Eckhard Schulz

Eckhard Schulz (back) becomes GDR champion in 1963

Eckhard Schulz (* 1940 ) is a former German wrestler .

Career

Eckhard Schulz was a member of the ASK Vorwärts Rostock . The trained lathe operator developed into one of the best German wrestlers in the Greco-Roman style in lightweight around 1960 . Among the seniors, he first drew attention to himself at the GDR championships in 1962, when he was GDR lightweight champion before Klaus Pohl . He also won this title in 1963 and 1967.

But Eckhard Schulz only came to international championships in 1963, where he took an excellent 4th place at the world championships in Helsingborg and thus just missed a medal. In 1964 he fought as a representative of the GDR in the all-German Olympic elimination for the games in Tokyo in the lightweight against the Aschaffenburg Franz Schmitt . Both athletes fought three rousing battles, which were perfectly even and therefore ended "draws" three times. According to the regulations agreed between the associations, the scales had to determine the winner. The lighter one was Franz Schmitt, who received the ticket to Tokyo with it. For Eckhard Schulz these were certainly the bitterest hours of his wrestling life.

In the next few years, Eckhard Schulz was replaced by Klaus Pohl in terms of performance in the GDR. He therefore ended his wrestling career in 1968.

International success

(WM = World Championship, all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, Le = lightweight, then up to 70 kg body weight)

year	space	competition	Weight class
1962	1.	"Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig	Light	before Klaus Pohl , GDR a. Spas Penew , Bulgaria
1963	4th	World Cup in Helsingborg	Light	with victories over Karamfil Modew, Bulgaria, Yukihari Akiyama, Japan a . Svend Skrydstrup, Denmark , a tie against Rune Johnsson, Sweden u. Defeats against Dawid Gwandseladze , USSR a . Klaus Rost , FRG
1963	2.	"Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig	Light	behind Klaus Pohl, GDR a. before Gods, GDR
1964	1.	Intern. Tournament in Gelenau	Light	before Lothar Schneider u. Butcher, bde. GDR
1965	1.	"Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig	Light	before gods u. Henkel, bde. DDR a. Boldiew, USSR
1967	3.	"Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Moscow	Light	behind Wladimir Novochatko , USSR a. Antal Steer , Hungary a . before David Gwandseladse u. Anatoly Fedorenko, bde. USSR

International battles

year	encounter	style	Weight class	Result
1960	GDR against Sweden	GR	Light	draw against Andersson
1963	Sweden against GDR	GR	Light	Points winner over Rune Johnsson

GDR championships

year	space	competition	style	Weight class
1962	1.	GR	Light	before Klaus Pohl , SG Dynamo Luckenwalde u. Stiller, SC Motor Zella-Mehlis
1963	1.	GR	Light	in front of Gotter, SC Leipzig a . Klaus Pohl
1964	2.	GR	Light	behind Klaus Pohl u. before Heinz Henkel, SC Motor Zella-Mehlis
1965	3.	GR	Light	behind Klaus Pohl u. Adolf Franke , SC Leipzig
1967	1.	GR	Light	before Klaus Pohl u. Klaus-Peter Göpfert , SC Motor Zella-Mehlis

swell

• 1) Div. Issues of the professional magazines Athletik (BRD) u. Heavy athletics (GDR) from 1960 to 1967,
• 2) Website "www.sport-komplett.de"

Web links

• Profile of Eckhard Schulz at the Institute for Applied Training Science