Alfred Tischendorf

Tischendorf (right) defeated the East Berlin turnip wedge in October 1957

Alfred Tischendorf (born November 26, 1934 in Eisenberg ) is a former German wrestler of the GDR .

Career

Alfred Tischendorf began in eastern Thuringia Gera at an early age to the rings . Many excellent results at the children's and youth spartakiads (championships) testified to his great talent for this sport. His next position was the BSG Otto Schott Jena , before he was delegated to SC Motor Jena due to his good performance . In 1953, at the age of 19, the straw-blonde young man was GDR runner-up in free style in the lightweight class. This was his first big success with the seniors. Over the years he won a total of seven GDR championship titles by 1962, four in the free style and three in the Greco-Roman style. He soon drew attention to himself on an international level with good results, so that in 1956 he was nominated for the all-German Olympic team for the Melbourne Games . In those years, Siegfried Schäfer from SC Motor Zella-Mehlis , Werner Rosowski and Martin Heinze from SC Chemie Halle and Rudolf Vesper from ASK Vorwärts Rostock , the later Olympic champion , were his toughest competitors in the GDR . Occasionally there were also encounters with wrestling teams from the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1957 he was defeated by Hofer Martin Merz on points in a friendship match between Jena and ASV Hof .

At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956, he finished 9th after he suffered defeats from the world-class athletes Per Berlin from Sweden and Wachtang Balawadze from the Soviet Union . In qualifying for the all-German team for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , Günther Maritschnigg from Witten - Annen failed , who then won the silver medal in the welterweight division in Rome. So he failed because of a bad man. Alfred Tischendorf performed excellently at the 1961 World Championships in Yokohama . He finished fourth in both styles and, with a little more luck, could have won a World Cup medal.

Alfred Tischendorf was a machinist by trade and retired from international competitive sport in 1963.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = freestyle, We = welterweight, back then up to 73 kg body weight)

• 1955, 2nd place , World Youth Festival in Warsaw , GR, We, behind Grigori Gamarnik , USSR and in front of Marin Belușica , Romania ;
• 1956, 9th place , OS in Melbourne , F, We, with victory over Mohamed Latif , Pakistan and defeats against Per Berlin , Sweden and Wachtang Balawadze , USSR ;
• 1957, 2nd place , tournament in Jena, F, We, behind Gyula Toth, Hungary and in front of Rolf Rook, GDR;
• 1958, 1st place , "Werner Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig , GR, We, ahead of Siegfried Schäfer , GDR and Traczewski, Poland ;
• 1961, 4th place , World Cup in Yokohama , Gr, We, with victories over Mohammad Arabi, Iran , Mohmoud Ibrahim, Egypt and Jaan Roots, USSR and a defeat against Valeriu Bularca , Romania;
• 1961, 4th place , World Championships in Yokohama, F, We, with victory over J. Frost, New Zealand and defeats against Michail Bekmursow , USSR and Imam-Ali Habibi , Iran

GDR championships

• 1953, 2nd place, F, Le, behind Heinz Becker, Greiz rotation and in front of Heinrich Keil, Dresden ,
• 1955, 1st place, F, We,
• 1956, 1st place, F, We,
• 1957, 1st place, F, We,
• 1958, 2nd place, GR, We, behind Siegfried Schäfer , SC Motor Zella-Mehlis and in front of Galdeczka, Gelenau / Erzgeb. ,
• 1959, 1st place, GR, We, ahead of Schäfer and Rudolf Vesper , ASK forward Rostock ,
• 1961, 1st place, GR, We, ahead of H. Weinhold, ASK Vorwärts Rostock and Martin Heinze , SC Chemie Halle ,
• 1962, 1st place, F, We, in front of Münich, and Sadowsky, both Wismut Aue ,
• 1962, 1st place, GR, We, in front of Zinllgitt, SC Lokomotive Leipzig and Münich,
• 1963, 2nd place, F, We, behind Jürgen Wiechmann, SC Leipzig and in front of Heinze

swell

• Athletics magazine from 1952 to 1964
• One hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer Verlag , Niedernberg , 1991, page 239

Web links

• Profile of Alfred Tischendorf at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Alfred Tischendorf in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )