Andre Metzger

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Andre Metzger (* 1960 ) is a former American wrestler . He was vice world champion in 1986 in Budapest and two-time Pan-American champion in free style in featherweight and lightweight.

Career

Metzger is from Michigan . He began wrestling as a teenager in high school and was extremely successful as early as 1976 in the juniors at the USA Championships of the AAU (Amateur Athletes Union). At the beginning of his career he wrestled in both styles, the Greco-Roman and the free. Later he concentrated fully on the free style. In 1976, 1977 and 1977 he was American junior champion in Greco-Roman style and 1977 and 1978 in free style. In 1979, 1984, 1986 and 1987 he won the USA championship in free style in featherweight and lightweight among seniors.

From 1979, Metzger studied at the University of Oklahoma and was also part of the wrestling team at this university. In the same year he started for the first time at the NCAA Division I Collegiate Championships, which has a high status in the USA and finished fifth in the free style in featherweight. In the subsequent qualification for the senior world championships, he surprisingly prevailed at the age of 19 and started at the featherweight championship in Budapest . Andre showed excellent fights in Budapest and reached the final together with Micho Dukow from Bulgaria and Vladimir Jumin from the Soviet Union . In the final, these three wrestlers defeated each other, with Metzger winning over Micho Dukow. In the final, he came third because he had the most missing points from the preliminary fights, which he won all.

1979 Metzger won the Pan American Championships in San Juan , Puerto Rico , in featherweight before Raúl Cascaret Fonseca from Cuba , an absolute world class man.

In qualifying for the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , Andre Metzger took second place and was designated as a substitute. But since the United States boycotted these games, he could not go to Moscow.

In 1981 Metzger had grown into the lightweight and lost in the World Cup elimination against Andrew Rein . In 1982 he was back at the World Cup. In Edmonton , he just missed the medal ranks in the lightweight with a fourth place. In 1983 he could not prevail at the national level against his strong competitors James Humphrey , Andrew Rein and Nate Carr and did not come to an international championship. In 1985 he started again at the World Championships in Budapest . He did not make it into the top six wrestlers there. Its exact placement is not even recorded in the journal Der Ringer .

From 1986 he worked a lot with David Schultz and John Du Pont . He now belonged to the New York Athletic Club and from 1987 to the Foxcatcher Wrestling Club of Du Pont. He was able to improve his performance again and fought for the starting place for the 1986 World Cup in Budapest . After excellent performance, he won the silver medal there . Against world champion Arsen Fadsayev , who was perhaps the best freestyle wrestler in the world at the time, he could not do anything and clearly lost.

In 1987 Metzger in Indianapolis won the lightweight title again at the Pan American Games and also won a medal at the World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand with third place in the lightweight behind Arsen Fadsajew and Georgios Athanasiadis from Greece .

He could not qualify for participation in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and 1988 in Seoul. He lost to Andrew Rein in the trials in 1984 and Nate Carr in 1988.

He then ended his wrestling career and became a coach at Villanova University.

successes

international

  • 1979, 1st place , intern. Junior tournament in Joliet , F, Le, in front of Wesinger u. Porter, bde. United States
  • 1980, 2nd place , World Cup in Toledo / USA, F, Le, behind Wiktor Alexejew , USSR a. before Egon Beiler, Canada a. Koji Sato, Japan ;
  • 1986, 2nd place , World Cup in Toledo / USA, F, Le, behind Arsen Fadsajew u. before Eugenio Montero, Bujandelgeriin Bold , Mongolia a. Zsigmond Kelevitz, Australia ;
  • 1987, 1st place , Pan-American Games in Indianapolis , F, Le, before Eugenio Montero a. Pat Sullivan, Canada;
  • 1988, 2nd place , World Cup in Toledo / USA, F, Le, behind Abdulla Magomedow , USSR a. before Eugenio Montero

national

  • 1976, 1st place, AAU Junior Champ., GR, Ba,
  • 1977, 1st place, AAU Junior Champ., GR, Le,
  • 1977, 1st place, AAU Junior Champ., F, Le,
  • 1978, 1st place, AAU Junior Champ., GR, Le,
  • 1978, 1st place, AAU-Junior-Champ., F, Le,
  • 1979, 1st place, AAU-Champ., F, Fe, before Keith Mourlan u. Taga Tsuneo,
  • 1979, 5th place, NCAA Champ., F, Le, behind Dan Hicks , Scott Trizzino, Mike Mathis u. Lee Roy Smith et al. in front of Andrew Rein ,
  • 1980, 2nd place, AAU-Champ., F, Le, behind James Humphrey u. in front of Scott Trizzino,
  • 1980, 2nd place, NCAA Champ., F, Le,
  • 1981, 1st place, NCAA-Champ., F, Le, before Lenny Zalesky u. Dave Brown,
  • 1982, 2nd place, AAU-Champ., F, Le, behind Andrew Rein u. before Bill Nugent
  • 1982, 1st place, NCAA.Champ., F, Le,
  • 1984, 1st place, AAU-Champ., F, Le,
  • 1986, 1st place, AAU-Champ., F, Le,
  • 1987, 1st place, AAU-Champ., F, Le

Erl .: WM = world championship, F = free style, GR = Greco-Roman. Style, Fe = feather weight, Le = lightweight, back then up to 62/63 kg or 68/70 kg body weight

swell

  • Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 5/1979, page 10, 9/1979, page 10, 5/1981, page 13, 9/1982, page 5, 11/1986, pages 9/10, 9/1987, pages 9 / 10
  • Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
  • NCAA website - stiatrics section
  • AAU website - statistical section
  • National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum website

(Note: The information on the USA championships on the website of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame and the AAU differ when it comes to the championships in Greco-Roman style. Therefore, the results from the statistics section of the AAU were used )

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Butcher, Andre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH 1960