Gerhard Weisenberger

Gerhard Weisenberger ( born January 30, 1952 in Kleinostheim ) is a former German wrestler.

Career

Gerhard Berger way started in 1963 when Siegfried SC Kleinostheim with the rings. He made under coach Clement Schwab very rapid progress and was from 1967 already one of the best German youth wrestlers. In youth he still competed in two styles ( Greco- Roman and free style ), as a senior only in free style. From 1967 to 1970 Gerhard Berger way a total of six German youth champion in both styles in the weight category of up to 43 kg bodyweight ( 1967) to 60 kg body weight ( 1970). In 1971, he also became German Junior Champion in free style at featherweight before Alfons cellar Hallbergmoos, after he had become in 1970 behind Emil Mueller from Mainz bantamweight already German Vice - junior champion.

In the senior won Gerhard Weisenberger 1971 his first league titles in the featherweight and lightweight his fourth in 1976. The international career of it started with a 5th place in the World Youth Championship ( Juniors = up to age 18 ) in 1969 in Boulder / USA in free style in the class up to 60 kg body weight. He could place in 1972 in Hvar well as fifth also at the Junior World Championships 1970 in Huskvarna sixth and at the Junior European Championships.

At Olympic Games Gerhard Weisenberger was twice at the start. In Munich in 1972, he started at featherweight and achieved two wins the 8th Place. In Montreal in 1976, he started at lightweight, reached back two victories, ended up in the final but only on the 12th Place.

Several times was Gerhard Berger way even at world and European championships at the start. He scored the biggest success of his career at the European Championship 1975 in Ludwigshafen. He won there with three wins the European Championship bronze medal.

Gerhard Weisenberger, who wrestled in the meantime for the SV unity Aschaffenburg Damm and also for the KSV Witten, ended after 1976 his international career Ringer. The clerk at the Aschaffenburg town works remained faithful to the struggle but as a coach to this day. For many years he coached the team of AC Ringer Bavaria Goldbach and won with this club in the late 1980s and early 1990s, several times the German team championship. For many years, he is also the Hessian regional trainer. His son Peter Weisenberger is one of the best freestyle wrestlers in Germany and was already elderly German masters.

International success

(all competitions in free style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, bantamweight, then to 57 kg Featherweight, then to 62 kg lightweight, then to 68 kg body weight (bw ) )

German Championships

Swell

  • Journals athletics from the years 1967 to 1975 and The wrestler from 1976,
  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976, pp. E-80, E -108, O -88, 0-105 and W -97,
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
  • One Hundred Years of struggle in Germany, publishing The wrestler, Lower Berg, 1991, p 205,
  • Yearbook 1972 of the German Federal Ringer, athletics -Verlag, Karlsruhe, 1972, pp. 203, 204, 214, 215, 216 and 217
  • Site sports komplett.de

Weblink

Profile of Gerhard Berger way at the Institute for Applied Training Science

  • Ringer ( Germany )
  • German
  • Olympian ( Germany )
  • German master (wrestling )
  • Athletes ( Aschaffenburg )
  • Born in 1952
  • Man
  • Person ( Kleinostheim )
Boulder (Colorado) Bulgaria Greece Italy East Germany 1971 World Wrestling Championships Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics Guatemala Gian-Matteo Ranzi Wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics Finland Bruchsal Freising Viernheim Dettingen Klaus Rost Niedernberg
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