Günter Kowalewski

Günter Kowalewski ( born October 31, 1943 in Dortmund- Marten ) is a former German wrestler.

Career

Günter Kowalewski began as a teenager when KSV Jahn Marten 05 in Dortmund with the wrestling sport. Later he moved to Sportunion Annen. He wrestled in two styles, the Greco-Roman and free style, but focused its international operations on the Greco- Roman style. As an adult, he was a powerful light heavyweight, but occasionally went to the mat in the heavyweight division at a size of 1.86 meters. In the course of his career he joined the KSV Witten 07 at. With this club he was in the 1974 German team champion.

1961 Günter Kowalewski German champion in the A- youth in free style in the weight category to 79 kg body weight. In 1964, a third place in the German Junior Championship in free style of middleweight.

His first success at the German Championships he achieved in 1966, when he was in the Greco-Roman wrestling in the middleweight division before Werner Hoppe Köllerbach German masters. In 1967 he repeated this title in the same style and the same weight. He referred again Werner Hoppe to 2nd place. In the free style, he finished behind 1967 Ernst Knoll Ziegelhausen and Heinz Sperling from Essen to 3rd place.

His next title recorded Günter Kowalewski in the German Championship in 1970., Where he won the Greco-Roman light heavyweight before Ernst Knoll and Lorenz Hecher from Hallbergmoos. 1971 and 1972, he came in Greco-Roman wrestling heavyweight respectively behind Ernst Knoll and Fred Theobald from ASV Köllerbach to 2nd place.

In 1973 Günter Kowalswski German champion in free style at heavyweight before Kaspar Eham from Bad Reichenhall and the Greco-Roman light heavyweight before Reinhard Drott from the ASV Mainz, 1888. In 1974, he was the last time German champion. He won the heavyweight in Greco-Roman wrestling before Pedro Pawlidis from Aalen and Albert Niederberger from Bad Reichenhall.

Overall, Günter Kowalewski won at senior level ie six German Championship titles in the individual competitions. For this purpose, the German championship title comes at the teams and the German championship title at the A- youth.

The international career of Günter Kowalewski was not as successful. In 1967 he was employed at the European Championships in Minsk middleweight Greco-Roman style. He lost there but against the world class wrestler Wenko Zinzarow from Bulgaria and Gheorghe Popovici of Romania. Something similar happened to him at the World Championships in 1967 in Bucharest. In the same style and in the same weight class, he lost against the Olympic champion from 1960 Branislav Simic from Yugoslavia and Sven Allan Olsson from Sweden.

Also at the European Championships in Berlin in 1970, he was unsuccessful. He was defeated there against the World Champion from 1967 Sillai Laszlo from Hungary and against Stoyan Ivanov from Bulgaria. A victory, he landed at the World Championships in 1971 in Sofia, when he was at light heavyweight winner over Ksroni from Lebanon. Against Josef Müller from Czechoslovakia he wrestled a draw, but against the Olympic champion from 1968 Lothar Metz from the GDR and Josip Corak from Yugoslavia, he suffered defeats.

In the 1972 European Championship in Katowice he wrestled heavyweight against Suleyman Akbayiz from Turkey and against Jan Sebetovsky from Czechoslovakia. Both fights ended 4:4, that is, that the wrestlers were disqualified because of " passivity " in both fights. Finally, Günter Kowalewski has also been used at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972. He wrestled there in the light heavyweight Greco-Roman style. In his first fight he won there over Wayne Baugham from the United States and subsequently lost his next two fights against Hakon Överby from Norway and Valeri Resanzew from the USSR, the Olympic champion was later. He finished in Munich in the final 8th place, thus achieving the best finish of his career at an international championship.

After the Olympic Games in Munich Günter Kowalewski ended his international career Ringer. He wrestled a few more years for his club, the KSV Witten 07 Professional operating Günter Kowalewski an inn in Witten -Annen.

International Competitions

German Championships

Note: OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, GR = Greco-Roman style, medium weight until 1968-87 kg heavyweight 1969-1996 up to 90 kg, Heavyweight, from 1969 to 1996-100 kg body weight

Swell

• Yearbook of the German Federal Ringer 1972 Athletics Verlag, Karlsruhe, 1972
• One Hundred Years of struggle in Germany, German publisher Ringer federal, Publisher The Ringer, low mountain, 1991
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
• Website of the KSV Witten 07

• German
• Ringer ( Germany )
• Olympian ( Germany )
• German master (wrestling )
• Born in 1943
• Man