Wolfgang Nitschke
Wolfgang Nitschke ( born March 3, 1947 in Waldenburg in Glauchau ) is a former German wrestler and coach. He was Vice-European Champion 1969 in free style at welterweight.
Career
Wolfgang Nitschke began as a teenager with the rings. Although he still achieved more success as a teenager, he was on the basis of his talent delegated to SC Leipzig and educated there by the coaches Adolf Franke and Prof. Dr. Horst Rothert an outstanding freestyle wrestler. At the international wrestling mat he first drew attention in 1967 when he took an excellent second place in the " Tournament of Olympic hopes " in Koszalin / Poland, welterweight.
1968 Wolfgang occupied in the GDR welterweight championship behind Martin Heinze Hall 2nd place and won his first in 1969 GDR champion welterweight title. In the same year he was also employed at the European Championships in free style in Sofia. Equal, where he managed a brilliant entry on the international wrestling mat, because he was behind the Soviet athlete Yuri Gussow European vice-champion.
In the years 1970 and 1971, he was not quite so successful. But at least he won at the European Championships in Berlin in 1970 and came fifth place in both 1970 and 1971 at the World Championships in each case on the 8th Place.
In 1972, he won the European Championship in Katowice, this time starting at middleweight, again a medal, a bronze. He defeated thereby including the West German champion Peter Neumair. At the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Mozart had back abtrainiert in the welterweight division. He delivered in the Olympic tournament good fights, defeating even the later silver medalist January Karlsson from Sweden, but dropped out after defeats against the Bulgarians Jancho Pavlov and the later Olympic champion Wayne Wells, Maine, and took an excellent fifth place.
After 1972, Wolfgang Nitschke not appeared at international championships. He made a coaching education and worked as a trainer in Ringer's Association of the GDR. In 1991 he took the post of national coach for the freestyle area. This office he held well over 10 years and it was exceptionally successful. Wrestler Alexander Leipold like, Andreas Schröder, Heiko Balz, Sven Thiele, Hans Gstöttner, Rolf Lyding, Georg Swabia, Arawat Sabejew, Reiner Pitchfork, Andre Jürgen Backhaus and disk owe him a lot of success.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = free style, We = welterweight, middleweight Mi =, then to 74 kg or 82 kg body weight)