Adolf Seger
| Adolf Seger medal table |
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|---|---|---|
| Germany | ||
| Olympic games | ||
| bronze | 1972 Munich | Welter |
| bronze | 1976 Montreal | medium |
| World Championship | ||
| gold | 1975 Minsk | medium |
| gold | 1977 Lausanne | medium |
| silver | 1978 Mexico City | medium |
| European Championship | ||
| bronze | 1969 Sofia | Welter |
| gold | 1972 Katowice | Welter |
| gold | 1973 Lausanne | Welter |
| silver | 1974 Madrid | Welter |
| gold | 1976 Leningrad | medium |
| silver | 1978 Sofia | medium |
| bronze | 1979 Bucharest | medium |
Adolf Seger (born January 2, 1945 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a former German wrestler . He was a two-time medalist at the Olympic Games in 1972 and 1976 and two-time world champion in the world championship and middleweight division (freestyle). In the wrestling veterans (Masters), he won the world championship title ten times.
Personal history
Adolf Seger comes from a wrestling family: his father and five brothers were all active wrestlers. Five-year-old Adolf received his first wrestling lessons from his father. The sporting role model was his older brother Edmund (1937-2019), who fought in the German national wrestling team at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome .
Adolf Seger is married and a father of three. For 42 years he worked as a postman for the Deutsche Bundespost and Deutsche Post AG in Zähringen ; he has been retired since January 2010. In his free time, he campaigns for local politics, charity and the promotion of sports. Seger is still fit and active: in table tennis , in cycling and in strength training . He's still trained today and still holds his competition weight. He is also active as a training partner and coach in his association AV Germania St. Georgen .
Athletic career
Adolf Seger started in freestyle (world and middleweight), and he was often German, European and world champion . His greatest successes also included winning medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal . Seger is considered to be one of the best German wrestlers of all time. In particular, he has further developed fighting techniques on the ground. With the Seger grip named after him , he has achieved numerous shoulder victories.
Even as a young wrestler, Adolf Seger had major health problems. As early as the mid-1960s, he was not only suffering from the " cauliflower ear " typical of wrestlers , but above all from shoulder, back and knee injuries. During this time, Seger was under constant treatment at the Freiburg University Medical Center . The injuries delayed his international sports career for several years.
Seger's strength and athleticism were among the best in wrestling worldwide. The strenuous training and "weight gain" before competitions moved Seger in 1975 to switch from world champion to middleweight division.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Adolf Seger was a ten-time freestyle world champion among the wrestling veterans (Masters); this is unmatched anywhere in the world. Seger donated the prize money he received for this, amounting to US $ 15,000, to Children's Cancer Aid.
On September 11, 1972, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf for his sporting achievements.
International success
| year | space | competition | Weight class | |
| 1969 | 3. | EM in Sofia | Welter | with victories over Ludovic Ambrus, Romania , Pauli Tuuri, Finland , Janusz Pajak, Poland , a draw against Miklos Urbanovics, Hungary a . a loss to Yuri Gussow , USSR |
| 1969 | 5. | World Cup in Mar del Plata | Welter | with victories over Pasqual Palombo, Argentina a . Losses against Sarbeg Beriaschwili , USSR and Matti Poikkala , Finland |
| 1970 | 6th | EM in Berlin | Welter | with victories over Robert Blaser, Switzerland and Josef Völc, CSSR , a draw against Giuseppe Spagnoli, Italy and defeats against Sarbeg Beriaschwili a. Jan Karlsson , Sweden |
| 1970 | 2. | Tournament in Genoa | Welter | behind Jan Karlsson and in front of Robert Blaser |
| 1970 | 5. | World Cup in Edmonton | Welter | with wins over Giuseppe Spagnoli, David Briers, South Africa and Robert Blaser, a draw against Angel Petrow, Bulgaria and a defeat against Dandsandardschaagiin Sereeter , Mongolia |
| 1971 | 7th | World Cup in Sofia | Welter | with victories over Janusz Pajak, Poland, Pete Symons, USA and Francisco Lebeque, Cuba and defeats against Ludovic Ambrus and Mohammad Farhangdoust , Iran |
| 1972 | 1. | EM in Katowice | Welter | with victories over Mehmet Uzun , Turkey , Stefanos Ioannidis, Greece , Ludovic, Ambrus, Michael Busse , Poland and Roman Marsagaschwili, USSR z. despite a loss to Jancho Pavlov , Bulgaria |
| 1972 | bronze | OS in Munich | Welter | with victories over Francisco Lebeque, Alfred Wurr, Canada , Juri Gussow, Miklos Urbanovics and Mansour Barzegar , Iran and defeats against Jan Karlsson and Wayne Wells , USA |
| 1973 | 1. | EM in Lausanne | Welter | with victories over Kazimierz Kos, Poland, Peter Spycher, Switzerland, Jozsef Rusznyak, Hungary, Frank Birke , GDR , Christo Stantschew, Bulgaria and Viktor Silbermann , USSR |
