Bernard Knitter

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Bernard Knitter versus Gilberto Gramellini, 1960

Bernard Knitter (born February 28, 1938 ) is a former Polish wrestler . He was a bronze medal winner at the 1965 World Championships .

Career

Bernard Knitter grew up in Gdansk and attended a technical college in Krakow , where he was trained as an engineer. In 1950 he began wrestling as a teenager in Gdansk. His first coach at Spójnia Gdańsk was Jan Majewicz. In the course of his career he also wrestled for the clubs Siła Mysłowice , Górnik Wesoła and Zagłębie Wałbrzych . In 1957 he was the first Polish flyweight champion in free style . In 1959 he switched to the Greco-Roman style and became Polish bantamweight champion in the same year.

In 1960 Bernard qualified for the Olympic Games in Rome . He got there up to the 5th round and after defeats against Gilberto Gramellini from Italy a . Ion Cernea from Romania took 7th place. From 1961 to 1964 he represented Poland at the World Championships in Yokohama , Toledo / USA and Helsingborg and the Olympic Games in Tokyo . He always started in the bantamweight division. He delivered a number of good fights, but could only take places between 5 (1961) and 11 (1964). In 1961 he defeated the Soviet top wrestler Vladlen Trostjanski on points as part of a city battle between Warsaw and Moscow .

In 1965 he achieved the greatest success of his career at the World Championships in Tampere . He deservedly won the bronze medal there, which he just missed at the 1966 World Championships in Toledo / USA with a 4th place.

Bernard Knitter completed his career with two starts at the European Championships in 1967 and 1968, where he started in featherweight. He then worked for "Górnik" Wesoła and "Zagłębie" Wałbrzych as a trainer.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = Freestyle, GR = Greco-Roman style, Ba = Bantamweight, Fe = featherweight, then up to 57 kg or 62 kg body weight)

  • 1959, 4th place , tournament in Split , GR, Ba, behind Imre Hódos , Hungary , Ion Cernea , Romania a . Sahrettin Özden, Turkey a . before Velkow, Bulgaria a . Klaus Scherer , FRG ;
  • 1960, 7th place , OS in Rome , GR, Ba, with victories over Imre Hódos u. Reimo Tuominen, Finland , a tie against Masamitsu Ichiguchi , Japan u. Losses against Gilberto Gramellini, Italy a . Ion cernea;
  • 1961, 5th place , World Championship in Yokohama , GR, Ba, with victories over Sahrettin Özden a. Masamitsu Ichiguchi et al. Defeats to Ion Cernea a. Oleg Karavaev , Soviet Union ;
  • 1962, 2nd place , "Wladislaus-Pytalinski" tournament in Warsaw , GR, Ba, behind Edvin Vesterby , Sweden ;
  • 1962, 7th place , World Championships in Toledo / USA , GR, Ba, with a victory over Michele Toma, Italy, a draw against Kamal Ali El Sayed, Egypt a . a loss to Masamitsu Ichiguchi;
  • 1963, 9th place , World Championship in Helsingborg , GR, Ba, with a draw against Johnny Nielsen, Denmark a . Defeats against Eckhard Thorun , GDR a . Kōji Sakurama , Japan;
  • 1964, 1st place , "Klippan" tournament in Klippan / Sweden, GR, Ba, before Korhonen, Sweden a. Fritz Stange , FRG;
  • 1964, 2nd place , "Iwan-Poddubny" tournament in Moscow , GR, Ba, behind Oleg Karawajew a. before Maltresow, both USSR;
  • 1964, 11th place , OS in Tokyo , GR, Ba, with a victory over Siavah Shafizadeh, Iran a . Defeats to Ion Cernea a. Vladlen Trostjanski , USSR;
  • 1965, 3rd place , World Championship in Tampere , GR, Ba, with victories over Johnny Nielsen, Tsvetko Paschkulew, Bulgaria a. Ilhan Topsakal, Turkey, a tie against Kōji Sakurama u. a loss to Ion Cernea;
  • 1966, 4th place , World Championships in Toledo / USA, GR, Ba, with victories over Charles Coffee, USA a. Heinrich Theuretzbacher, Austria a . Losses against Risto Björlin , Finland a. Kōji Sakurama;
  • 1967, 2nd place , "Wladislaus-Pytalinski" tournament in Warsaw, GR, Ba, behind Zakarjan, USSR a. in front of Pogorelow, USSR,
  • 1967, 7th place , EM in Minsk , GR, Fe, with victories over Svend Skrydstrup, Denmark a. Lothar Schneider , GDR a. Defeats against Serzhik Agamow , USSR a. Simion Popescu , Romania;
  • 1968, 11th place , EM in Västerås , GR, Fe, with a win over Öistein Davidsen, Norway , a draw against Leif Freij , Sweden u. a loss to Jiří Švec , Czechoslovakia

Polish championships

Bernard Knitter was Polish champion six times between 1957 and 1965, once in the free style and five times in the Greco-Roman style.

swell

  • 1) various issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1957 to 1968,
  • 2) Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA, 1976

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Knitter, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1938