Karl-Heinz Helbing

Karl -Heinz Helbing ( born March 7, 1957 in Mainz -Kastel ) is a former German wrestler and winner of the bronze medal at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal in Greco-Roman wrestling in the welterweight division.

Career

Karl -Heinz Helbing began as a 12- year-old boy at the ASV Mainz in 1888 with the rings. Under the guidance of coach Kurt Steinmetz, Nuri Cakici and Franz Schmitt ( wrestler), he quickly developed into an outstanding wrestler in the Greco-Roman style, even as a 16 -year-old in 1973, German Junior Champion ( di age group up to 21 years) in the welterweight division was. In 1974, he also became German Junior Champion ( di age group up to 18 years ) in the class up to 75 kg body weight.

1975 surprised Karl-Heinz wrestlers professional world, when he finished as 18 -year-old freshman at the Grand Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany in Aschaffenburg welterweight an excellent 3rd place. 1976 succeeded Karl -Heinz the first title in a German Championship of seniors and qualifying for the Olympic Games in Montreal. In Montreal experienced the 19 -year-old the greatest moments of his career, as he won the bronze medal in the welterweight division there.

1977 succeeded Karl -Heinz once again a great success at junior level when he runner-up at the espoir ( aged under 20) in the welterweight division was in Las Vegas. At the World Championships 1977 in Gothenburg Karl -Heinz met after three wins in the 4th round to the silver medal winner of the Montreal Vitezlav Macha. In a grim battle out any of the athletes achieved a rating, whereupon both were desqualifiziert for passivity and were loaded with 4 faulty points. While Karl -Heinz Helbing was eliminated after a brief point defeat in the fifth round against Sweden Lennart Lundell to Macha fought through to win the title.

In the coming years, Karl- Heinz won at the World Championships in 1979 in San Diego welterweight again a bronze medal. He could also place some international championships in the front of the field, so he was, for example, at the European Championships 1980 in Prievidza fourth winner, finishing in the same place too. during the 1984 European Championship in Jonkoping, another medal win him but did not succeed in In 1980, 07 changed to KSV Witten, where he oversaw Fritz Schrader Karl -Heinz Helbing.

Karl -Heinz Helbing was a frequent starter. In the international championships and numerous other tournaments that he played, he defeated among others following highly decorated world-class wrestler: Vyacheslav Mkrytschew and Vladimir Galkin from the USSR, Mikko Huhtala and Jouko Salomäki from Finland, Petros Galaktopoulos from Greece, Stanisław Krzesiński, Andrzej Franas and Andrzej Supron from Poland, Lennart Lundell from Sweden, Gheorghe Ciobotaru and Stefan Rusu from Romania. Karl -Heinz but was also scared opponents against which he could never win, that was mainly Vítězslav Macha from Czechoslovakia, Mikhail Mamiaschwili from the USSR and Ferenc Kocsis from Hungary.

Karl -Heinz Helbing, the installer had learned, is an employee of the Stadtwerke Mainz. In 1986, he ended his international career. He was then at many clubs as a coach, mentioned here are only the ASV Mainz in 1888, the RWG Moembris -Königshofen and TSV Gailbach. He is currently a regional trainer in Rheinhessen, assistant coach of the women's national team at the German ringer collar and head coach of the WCG Lower Nahe. Of his eight children, some of whom were also on the wrestling mat, especially his daughter Sabrina ( uaEuropameisterin ) did show that belonged to the German class in women's wrestling.

International success

(all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, welterweight, then to 74 kg body weight)

German Championships

Swell

  • Various editions of the journals athletics from 1974 to 1975, The wrestler from the years 1976 to 1985
  • One Hundred Years of struggle in Germany. Publishing " The Ringer ", Lower Mount, 1991
  • Website of the Institute for Applied Training Science of the University of Leipzig
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