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 )