David Schultz (wrestler)

David "Dave" Schultz (born June 6, 1959 in Palo Alto , California , † January 26, 1996 in Newtown Square , Pennsylvania ) was an American wrestler .

Career

Like most American wrestlers, David Schultz began his career in high school. After high school in Palo Alto, he attended universities in Oklahoma and won several NCAA championships here. In 1977 his international success began with a victory at the Pan American Championships. He achieved his first successes in the Greco-Roman style, later he switched to the free style. His greatest successes were the 1984 Olympic gold medal in Los Angeles and the 1983 World Cup in Kiev . He also won five other World Cup medals. He also played many international tournaments with strong players, some of which he won, for example in 1984 and 1991 in Tbilisi , 1985 in Tokyo , 1983, 1990 and 1991 in Paris and Clermont-Ferrand and at the 1986 Goodwill Games.

His brother Mark Schultz was also a very successful middleweight wrestler and Olympic champion in 1984 (up to 82 kg body weight).

David Schultz already worked as an active wrestler as a trainer at Stanford University , the University of Oklahoma and the University of Wisconsin . In 1995/96 he was the coach of the private wrestling team "Foxcatcher Squad" in Newtown Square, which was sponsored by the multi-millionaire John E. du Pont . Du Pont shot Schultz on January 26, 1996 out of an argument. David Schultz left his wife and two children and was buried in Ashland , Oregon . The events surrounding the incident were filmed in the 2014 drama Foxcatcher . Actor Mark Ruffalo took on the role of David Schultz .

For his services to wrestling , David Schultz was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame in August 2016 .

successes

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, We = welterweight, then up to 74 kg body weight, Wed = middleweight, then up to 82 kg body weight, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = freestyle)

• 1977, 1st place , Pan American Championships, GR;
• 1982, 3rd place , World Championships in Edmonton / Canada , F, We, behind Taimuras Dzgojew , USSR and Efraim Kamberow, Bulgaria and in front of Akira Ota, Japan and Leszek Ciota, Poland ;
• 1983, 1st place , World Championships in Kiev , F, We, ahead of Taram Magomadow, USSR and Martin Knosp , Germany ;
• 1984, gold medal , OS in Los Angeles , F, We; with victories over Rauhala, Finland , Coleman, New Zealand , Salas, Columbia , Sejdi, Yugoslavia , Myung Moo, South Korea and Martin Knosp;
• 1985, 2nd place , World Championships in Budapest , F, We, behind Raul Cascaret Fonseca , Cuba and in front of Luuzangiin Ehkhbayar, Mongolia and Vadim Bzugoutow, USSR;
• 1986, 3rd place , World Championships in Budapest, F, We, behind Raul Cascaret Fonseca and Adlan Varaew , USSR and in front of Ehkhbayar;
• 1987, 1st place , Panamerican Games in Indianapolis , F, We, ahead of Raul Cascaret Fonseca and Gary Holmes, Canada;
• 1987, 2nd place , World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand , F, We, behind Adlan Varaew and in front of Uwe Westendorf, GDR , Yoon Kyung-Jae, South Korea and Raul Cascaret;
• 1993, 2nd place , World Championship in Toronto , F, We, behind Jong Soon-Park, South Korea and in front of Alberto Rodriguez, Cuba, Turan Ceylan, Turkey and Andre Backhaus , Germany ;
• 1994, 7th place , World Cup in Istanbul , F, We, behind Turan Ceylan, Viktor Peikow, Moldova , Yavi Behva, Iran , Alberto Rodriguez, Nasir Gadichanow, Russia and Tukuya Ota, Japan;
• 1995, 3rd place , Panamerican Games in Mar del Plata , F, We, behind Alberto Rodriguez and David Hohl, Canada;
• 1995, 5th place , World Cup in Atlanta , F, We, behind Buwaissar Saitijew , Russia , Alexander Leipold , Germany, Alberto Rodriguez and Christoph Feyer, Switzerland

National successes

• USA champion in Greco-Roman style 1977 and 1982 in light and welterweight,
• USA champion in freestyle: 1981, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1994 and 1995 in the world and middleweight division,
• NCAA (American University Sports Association) Masters Division I all American 1978, 1981 and 1982

literature

• Tim Huddleston: Wrestling With Madness: John Eleuthere Du Pont and the Foxcatcher Farm Murder. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4826-4396-1
• Mark Schultz : Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold. Dutton Adult, 2014, ISBN 978-0-525-95503-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ United World Wrestling to Induct 15 into 2016 Hall of Fame Class , accessed April 17, 2017 (English)

Web links

• Profile of David Schultz at the Institute for Applied Training Science

swell

• 1) International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig
• 2) Various issues of the specialist magazine "Der Ringer" from 1975 to 1996