Chris Rinke

Chris Rinke (* 26. October 1960 ) is a former Canadian wrestler and winner of the bronze medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles in free style middleweight.

Career

Chris Rinke started wrestling as a teenager in high school in 1976. From 1979 he attended Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Burnaby , British Columbia , where he developed into an excellent freestyle wrestler. In 1982 he won the Middleweight Commonwealth Games in Brisbane and a year later he took 3rd place in the Middleweight Pan American Games in Caracas . That year he was also the winner of the North American Student Championship (NAIA) in the middleweight division.

However, his first participation in a world championship in 1983 was not accompanied by any great success. In Kiev he only came in 15th place in the middleweight division without a win. His increase in 1984 was all the more remarkable. At the Olympic Games in Los Angeles , which, however, was boycotted by most of the Eastern Bloc countries, from which the majority of wrestlers dominated the world at the time, he won the bronze medal with four victories . His victory in the fight for this medal over Reiner Trik from the Federal Republic of Germany , who was considered the favorite, was clear with 5: 2 points.

However, against Mark Schultz from the United States , who became Olympic champion , Chris Rinke had no chance.

After the 1984 Olympic Games, Chris celebrated a great success in 1986 when he won the middleweight division at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh .

After the end of his active career, Chris Rinke took up a position as assistant coach and later as head coach at his home university.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, We = welterweight, Mi = middleweight, then up to 74 kg or 82 kg body weight)

• 1979, 3rd place , Pan American Junior Championships in Monterrey , F, We, behind Lazaro C. Ruiz, Cuba and Todd Sumpter, USA a . before Jorge Luis Rocha, Mexico a . Dimas Ochoa, Venezuela ;
• 1982, 3rd place , World Cup in Toledo / USA, F, Wed, behind Mark Schultz , USA a. Vagab Kasibekow , USSR a . in front of Beak Hyung-Myong, South Korea a . Kally Agogo, Nigeria ;
• 1982, 1st place , Commonwealth Games in Brisbane , F, Wed, ahead of Wally Koenig, Australia a . Jai Parkash Kangar, India a . Steven Kurpas, England ;
• 1983, 3rd place , Pan American Games in Caracas , F, Wed, behind Jose Damian, Cuba a. Evalio de Jesus Suarez, Venezuela;
• 1983, 15th place , World Cup in Kiev , F, Wed, winner: Taimuras Dzgojew , USSR ahead of Dzewegiin Düwtschin , Mongolia a . Efraim Kamberow , Bulgaria ;
• 1984, 1st place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Freiburg im Breisgau , F; Wed, before Peter Syring , GDR , A, Suchanow, USSR, Dieter Otto u. Wolfgang Otto, bde. FRG;
• 1984, bronze medal , OS in Los Angeles , F, Wed, with victories over Steven Kurpas, Ortelli, Italy , Kenneth Reinsfield, New Zealand a . Reiner Trik , Germany a . a loss to Mark Schultz, USA,
• 1984, 4th place , World Cup in Toledo / USA, F, Wed, behind Christopher Campbell , USA, Vesko Manow, Bulgaria a . Wladimir Modossian , USSR a. before Mohamed Elashram, Egypt a . Jose Damian;
• 1985, 2nd place , "Memorial-Roger-Coulon" in Clermont-Ferrand , F, Wed, behind Josef Lohyna , CSSR a . before Alexander Tambowtschew, USSR, Leszek Ciota , Poland , Peter Franz , GDR a . Marian Stancio, France ;
• 1986, 1st place , Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh , F, Wed, in front of Wally Koenig u. Anthony Bell, England ;
• 1990, 5th place , World Cup in Toledo / USA, F, Wed, behind Juri Worobiew , USSR, Necmi Gençalp , Turkey, Melvin Douglas u. Orlando Hernandez

swell

• 1) Div. Issues of the journal Der Ringer from 1979 to 1990,
• 2) International Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

Profile of Chris Rinke at the Institute for Applied Training Science