Dietmar Hinz

Dietmar Hinz (born March 14, 1953 in Loitz ) is a former German wrestler . He won a bronze medal in the Greco-Roman style in the paper weight at the European Championships in 1978 .

Career

Dietmar Hinz started wrestling as a teenager in Demmin and later became a member of SG Dynamo Luckenwalde . At a height of 1.62 meters, he was relatively large for a paper weight (weight limit 48 kg body weight). He wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style. He achieved his first notable successes in 1971 when he took second place behind his club colleague Zander in the GDR youth championship in the weight class up to 44 kg body weight. In the same year he started in the GDR championship for seniors and took fourth place in paper weight.

In 1973 Dietmar Hinz was the first time GDR paper weight champion. He won this title a total of six times, but in 1976 and 1977 in flyweight.

In 1972 he was used for the first time at international championships. He came here at the Junior European Championship in Hvar in the paper weight behind Nicu Gângă from Romania , Arsen Milew and Kiaz Akhmedov from Bulgaria in fourth place. At the 1974 European Championships in Madrid , Dietmar Hinz started for the first time in an international senior championship. He came in seventh place with a victory over Heinz Schmieden from the Federal Republic of Germany . At the world championship this year in Katowice he lost to European champions Constantin Alexandru from Romania and Georgi Georgiev from Bulgaria and only finished eleventh.

In the following years he started regularly at the international championships until 1979 and was often able to place in the front field. For example, he came fifth at the 1975 European Championships in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, fourth at the 1976 European Championships in Leningrad and fifth at the 1978 World Championships in Mexico City .

Dietmar Hinz also started at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and, after a bye in the first round, won points over Lee In-chang from South Korea and Salih Bora from Turkey . In the fourth round he lost to the 1972 Olympic champion Gheorghe Berceanu , for which he was charged with four missing points. Together with the two missing points from his won fights, this resulted in six missing points that forced him to retire. With one missing point less, he would have come into the medalist category.

Dietmar Hinz achieved the best result at an international championship at the 1978 European championship in Sofia . He came in the paper weight with wins over Odegaard, Norway , Kalle Tegelberg, Sweden and Jozsef Santha , Hungary and defeats against Todor Gontschew , Bulgaria , Constantin Alexandru and Anatoli Bosin , USSR , in third place and thus won an EM bronze medal .

After the 1979 season, Dietmar Hinz ended his international wrestling career. At the national level, however, it continued until the mid-1980s.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1972	4th	Junior European Championship in Hvar	paper	behind Nicu Gângă , Romania , Arsen Milew and Kiaz Akhmedow, bde. Bulgaria
1973	4th	"Dynamo" Spartakiad	paper	behind Ion Gibu, Romania, Shishkov, USSR and Kolew, Bulgaria
1974	3.	Klippan tournament	paper	behind Alexei Schumakow , USSR and Constantin Alexandru , Romania
1974	7th	EM in Madrid	paper	with a victory over Heinz Schmieden, FRG and defeats against Stefan Angelow , Bulgaria and Ferenc Seres , Hungary
1974	3.	"Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Rostock	paper	behind Constantin Alexandru and Tscheraitschw, USSR
1974	11.	World Cup in Katowice	paper	after defeats by Constantin Alexandru and Georgi Georgiev , Bulgaria
1975	2.	Tournament in Västerås	paper	behind Kalle Tegelberg, Sweden , in front of Reijo Haaparanta, Finland
1975	5.	EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein	paper	with a victory over Martin Svaty, ČSSR and defeats against Pawel Christow , Bulgaria and Alexei Schumakow , USSR
1975	3.	"Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig	paper	behind Constantin Alexandru and Stefan Angelow , Bulgaria
1975	7th	World Cup in Minsk	paper	with a win over Khalil Rashid-Mohammadzadeh, Iran and defeats against Salih Bora , Turkey and Isida Kasuharu, Japan
1976	2.	Klippan tournament	paper	behind Pawel Christow , in front of Wieslaw Kucinski , Poland
1976	4th	EM in Leningrad	paper	with a win over Janusz Kosinski, Poland and defeats to Ferenc Seres and Alexei Schumakow
1976	6th	Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg	paper	behind Constantin Alexandru , Wladimir Subkow , USSR, Jürgen Kleer , FRG, Alexander Zajaczkowski, Poland and Heinz Schmieden
1976	5.	OS in Montreal	paper	with wins over Lee In-chang, South Korea and Salih Bora , and one loss against Gheorghe Berceanu , Romania
1977	7th	World Cup in Bursa	paper	after losing to Salih Bora and Anatoli Bosin , USSR
1978	2.	Klippan tournament	paper	behind Anatoli Bosin, in front of Leszek Majkowski, Poland
1978	3.	EM in Sofia	paper	with victories over Odegaard, Norway , Kalle Tegelberg and Jozsef Santha , Hungary and defeats to Todor Gontschew, Bulgaria, Constantin Alexandru and Anatoli Bosin
1978	5.	World Cup in Mexico City	paper	with a victory over Alfredo Olvera, Mexico a . Defeats against Todor Gonchev a. Constantin Alexandru
1979	7th	EM in Bucharest	paper	after defeats against Roman Kierpacz , Poland a. Jozsef Santha

GDR championships

year	space	Weight class	Result
1971	4th	paper	behind Bernd Drechsel u. HG Schäfer, bde. SC Motor Zella-Mehlis u. Winfrid Kaprol, ASK Forward Rostock
1973	1.	paper	in front of Deffke, ASK forward Rostock u. Freund, BSG Traktor Taucha
1974	1.	paper	in front of Seifert, Zentronik Sömmerda u. Kruse, ASK Forward Frankfurt
1975	1.	paper	in front of Seifert, SC Motor Jena u. Scholz, BSG Motor Artern
1976	1.	To fly	in front of Kohlhaus, SC Motor Zella-Mehlis u. Ettinghausen, BSG Motor Artern
1977	1.	To fly	in front of Lutschek, BSG Motor Viernau u. Uwe Baumann, ASK Forward Frankfurt
1978	2.	paper	behind Seifert, SC Motor Zella-Mehlis, in front of Scholz, BSG Motor Artern
1979	1.	paper	before Uwe Baumann u. Müller, bde. SC Motor Zella-Mehlis
1984	2.	paper	behind Andreas Klektiven, SC Motor Zella-Mehlis, in front of Müller, SG Dynamo Luckenwalde

Note: all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, paper weight, then up to 48 kg, flyweight, then up to 52 kg body weight

swell

• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976,
• Website "www.sport-komplett.de",
• "Hundred Years of Wrestling in Germany" , published by the German Wrestling Association, Der Ringer Verlag , Niedernberg, 1991,
• Trade magazines Athletik and Der Ringer

Web links

• Profile of Dietmar Hinz at the Institute for Applied Training Science