Mirko Englich
Mirko Englich ( born August 28, 1978 in Witten ) is a German wrestler who fights primarily in the Greco- Roman style. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 he won the silver medal.
Life
Since the withdrawal of its common association KSV Witten 07 from the Ringer - Bundesliga in 2009 Englich fought for the first Luckenwalder Sports Club in the first division. 2013 he returned to Witten. In individual championships, he was active for the RSV Hansa 90 Frankfurt ( Oder). From 2007 to 2009 he trained as a firefighter at the National Fire Academy in ironworks City / Brandenburg. This specialized training allows for a career in high performance sport. Today he works there as a teacher.
Englich " talent search and promotion NRW" in Witten in 1985 in the context of the country program discovered for the wrestling sport. In his first German Youth Championship 1991, he won the silver medal from 1992 to 1998, in each episode the championship of the C-, B- and A- Youth and the junior class weight classes (38 to 90 kg ).
The first title in the men he was at the 1998 German Championships in Witten gain (90 kg), more then in the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010 (96 kg).
His international career began in 1993 when he took the 6th place in the " cadet World Championships " (weight class 51 kg ). The greatest successes are two Vice European Championships in the 96 kg class ( Greco-Roman style) 2003 in Belgrade and 2008 in Tampere (Finland), the European Junior Championships in 1998 (90 kg gold medal in Tirana ) and the title at the world Military Championship in 2003 in Istanbul. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing Englich won the silver medal in Greco-Roman wrestling to 96 kg.
Other successful international stations were the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 ( 11th place ), the World Championships in 2002 ( 8 ) 2003 ( 10 ), 2005 ( fifth ) and 2010 ( 11 ), the European Championships Men 2001 (9. ) and 2010 ( 5 ) as well as the Grand Prix of Germany 2005 ( 3 ), 2007 and 2010 (each second ). One of the outstanding events of the Olympic qualifying tournament in 2008 is one in Novi Sad ( Serbia), where he secured with his success in the last encounter the third place and consequently the last spot for the Olympic Games in Beijing.
The cost in the Ringer - Bundesliga he gave in November 1992, when he was in the 48 kg class against the townspeople Stefan Schiffer Gart man lost at age 14 with 3:9. This was followed in the season more encounters in the 48 - and 52 -kg class, including against Freddy and Markus Scherer, Frank Heinzelbecker, Rosario Schmitt or André Zoschke. After two years in the league team KSV Witten 07 he moved to AC Cologne -Mülheim, where he was active in the 2nd Bundesliga two years. Subsequently, he spent one year in the first league in the KSK Konkordia Neuss, before he returned in 1999 to KSV Witten, for which he fought until 2009 in the.
2008 Mirko Englich was awarded the Hermann Weingartner Prize of the city of Frankfurt (Oder). This year he was also elected to Germany's wrestler of the year.
Mirko Englich was trained by the trainers Frank Bartel, Andreas Ehnert, Bodo Lukowski, Günter Reichelt, Jörn Lever husband and Maik Bull man. He is married to the wrestler Yvonne Englich, has two children. He is 1.85 m tall, his normal weight is 102 kg.