Rolf Lacour
Rolf Lacour ( born June 26, 1937 in Saarbrücken ) is a former German wrestler.
Career
Rolf Lacour grew up in Saarland and came at a young age in Burbach, a district of Saarbrücken, for rings. In youth and junior level he could not place it in the front of the field at the German Championships. 1959, at age 22, but he was second in the German championship in freestyle, flyweight. From then on he belonged to the German class, a few years later he reached the world top, where he remained until 1972. Rolf Lacour launched for the KSV Köllerbach, for which he still successfully wrestled in the 1980s in team fights. He was employed by the city of Saarbrücken.
The greatest success in the career of Rolf Lacour was winning the Vice World Champion title in 1965 in Greco-Roman flyweight. After the introduction of the paper weight in 1969 he launched this year successfully in this weight class who had their weight limit for a body weight of only 48 kg. He was this year in Modena European champion in Greco- Roman style.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = Freestyle, GR = Greco-Roman style, Flyweight, then 52 kg, paper weight, then to 48 kg body weight)
Success in the German Championships
Rolf Lacour won the German championship in Greco-Roman flyweight in 1962, 1963, 1967 and 1969, in free style 1962, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1972 in the paper weight ( total of 10 items). To this end, he was a total of eleven times more German vice-champion. Its main competitors were there Paul Neff, Schiffer city, Albert Wieser and Fritz Huber, both of Bad Reichenhall and Mario Sabattini, Freiburg im Breisgau. With his club, KSV Köllerbach, he also won in 1966 and 1968, the German team championship.
Swell
- Journal Athletics from 1960 to 1972.
- Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976.
- One Hundred Years of struggle in Germany. Publisher The wrestler who Niederberghaus 1976.