Benno Paulitz

Benno Paulitz (* 1951 in Potsdam ) is a former German wrestler .

Career

He started wrestling at Motor Babelsberg when he was 10 years old . Later he came to the children and youth sports school Luckenwalde and passed his Abitur there. From 1970 he was in the wrestling team of SG Dynamo Luckenwalde and trained there intensively with coach Wolfgang Brösicke. After becoming GDR youth and GDR junior champions several times, good placements at European and world championships were the reward for hard training. From 1976 he studied sports education at the DHfK Leipzig and at the Humboldt University in Berlin and passed his diplomas. From 1987 to 1990 he was an association trainer for youth and juniors in the wrestling association of the GDR. From 1993 to 2001 Benno Paulitz was national coach for the freestyle youngsters in the DRB . From 2001 to 2003 he was national coach for the men's freestyle in the DRB. Benno Paulitz now lives as a freelance health trainer for yoga, pilates, fitness and back school in Berlin.

International success

(WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = Freestyle, Wed = Middleweight)

• 1971, 2nd place , " Werner Seelenbinder " tournament in Berlin , F, Wed, behind Horst Stottmeister u. before Günter Spindler , bde. GDR ;
• 1973, 3rd place , European Championship in Lausanne , F, Wed, with victories over Shukri Ahmedow, Bulgaria , Georges Pahtas, Greece , András Deak, Hungary , undecided against Hayri Polat, Turkey and a point defeat against Vasily Sjulschin , USSR ;
• 1974, 2nd place , EM in Madrid , F, Wed, with victories over Keijo Manni, Finland , Alexander Senn, FRG, Petko Zaberski, Bulgaria, undecided against Vasile Iorga , Romania and one defeat against Viktor Novozhilov , USSR;
• 1974, 4th place , World Cup in Istanbul , F, Wed, with victories against Zezefsan, Iran, Morales, Spain , Tserendash, Mongolia , and defeats against Mehmet Uzun (wrestler) , Turkey and Iorga;
• 1975, 8th place , World Cup in Minsk , F, Wed, with victory over Tserendash and defeats against Ismail Abilow , Bulgaria and George Hicks, USA ;
• 1976, 7th place , EM in Leningrad , F, Wed, with victory over Arno Bem, Czechoslovakia and defeats against Uzun and Iorga.

GDR championships

Benno Paulitz was East German middleweight, freestyle champion in 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1975.

swell

• One hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer Verlag , Niedernberg, 1991, page 240
• Athletics magazine from 1970 to 1978
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976