Alfons Hecher

Alfons Hecher (born October 16, 1943 in Giggenhausen , Bavaria ) is a former German wrestler .

Career

Alfons Hecher began as a teenager in Hallbergmoos , a place about 30 km north of Munich , where the focus of wrestling had shifted from Munich after 1945, together with his three years younger brother Lorenz with wrestling. At the regional level he soon achieved good results, but as a youth or junior he was not able to win any national titles. At German championships he did not draw attention to himself until he was an adult in 1965, when he became German runner-up in the light heavyweight division, Greco-Roman style, in Frankfurt am Main . He wrestled in both styles and became German masters in both styles. At international championships he preferred the free style. But he achieved his greatest success in the Greco-Roman style when he was third winner at the European Championships in Modena in 1969 . Alfons Hecher later moved from Hallbergmoos to ASV Schorndorf and after a few years returned to his Upper Bavarian homeland, but then fought for Freising . Even at over 60, Alfons Hecher is still active as a trainer and passes on his wrestling knowledge and experience.

Alfons Hecher learned to be a machine fitter.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = freestyle, GR = Greco-Roman style, HS = light heavyweight, then up to 97 kg body weight, S = heavyweight, then up to 100 kg body weight, SS = super heavyweight, then over 100 kg body weight)

year	space	competition	style	Weight class
1967	3.	Intern. Tournament in Bucharest	GR	S.	behind Per Svensson, Sweden and Niculae Martinescu, Romania, in front of Florea Chitu and Clemens Bordaianu, both Romania
1969	3.	EM in Modena	GR	S.	with victories over Bruno Jutzeler, Switzerland , Francesco Filipponi, Italy , a draw against world champion Per Svensson , Sweden , and a defeat against Gürbüz Lü, Turkey
1970	7th	EM in East Berlin	F.	S.	with victory over Alfred Menzi, Switzerland, and defeats against Vasil Todorow, Bulgaria , and Ahmet Ayık , Turkey
1971	6th	World Cup in Sofia	F.	S.	with victories over Robert Zingg, Switzerland, and Daniel Vernik, Argentina , and defeats against Giyasettin Yilmaz, Turkey, and Schota Lomidze , USSR
1972	3.	Interm. Tournament in Växjö	F.	S.	behind Gerd Bachmann, GDR and Karel Engel, CSSR
1972	10.	EM in Katowice	F.	S.	after defeats against Enache Panait, Romania , and Gerd Bachmann, GDR
1972	10.	OS in Munich	F.	S.	with victory over Henk Schenk, USA , and defeats against Hollogin Baianmunkh, Mongolia , and József Csatári , Hungary
1973	2.	Intern. Tournament in Klippan	GR	S.	behind Nikolai Balboschin , in front of Ignatov, both USSR

German championships

in Greco-Roman style:

year	space	Weight class
1965	2.	HS	behind Heinz Kiehl , Oggersheim , and in front of Günther Triebel, Frankfurt
1967	2.	HS	behind Kiehl and in front of Karl Strütt, Daxlanden
1968	2.	HS	behind Kiehl and in front of Djordje Lukac, Neu-Isenburg
1969	1.	S.	before Karl-Heinz Gerdsmeier , Aschaffenburg , and Heinz Eichelbaum , Witten
1970	2.	S.	behind Kiehl and in front of Eichelbaum
1971	2.	S.	behind Lorenz Hecher , Hallbergmoos , and in front of Eichelbaum
1975	3.	SS	behind Lorenz Hecher and Richard Wolff , Bad Reichenhall

in free style:

year	space	Weight class
1966	3.	HS	behind Kiehl and Horst Schwarz , Stuttgart-Untertürkheim
1967	2.	HS	behind Kiehl and in front of Dieter Rast, Berlin
1968	2.	HS	behind Lukac and in front of Kiehl
1969	1.	S.	before Reinhard Bock, Schorndorf, and Rast
1970	1.	S.	before Kiehl and Rast
1971	1.	S.	before Andreas Meyndt, Freiburg, and Wolfgang Gentzen, Efferen
1972	1.	S.	before Georg Vorbuchner, Bad Reichenhall, and Werner Ganda
1974	1.	SS	in front of Eichelbaum and Gerd Volz , Ludwigshafen am Rhein
1975	2.	SS	behind Eichelbaum and in front of Helmut Löw, Nuremberg
1979	3.	SS	behind Wolff and Gentzen

swell

• Hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Verlag "Der Ringer", Niedernberg, 1991, pages 181, 219, 220, 230 and 231
• Trade magazines Athletik and Der Ringer from 1963 to 1980