Andrew Rein

Andrew Rein (born March 11, 1958 in Stoughton , Wisconsin ) is a retired American wrestler . He won the silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics in a free style lightweight.

Career

Andrew Rein grew up in Stoughton, Wisconsin , and attended high school there, where he also began wrestling. He specialized in the free style. In 1975 and 1976 he achieved his former major successes when he was champion of Wisconsin in the bantam and featherweight . From 1978 he attended the University of Wisconsin – Madison . Andrew Rein studied Agricultural Economics at this university. He later graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree.

At this university he also continued wrestling and had one of the best US coaches in Duane Kleven. In 1979 he finished 6th in the NCAA Division I Collegiate Championships (= US student championship) in the lightweight category , but a year later he won this lightweight championship. Before that, he had also become Midland Champion.

Andrew Rein also started at the USA Championships of the AAU (Amateur Athletes Union). After a 5th place in 1980, he became the USA lightweight champion in 1981 and 1982. In those years in the United States, Andrew Rein had to deal with James Humphrey , Andre Metzger and Nate Carr for the starting positions at the international championships. These four wrestlers were pretty much on par, as evidenced by the fact that they all came to international appearances in the 1980s and all of them won medals in the Olympic Games and World Championships.

Andrew Rein's international career began at the 1979 Pan American Games in San Juan , Puerto Rico . He won the lightweight before the strong Cuban wrestler José Ramos and the Canadian Egon Beiler . In 1981 he was also used at the World Championships in Skopje . He was able to convince there with five wins, but did not win a medal because he lost in the pool final against Saipulla Absaidow from the USSR and in the battle for the bronze medal was also narrowly inferior to the Bulgarian Kamen Penew .

In 1984 Andrew Rein fought for the right to start against Andre Metzger and Nate Carr in the Olympic Trials . In Los Angeles he fought his way up to the final in the lightweight, but was defeated there by the South Korean You In-Tak , whom he had previously defeated several times on other occasions and therefore had to win the silver medal , which is still a great success for him was to be satisfied.

After a 2nd place at an international tournament in Tokyo 1985, which was given the grandiose title of "World Super Championships" by the Japanese organizers, but was a normal invitation tournament without world championship rank , Andrew Rein finished behind the outstanding Soviet athlete Arsen Fadsayev his international wrestling career.

He already worked for Procter & Gamble during his wrestling career, but has been head coach at the University of Wisconsin for freestyle wrestling since 1986.

successes

international

• 1979, 1st place , Pan-American Championship in San Juan , Puerto Rico , F, Le, ahead of José Ramos , Cuba a . Egon Beiler , Canada ;

• 1981, 4th place , World Championship in Skopje , F, Le, with victories over Raúl Cascaret Fonseca , Cuba , Rene Nayer, Switzerland , Makakuru Kaminura, Japan , Zoltan Szalontai , Hungary a . You In-Tak , South Korea u. Defeats against Saipulla Absaidow , USSR a . Kamen Penew , Bulgaria ;

• 1982, 2nd place , World Cup in Toledo (Ohio) , F, Le, behind Michail Tscharatschura , USSR a. before Joe Dell'Acquila, Canada a. You in-tak;

• 1983, 1st place , tournament in Tbilisi , F, Le;

• 1984, silver medal , OS in Los Angeles , F, Le, with victories over Georgios Athanasiadis , Greece , Rene Nayer, Zsigmond Kelevitz, Australia a . Jukka Rauhala , Finland a . a loss to You In-Tak;

• 1985, 2nd place , World Cuper Championships (unofficial) in Tokyo , F, Le, behind Arsen Fadsajew , USSR and before Yoshihiko Hara, Japan;

national

• 1978, 2nd place, NCAA Champ., F, Le, behind Dan Hicks u. before Scot Trizzino,
• 1979, 6th place, F. Le, behind Dan Hicks, Scott Trizzino, Mike Mathis, Lee Roy Smith u. Andre Metzger
• 1980, 1st place, NCAA Champ., F, Le,
• 1980, 5th place, AAU-Champ., F, Le, behind James Humphrey , Andre Metzger , Scott Trizzano u. Doug Parise,
• 1981, 1st place, AAU-Champ., F, Le, ahead of Lewis Sonderoth, Tihamer Toth-Fejel u. Davis Frozen,
• 1982, 1st place, AAU-Chamo., F, Le, before Andre Metzger, Bill Nugent u. Lewis Sonderoth

(Erl .: OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, Le = lightweight, at that time up to 68 kg body weight)

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 10/1981, page 6 u. 9/1984, pages 12/13
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
• Wisconsin Wrestling Coaches Association website

Web links

• Profile of Andrew Rein at the Institute for Applied Exercise Science
• Andrew Rein in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Andrew Rein in the Hall of Fame for the Wisconsin Wrestling Coaches Association