| 1973 | 5. | World Cup in Tehran | Welter | with victories over Mitsuo Degawa, Japan and Panwar, India , a draw against Mansour Barzegar and defeats against Jancho Pawlow a. Ruslan Nuralievich Ashuraliev , USSR |
| 1974 | 2. | EM in Madrid | Welter | with victories over Nikoaes Palaskas, Greece, Dan Karabín , Czechoslovakia, Jancho Pawlow and Servet Aydemir, Turkey a. Defeats to Jan Karlsson and Ruslan Ashuraliyev |
| 1974 | 4th | World Cup in Istanbul | Welter | with victories over Stanley Dziedzic , USA, Dandsandardschaagiin Sereeter and Kazimierz Kos a. Defeats to Viktor Silbermann, Israel and Jancho Pavlov |
| 1975 | 6th | EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein | Welter | with victories over Jan Lachoda, Poland and Servet Aydemir and defeats against Dan Karabín a. Pawel Pinigin , USSR |
| 1975 | 1. | World Cup in Minsk | medium | with victories over Apostolos Mersiakaris, Greece, Wassili Sjulschin , USSR, Ismail Abilow , Bulgaria, Mehmet Uzun, Vasile Iorga , Romania and others. István Kovács , Hungary |
| 1976 | 1. | EM in Leningrad | medium | with victories over Wiktor Novoschilow , USSR, Jan Gorski , Poland, István Kovács and Ismail Abilow |
| 1976 | bronze | OS in Montreal | medium | with victories over Anthony Shacklady, Great Britain , André Bouchoule , France and Henryk Mazur , Poland and defeats against Wiktor Nowoschilow a. John Peterson , USA |
| 1977 | 5. | EM in Bursa | medium | with victories over Georgios Pahtas, Greece and Daima Pereira, Spain and defeats against Hassan Zangiew , USSR and Mehmet Uzun |
| 1977 | 1. | World Cup in Lausanne | medium | with victories over Jan Gorski, Poland, Dsewegiin Düwtschin , Mongolia, Christopher Campbell , USA and István Kovács and despite a defeat against Magomedchan Arazilow , USSR |
| 1978 | 2. | EM in Sofia | medium | with victories against Georgios Polychronidis, Greece, Pawel Szabo, Czechoslovakia, István Kovács and Tiberiu Sereghely , Romania and one defeat against Schukri Lutwiew-Akhmedov , Bulgaria |
| 1978 | 2. | World Cup in Mexico City | medium | with victories over Richard Deschatelets, Canada, Akira Ōta , Japan, Dsewegiin Düwtschin, István Kovács and John Peterson and defeats against Schukri Lutwiew-Achmedow a. Magomedkhan Arazilov |
| 1979 | 3. | EM in Bucharest | medium | with victories over Günter Busarello , Austria , Efraim Kamberow , Bulgaria a. Reşit Karabacak , Turkey and defeats to Oleg Alexejew , USSR and István Kovács |
| 1979 | 5. | World Cup in San Diego | medium | with a win over Alan Thompson, Australia and losses to John Peterson a. Magomedkhan Arazilov |
| 1980 | 12. | EM in Prievidza | medium | after defeats to Vasile Tiganas, Romania and Günter Busarello |
German championships
| year | space | Weight class | Result |
| 1967 | 3. | Welter | behind Otto Alt , Schifferstadt u. Peter Nettekoven , Dortmund |
| 1969 | 2. | Welter | behind Reinhard Zeiher , Brötzingen u. in front of Günter Niedermaier, Hallbergmoos |
| 1970 | 2. | Welter | behind Reinhard Zeiher u. before Günter Niedermaier |
| 1971 | 1. | Welter | before Wolfgang Engel, Baienfurt a . Fritz Sauer, Ladenburg |
| 1972 | 1. | Welter | before Reinhard Zeiher u. Konrad Schluttenhofer, Freising |
| 1973 | 1. | Welter | before Reinhard Zeiher u. Peter Schöffler, Freiburg im Breisgau |
| 1974 | 1. | medium | before Bernhard Dunke, Efferen a . Willibald Liebgott , Freiburg |
| 1975 | 1. | medium | in front of Hubert Krämer, Haslach u. Martin Dassler, Untertürkheim |
| 1976 | 1. | medium | before Willibald Liebgott u. Hubert Kramer |
| 1977 | 1. | medium | before Heribert Metz, Waldaschaff u. Detlef Englich, Witten |
| 1978 | 1. | medium | in front of Detlef Englich u. Karl-Heinz Fettel, Freiburg |
| 1979 | 1. | medium | before Willibald Liebgott u. Alexander Senn , Freiburg |
| 1980 | 1. | medium | before Hans-Joachim Klötzing , Witten a . Heribert Metz |
Note: all competitions in free style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, welterweight, up to 74 kg, middleweight, up to 82 kg body weight
Quotes about Adolf Seger
"Many can fall, only a few can get up."
"The strongest postman in Germany."
"A very strong postman."
swell
- Trade magazines Athletics from 1965 to 1975 and Der Ringer from 1976 to 1980
- Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976
- Hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer publishing house , Niedernberg , 1991, pages 200, 228 u. 229
- Munzinger Sports Archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Andres Streppenick: Houdini on the mat. The Freiburg wrestling legend Adolf Seger is 75 years old. In: The Sunday of January 5, 2020, p. 7.
- ↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 72
Web links
- Profile of Adolf Seger at the Institute for Applied Training Science
- Adolf Seger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Adolf Seger: Veteran World Champion and Muscle Man (2000)
- Autograph card from Adolf Seger
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seger, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |