Eduard Giray

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Eduard Giray (born February 13, 1949 in Konstanz ; † August 24, 2014 ) was a German wrestler and European runner-up in 1979 in free style in featherweight.

German national team wrestling 1978 (Eduard Giray in the front row, center)

Career

Eduard Giray began wrestling as a teenager in Wollmatingen . In 1967 Giray became German youth champion in free style in the class up to 52 kg body weight. Two years earlier, at the age of 16, he had already taken third place at the German Youth Championships. Giray soon played a good role among senior citizens in the Federal Republic of Germany . So in 1971, meanwhile for the AV Freiburg-St. Starting Georgen , he took 2nd place in bantamweight at the German free style championship behind Emil Müller from Mainz and in 1972 he won his first German free style bantamweight title, which was followed by eight more DM titles.

Giray made his debut at international championships at the 1972 European Championships in Katowice in bantamweight. He managed a win and ended up in 9th place. At the Olympic Games of the same year in Munich he was not yet used. After he had to learn the hard way at the 1973 European Championships in Lausanne , he showed rising form at the World Championships in the same year and came in 5th. The draw that he scored against multiple Soviet world champion Vladimir Jumin was remarkable .

At the 1974 World Cup in Istanbul , Giray won three fights, including the fight against the Soviet representative Batal-Muchamed Gadschijew and narrowly missed a medal due to a narrow point defeat against the Turkish silver medalist from the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich Vehbi Akdağ .

In 1975 Giray paused internationally. In preparation for the 1976 Olympic Games, Giray took anabolic steroids , as he freely reported in Current Sports Studio. From 1976 to 1979 he achieved a number of excellent placements at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and at several World and European Championships. He won over world class wrestlers like Ilpo Seppälä from Finland , Helmut Strumpf from the GDR , Vehbi Akdağ and Nussetin Kurt from Turkey , Kazimierz Lipień from Poland , Seydullah Absaidow from the Soviet Union and Zoltán Szanlontai from Hungary .

The European Championships in Bucharest in 1979 were the highlight of his career . Giray won five fights here so confidently that none of his opponents managed to wrest a single technical rating from him. his fight and victory against the one year later Olympic champion Absaidow was de facto the early fight for the gold medal. He only lost this because he was unable to compete against the third finalist Dukov due to a concussion.

After he had to experience in 1980 that the Federal Republic of Germany did not send athletes to the Olympic Games in Moscow for political reasons , Eduard Giray, who was an administrative employee by profession, resigned. He died on August 24, 2014 at the age of 65 from a heart attack he suffered while on a bicycle tour.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, Ba = bantam weight, Fe = featherweight, at that time up to 57 kg or 62 kg body weight)

