Gian-Matteo Ranzi

Gian- Matteo Ranzi ( born January 31, 1948 in Faenza, Ravenna ) is an Italian former wrestler. He won a bronze medal at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich in Greco-Roman. Style in a lightweight.

Career

Gian- Matteo Ranzi began as a teenager with the struggle and became a member of CA Faenza, one of the leading Italian Ringer clubs. He wrestled in two styles, Greco- Roman and free style. He belonged to the Italian armed forces.

For the first time he started with 18 years at an international championship. That was in 1966 at the European Championships in Greco-Roman. Style food. In featherweight he had there suffered two defeats and ended up in 16th place. In 1968 he represented his country at an international match against the Federal Republic of Germany in Baienfurt. He wrestled in the lightweight, Greek and Roman. Style, draw against Franz Schmitt from Mainz.

In 1971 he started at the Mediterranean Games in free style welterweight and finished behind the Turks Uzun 2nd place. His next start at a major international championship was held in 1972. He competed at the Olympic Games in Munich in Greco-Roman. Style in lightweight, where she won the bronze medal quite surprising. He won in Munich five fights, losing only against the Olympic champion Shamil Chisamutdinow from the Soviet Union.

1974 won Gian- Matteo Ranzi in Glasgow in the EC championship in free style welterweight before Karl -Heinz Heckert from Germany and also won in 1975 at the EC Championship. In Frederikshavn / Denmark he landed in front of Madsen from Denmark and Karl -Heinz Helbing from the FRG in the Graeco-Roman. Style welterweight for the 1st place. In 1975 he also won at the Mediterranean Games in Algiers in the Greek - röm.Stil welterweight.

Not so good it was for him at the European Championships in 1976 in Leningrad, where he. , After two defeats in the Graeco-Roman Style ranked welterweight only the 12th Place and in the Olympics this year in Montreal, where the Greco-Roman he. Style finished 10th in the lightweight with a win. He lost in Montreal against Manfred Schöndorfer from Germany and against Heinz -Helmut Wehling from the GDR.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, GR = Greek and Roman. Styles, Fe = Featherweight, Le = Lightweight, We = welterweight, then 63 kg, 68 kg and 74 kg body weight)

Italian Championships

Gian- Matteo Ranzi was nine times Italian champion in both styles.

Swell

  • Journal athletics from 1966 to 1975, trade magazine The wrestler from 1976,
  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976, pp. E -48, O- 95, E -115 and O 100,
  • International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig

Weblink

  • Gian- Matteo Ranzi in the Database Olympics
  • Profile at sports- reference.com
  • Olympian (Italy )
  • Ringer (Italy )
  • Italian Master (wrestling )
  • Born in 1948
  • Man
Essen BRD (Germany) Karl-Heinz Helbing Heinz-Helmut Wehling East Germany Sønderborg France Mikko Huhtala Finland Gerhard Weisenberger
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