Andreas Steinbach
Andreas Steinbach (born July 7, 1965 in Dushanbe , Tajik SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former German wrestler .
Career
Andreas Steinbach, a Russian-German who came to West Germany from the Soviet Union in 1981, was a highly talented young wrestler who preferred the Greco-Roman style. Since he had already learned to wrestle in the Soviet Union, he quickly gained a foothold in Germany and joined the Lahr -Kuhbach wrestling club . In 1981 and 1982 he was German youth champion in the Greco-Roman style in the class up to 75 kg body weight. He also demonstrated his skills in the international arena, where he achieved excellent results from 1982 to 1985. In 1985 he was runner-up in the junior world championship.
Andreas Steinbach later switched to VfK Schifferstadt and was trained there by Frank Hartmann and national coach Lothar Ruch.
He made his debut at international senior championships in 1987 and initially finished seventh and tenth in the first competitions.
At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 he won four fights and led the Finn Harri Koskela 1-0 seven seconds before the end of the fight, but then had to accept a score from the Finn and lost the fight 1: 2. If he had won, he would have been group winner and would certainly have had the silver medal.
Andreas Steinbach won his first international medal at the 1989 European Light Heavyweight Championship in Oulu . In the fight for third place, he beat the Hungarian Péter Farkas , who later became two-time world champion and Olympic champion in 1992. In the fight for a place in the finals, Andreas Steinbach first won against the Soviet athlete Vladimir Popov with 4: 3 points, but on Russian protest this result was corrected to 5: 0 for Popov.
After German reunification in 1990, Andreas Steinbach got an unbeatable competitor in the light heavyweight division in the reigning 1989 world champion Maik Bullmann from Frankfurt (Oder) . He therefore had to switch to the heavyweight category (up to 100 kg body weight). Although he usually only weighed between 93 and 95 kg, he was also successful in this weight class. At the very first start in this weight class at the European Championships in Aschaffenburg , he won the silver medal and defeated the 1988 Olympic champion Andrzej Wroński from Poland . At the world championship of the same year in Varna he finished 8th.
At the European Championships in Copenhagen in 1992 , he won a bronze medal. In the fight for this medal he succeeded in a shoulder victory over the Bulgarian Olympic champion of 1988 in the light heavyweight Atanas Komchev from Bulgaria . At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona he met the world champions of the last two years, Héctor Milián from Cuba and Sjarhei Dzjamjaschkewitsch from Russia, and lost both times by just on points. In the further course of the tournament, he beat another former Olympic champion with Norbert Növényi from Hungary and finished fifth overall.
In 1993 and 1994 Andreas took a break from the international championships. After his comeback in 1995, however, he did not achieve any further successes. After he could not qualify for the 1996 Olympic Games, he finally ended his international wrestling career. Steinbach has been the trainer of the Lahr wrestling community since 2007.
The results of the major championships and tournaments in which Andreas Steinbach participated can be read in the following sections.
International success
(all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, middleweight, then up to 82 kg, light heavyweight, then up to 90 kg, heavyweight, then 100 kg body weight (KG))
year | space | competition | Weight class | |
1982 | 4th | Junior World Championships (Juniors) | up to 75 kg body weight | |
1983 | 2. | Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Oak Lawn / USA | up to 75 kg body weight | with wins over Knight, USA, Khachoscholi, Israel , Sergei Simin, USSR and one defeat against Ildim, Turkey |
1985 | 4th | Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Colorado Springs | medium | behind Mondy Amajew, USSR, Stefan Miroslawow, Bulgaria and Radosław Turkot, Poland |
1987 | 10. | EM in Tampere | Semi-difficult | with victory over Tom Sand, Norway and defeats against Ilie Matei , Romania , Atanas Komtschew , Bulgaria and Sören Claesson , Sweden |
1987 | 7th | World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand | Semi-difficult | with victories over Leitão Filho, Brazil and Bam, Yugoslavia and defeats against Vladimir Popov , USSR and Matei |
1988 | 10. | EM in Kolbotn / Norway | Semi-difficult | with victory over Klaus Mysen , Norway and defeats against Georgios Pikilidis, Greece , Harri Koskela , Finland and Iwajlo Jordanow , Bulgaria |
1988 | 5. | OS in Seoul | Semi-difficult | with victories over Charles Douglas Cox , Canada , Jean Yombi , Cameroon , Mike Foy , USA and Franz Pitschmann , Austria and defeats against Koskela, Popow and Komtschew |
1989 | 3. | EM in Oulu | Semi-difficult | with victories over Pikilidis, Johan Carlsson, Sweden and Péter Farkas , Hungary and one defeat against Popow |
1990 | 5. | EM in Poznan | Semi-difficult | with wins over Henri Meiss, France , Olaf Koschnitzke , GDR , Pikilidis and losses against Jordanow and Marek Kaszewski, Poland |
1991 | 2. | EM in Aschaffenburg | Heavy | with victories over Andrzej Wroński , Poland, Ilja Wassiliew, Bulgaria and Sándor Major , Hungary and one defeat against Sjarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch , USSR |
1991 | 8th. | World Cup in Varna | Heavy | with victories over Song Sung-Il, Korea and Kondo Trutomi, Japan and defeats against Héctor Milián , Cuba, Sjarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch and Dennis Koslowski , USA |
1992 | 3. | EM in Copenhagen | Heavy | with victories over Ion Ieremciuc , Romania , Dušan Masár , Poland and Atanas Komtschew and defeats to Miloš Govedarica, Yugoslavia (both wrestlers disqualified) and Andrzej Wroński |
1992 | 5. | OS in Barcelona | Heavy | with victories over Louis Sandoval , Panama , Govedarica and Norbert Növényi , Hungary and defeats against Héctor Milián and Sjarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch |
1995 | 9. | EM in Besançon | Heavy | with victory over Giuseppe Giunta, Italy and defeats against Georgi Saldadze , Ukraine and Taimuras Edishashvili, Russia |
1995 | 11. | World Cup in Prague | Heavy | with victories over Gagu Gogedidse, Georgia and John Ostendorp, USA and defeats against Héctor Milián and Nándor Gelenesi, Hungary |
1996 | 14th | EM in Budapest | Heavy | with victory over Alex Triantafilidis, Greece and defeats against Anatolij Kosulja , Ukraine and Gogodidze |
German championships
year | space | Weight class | Result |
1985 | 2. | medium | behind Jan Dolgowicz , Aalen and in front of Hans-Hermann Strauss , Aalen |
1987 | 1. | Semi-difficult | before Günter Tabel, Mülheim and Franz Seelos, Schifferstadt |
1988 | 1. | Semi-difficult | before Roger Gries , Mömbris -Königshofen and Franz Achter, Hallbergmoos |
1989 | 1. | Semi-difficult | before Rainer Weber, Nuremberg and Roger Gries |
1990 | 2. | Semi-difficult | behind Roger Gries and in front of Franz Achter |
1991 | 2. | Semi-difficult | behind Maik Bullmann , AC Goldbach and in front of Mario Trautmann, Lünen |
1992 | 2. | Heavy | behind Roger Gries and in front of Torsten Freitag, Goldbach |
1996 | 1. | Heavy | before Roger Gössner SV Germania Weingarten and Dirk Zimmermann, Eisenhüttenstadt |
swell
- Trade journal Der Ringer
- One hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer publishing house , Niedernberg , 1991, pages 202 u. 219
- Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
Web links
- Profile of Andreas Steinbach at the Institute for Applied Training Science
- Andreas Steinbach in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Steinbach, Andreas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German wrestler |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dushanbe , Soviet Union |