  • 1972, 2nd place , tournament in Växjö / Sweden , F, Ba, behind Horst Mayer , GDR and in front of Jan Mojzis, CSSR ;
  • 1972, 9th place , EM in Katowice , F, Ba, with a victory over Peter Schädler, Switzerland and defeats against André Gaudinot, France and Zbigniew Żedzicki , Poland ;
  • 1973, 1st place , tournament in Posen , F, Ba, ahead of Sikorski and Wojciechowski, bde. Poland;
  • 1973, 11th place , EM in Lausanne , F, Ba, after defeats against Petre Ciarnău , Romania and Amrik Singh Gill, Great Britain ;
  • 1973, 5th place , World Cup in Tehran , F, Ba, with victories over Sahin Bak, Turkey and Allah Ditta, Pakistan , a draw against Vladimir Jumin , USSR and a defeat against Donald Behm , USA ;
  • 1974, 1st place , EC championship in Glasgow , F, Fe, ahead of Fichera, Italy and Mc Aree, Great Britain;
  • 1974, 4th place , World Cup in Istanbul , F, Fe, with victories over Mourad Boudjame, Algeria , Stephen Peniroglu, Australia and Batal-Muchamed Gadschijew , USSR and defeats against Doucho Zekow , Bulgaria and Vehbi Akdağ, Turkey;
  • 1975, 1st place , tournament in Clermont-Ferrand , F, Fe, ahead of Lartsew, USSR and Theodule Toulotte , France ;
  • 1975, 3rd place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Freiburg im Breisgau , F, Fe, behind Mohammad Navai and Mohsen Farahvashi , bde. Iran and before Osman Yilmaz, Turkey and Martin Knosp , FRG;
  • 1976, 3rd place , “Werner-Seelenbibder” tournament in Dresden , F, Fe, behind Zbigniew Zedzicki and Helmut Strumpf , GDR;
  • 1976, 5th place , EM in Leningrad , F, Fe, with victories over Zygmont Kudelski, Poland and Ilpo Seppälä , Finland and defeats against Petre Coman , Romania and Lutz Eichelmann, GDR;
  • 1976, 8th place , OS in Montreal , F, Fe, with victories over Mihály Fodor, Hungary and Kenneth Dawes, Great Britain and defeats to Gene Davis , USA and Yang Jung-Mo , North Korea ;
  • 1977, 2nd place , tournament in Clermont-Ferrand, F, Fe, behind Nedialkow, Bulgaria and in front of Georges Ballery, France;
  • 1977, 2nd place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Freiburg, F, Fe, behind Helmut Strumpf and in front of Tadeusz Lucygo, Poland;
  • 1977, 7th place , EM in Bursa , F, Fe, with victories over Viliam Hönsch, CSSR and Nussetin Kurt , Turkey and defeats against Miho Dukow , Bulgaria and Vladimir Jumin;
  • 1977, 5th place , World Championships in Lausanne, F, Fe, with victories over Miguel González, Spain and Franco Piroddu, Italy and defeats against Moshen Faravashi and Miho Dukow;
  • 1978, 5th place , EM in Sofia , F, Fe, with victories over Helmut Strumpf and Vehbi Akdağ and defeats against Seydullah Absaidow , USSR and Zoltan Szalontai , Hungary;
  • 1978, 7th place , World Cup in Mexico City , F, Fe, with victories over Norio Yamazaki, Japan and Eduard Mordehew, Israel and defeats against Vladimir Jumin and Yang Jung-Mo;
  • 1979, 2nd place , EM in Bucharest , F, Fe, with victories over Georgios Hatzioannidis, Greece , Zoltán Szalontai, Seydullah Absaidow, Anghel Gigel, Romania and Jan Szimansky. Giray defeated the later Olympic champion Absaidow superior. The actual final battle was already decided in the preliminary round. In the second final fight against the Bulgarian Dukov Giray could not compete because of a head injury against the Bulgarian Dukov, which Dukov became European Champion. Giray won the silver medal without losing.
  • 1979, 6th place , World Championships in San Diego , F, Fe, with victories over John Park, Canada and Kazimierz Lipień , Poland and defeats against Zoltán Szalontai and Andre Metzger , USA

German championships

Eduard Giray won his 10th German championship title with the ASV Schorndorf team , which became German team champions in 1975.

swell

  • various issues of the specialist magazines Athletik from 1965 to 1975 and “Der Ringer” from 1976 to 1980.
  • A hundred years of wrestling in Germany. Verlag Der Ringer , Niedernberg 1991, pp. 179, 224, 225 u. 226.
  • International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Current sports studio March 26, 1977 Word protocol cycling4fans.de
  2. ^ Andreas Singler, Gerhard Treutlein: Doping in top sport. Sports science analyzes of national and international performance development. ISBN 978-3-89899-192-6 , p. 168.
  3. ↑ Bernd Fleig: The SBRV mourns Eduard Giray. ( Memento from August 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Obituary on the homepage of the South Baden Wrestling Association from August 26, 2014; Südkurier obituary on August 30, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Giray, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 2014