Roman Kierpacz
Roman Kierpacz ( born February 5, 1961 in Siemianowice Śląskie, Silesian Voivodeship ) is a former Polish wrestler. He was vice-champion in 1987 and European champion in 1980 and 1985 in the Greco-Roman style in paper or Flyweight
Career
Roman Kierpacz began at the age of 10 years with the rings. He belonged to the sports club GKS Katowice and trained as an electrical fitter. In the club he was trained by Stanislaw Túrós Jan Adamaszek and Antoni Masternak. In the National Team still Stanislaw Krzesinsiki was added as a coach. He wrestled exclusively in the Greco- Roman style. As an adult, he started at a size of 1.56 meters in the first paper weight ( up to 48 kg body weight), but grew from 1981 in the flyweight ( 52 kg body weight) into it.
Kierpacz novel, a brilliant engineer, physically and mentally strong, he began his international career with Ringer success at junior level. In 1978 he occupied at the Junior European Championships ( espoir ) in Oulu in the paper weight behind Totyu Andonow from Bulgaria and Timor Taimuraz Kasaraschwili, USSR. He started in the same year but with 17 years already in the Senior World Championships in Mexico City and also won a bronze medal there in the paper weight. He won it on Salih Bora from Turkey, the Vice World Champion of 1977 and Todor Guntschew from Bulgaria, while he lost from Romania against Yoshiteru Horiwaki from Japan and Constantin Alexandru.
In 1979 he competed at the European Championship in Bucharest and came there to victories over Dietmar Hinz from the GDR and Vincenzo Maenza from Italy. Counter Constantin Alexandru and Anatoly Basin of the USSR was defeated and got away with it on the 5th Place. In the same year, he still competed in the Junior World Cup in Haparanda flyweight and you came there behind benur Paschajan from the USSR and Nikolai Widow from Bulgaria to 3rd place.
1980 celebrated novel Kierpacz at the European Championships in Prievidza in paper weight the first major success of his career. He was with victories over world champion Constantin Alexandru, Uwe Baumann, DDR, Freddy Scherer, Germany, Saksylik Uschkempirow, Soviet Union and Totyu Andonow from Bulgaria to a sensational way European champion and defeated it with Saksylik Uschkempirow also the imminent Olympic champion from 1980 this weight class. When shortly thereafter held European Junior ( espoir ) in Bursa, he started back in the flyweight and had to settle there with the 5th Place. A big disappointment he experienced then at the Olympic Games in 1980, because he lost there against Ferenc Seres from Hungary and Saksylik Uschkempirow and landed so only on the 8th Place.
After his final shift in the flyweight novel Kierpacz launched in 1981 at the World Championships in Oslo. There, he managed only one victory over local hero Jon Rønningen. Lajos Rácz counter from Hungary and Ljubomir Zenkow from Bulgaria he lost and finished 7th. In 1982, he was only at the European Championships in Varna at the start, where he finished in third place behind benur Paschajan and Marian Stefan from Romania and thus won another medal.
He occupied the same seat at the European Championships 1983 in Belgrade. Here he placed behind Lajos Rácz and Sergei Djudajew from the USSR. Mladen Mladenov of Bulgaria and Constantin Alexandru he referred to the 4th and 5th at the World Cup 1983 in Kiev, it was enough for him just to 5th place, which he missed a medal. A bad year in 1984 for Roman Kierpacz. Due to an injury he was unable to participate at the European Championships and at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, he could not because of the boycott these Games to be launched by the former Eastern Bloc countries.
It was therefore more than just a comfort to him that he was again in Leipzig European flyweight champion in 1985. He pointed Misait Tasetdinow from the USSR, Valentin Krumow from Bulgaria, Tibor Jankovics from Czechoslovakia and Mihai Cişmaş from Romania to the places. At the World Championships 1985 in Oslo at Kolbotn he defeated among others Bernd Scherer from the Federal Republic of Germany, losing to Jon Rønningen but threw him back to 5th place.
The year 1986 was almost identical to the 1985. At the European novel Kierpacz was not at the start and at the World Championships this year in Budapest, he was only on the 6th Place. It won there before Sergei Djudajew Jon Rønningen. Very successful he was then again in 1987. He finished this year, first at the European Championships in Tampere behind Andriy Kalaschnykow from the USSR and Csaba Vadász from Hungary and the 3rd place in the autumn of that year he was in Clermont- Ferrand behind the Cuban Pedro Roque Favier even vice-champion. He let it Alexander Ignatenko from the USSR, Serge Robert of France and Valentin Krumow from Bulgaria behind.
1988 Roman Kierpacz then tried to win for the second time in the Olympics medal. In Seoul, but he only managed a 5th place in the flyweight behind Jon Rønningen, Atsuji Miyahara of Japan, Lee Jaek -suk, South Korea and Alexander Ignatenko.
Then novel Kierpacz ended his international career Ringer. He went into the Federal Republic of Germany and wrestled there for many years for the KSV Germania basking in the German Bundesliga. After ending his career as an active wrestler he worked as a youth coach at KSV Aalen and lived in Wasseralfingen.
International success
Note: all contests in Greco -Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, paper weight, then to 48 kg Flyweight, then to 52 kg body weight
Polish Championships
Was kierpacz novel in the years 1979, 1981 and 1985 1987 and 1988 Polish champion in Greco -Roman style in paper or flyweight.
Swell
- Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
- Journals Athletics and The Ringer,
- Www.olimpijski.pl site "