Eckhard Thorun

Eckhard Thorun (* 1938 ) is a former German wrestler .

Career

Eckhard Thorun comes from Stettin and started wrestling as a teenager in Warnemünde . Due to his success he was delegated to BSG Motor Warnemünde . Thorun, who had learned the metalworking trade, specialized in the Greco-Roman style after initially struggling in both styles. In 1956 he was GDR youth champion in the class up to 51 kg body weight. In his first year as a senior, he won 3rd place in the flyweight category at the GDR championship in 1957, behind E. Voigt from Wismut Aue and S. Debnar from SC Chemie Halle-Leuna . In 1958 he was the first GDR flyweight champion in Greco-Roman. Style. Eckhard Thorun then moved to SC Lokomotive Leipzig , which became SC Leipzig in 1963 .

The title of a GDR master in Greco-Roman. Eckhard Thorun won style a total of seven times in flyweight and bantamweight until 1967. But it was also used at international level and started for the first time in 1958 at the World Championships in Budapest in Greco-Roman. Style. As an internationally inexperienced wrestler, Thorun still had to learn the hard way and after two defeats came only 15th.

In 1960 Eckhard Thorun represented the colors of the GDR in the all-German Olympic elimination . However, he lost to the West German world class wrestlers Fritz Stange and Paul Neff and could not qualify for the games in Rome . The same thing happened to him in 1964, when he fought a draw in three tough fights against Fritz Stange in the first two fights and in the third, decisive fight, lost extremely close on points.

In 1963 Thorun came in at the world championship in Helsingborg with three wins and one defeat on a good 6th place and also at the European championship in 1966 in Essen he showed good performances and finished 5th.

After the end of his active wrestling career, Eckhard Thorun moved to Dessau, where he worked as a master locksmith and trained the youth in the local wrestling club.

successes

International success

(WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, GR = Greco-Roman style, Fl = flyweight, Ba = bantam weight, back then up to 52 kg or 57 kg body weight)

• 1958, 2nd place , "Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig , GR, Fl, behind Sergei Rybalko , USSR a . before Siegfried Rothert, GDR ;

• 1958, 15th place , World Cup in Budapest , GR, Fl, after defeats against Maurice Mewis , Belgium a . Dumitru Pârvulescu , Romania ;

• 1959, 1st place , tournament in Heusweiler , GR, Fl, before Erwin Trouvain , BRD a . Maurice Mewis;

• 1959, 1st place , tournament in Greiz , GR, Fl, before Lindstedt, Sweden a . Jensen, Denmark ;

• 1962, 1st place , "Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig, GR, Ba, ahead of G. Muck a. R. Zadenach, bde. DDR a. Georgi Markow , Bulgaria ;

• 1963, 6th place , World Championship in Helsingborg , GR, Ba, with victories over Robert Salles, France , Bernard Knitter , Poland a . Johnny Nielsen, Denmark a. a loss to János Varga , Hungary ;

• 1965, 2nd place , tournament in Klippan / Sweden, GR, Ba, behind Fritz Stange , FRG a. before Johnny Nielsen;

• 1966, 5th place , EM in Essen , Gr, Ba, with victories over Max Scaioli, Italy , Kent Jonsson, Sweden a. Ivan Kašpar, CSSR , a tie against Unver Besergil , Turkey a . a loss to Ion Baciu , Romania;

• 1967, 1st place , tournament in Klippan / Sweden, GR, Ba, ahead of Franz Temppes , FRG, Solskjaer, Norway and Spjuth, Sweden;

• 1968, 3rd place , tournament in Zella-Mehlis , GR, Ba, behind Christo Traikow , Bulgaria a. Hartmut Puls, GDR

All-German Olympic eliminations

• 1960, 3rd place, GR, Fl, behind Paul Neff , Schifferstadt u. Fritz Stange , Untertürkheim a . before Heinz Witt, Jena ;

• 1964, 2nd place, GR, Ba, behind Fritz Stange

GDR championships

• 1957, 3rd place, F, Fl, behind S. Voigt, BSG Wismut Aue u. S. Debnar, SC Chemie Halle-Leuna ,
• 1958, 1st place, GR, Fl, before Siegfried Rothert, SC DHfK Leipzig a . Heinz Witt, SC Motor Jena ,
• 1959, 1st place, GR, Fl, before Heinz Witt u. Hoffmannbeck, BSG Tractor Viernau ,
• 1960, 1st place, GR, Fl, before Heinz Witt u. Röll, BSG activist Zwickau ,
• 1963, 1st place, GR, Ba, before Bruck, BSG Wismut Aue u. Bitten, ASK Forward Rostock ,
• 1965, 1st place, GR, Ba, before Hartmut Puls , SG Dynamo Luckenwalde u. Wolfgang Radmacher , SC Leipzig ,
• 1966, 1st place, GR, Ba, before J. Weichert, SC Leipzig a. Hartmut Puls,
• 1967, 1st place, GR, Ba, before Reuss, SC Motor Zella-Mehlis u. Hartmut Puls,
• 1968, 2nd place, GR, Ba, behind Hartmut Puls u. in front of Rotkehl, SC Karl-Marx-Stadt

swell

• 1) "Athletik" magazine from 1956 to 1968,
• 2) "Hundred Years of Wrestling in Germany", Verlag "Der Ringer", Niedernberg, 1991

Web links

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