swedes Carl Westergren and Rudolf Svensson, against the Finns Hjalmar Nyström and against Kurt Horn Fischer, Nuremberg and Willi Müller (Cologne ) wrote Ringer history.

In 1932, George Gehring it had to be in hand in Los Angeles, Olympic champion in the heavyweight division of Greco-Roman style. In the preliminary round fights he had there to Sweden Carl Westergren, who was considered his toughest rival, defeated on points. But in his next fight he lost a complete surprise against the Czech Josef Urban, whom he had defeated before on several occasions and so slipped onto unbankbaren 4th place. At the opening ceremony of the games he was flag bearer for the German team.

In eleven countries fighting George Gehring remained victorious eleven times for the German team. He died at the age of 39 in 1943 in Szczecin.

International success

German Championships

It was also George Gehring with the season of the SV Siegfried Ludwigshafen German team champion four times (1937, 1938, 1940 and 1941).

Note: OS = Olympic Games, European Championship EM =, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style, heavy weight, then over 87 kg body weight

Swell

  • Journals athletics and weight training,
  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
  • Website of the Institute for Applied Training Science of the University of Leipzig,
  • Documentation " One Hundred Years of struggle in Germany ", publisher Ringer German Bund, publishing " The Ringer ", Lower Mount, 1992, pages 84 to 87, 178, 220, 221 and 231
Olympic weightlifting Josef Urban (sportsman) Milan Italy France Johan Richthoff Amsterdam Finland Nickolaus Hirschl Wrestling at the 1932 Summer Olympics Wrestling at the 1936 Summer Olympics Berlin Josef Klapuch Kristjan Palusalu Oberhausen Essen Integrated Authority File
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