Erwin Trouvain

Erwin Trouvain (born February 20, 1940 in Saarbrücken , † 1982 Heusweiler ) was a German wrestler .

Career

Erwin Trouvain was the son of the machine operator Alois Trouvain. He started wrestling as a teenager at KSV Heusweiler . As was common at the time, he wrestled in both styles, the free and the Greco-Roman style. In 1957 he became German youth champion in free style in Hamburg in the weight class up to 52 kg body weight and made the transition to the German top class as early as 1958 by winning the German championship title in the Greco-Roman style and the runner-up title in the free style, both in flyweight with the seniors. He therefore also moved to KSV Köllerbach , a top German team.

At the end of the 1950s he was used by the German Heavy Athletics Association in some international tournaments, where he consistently performed well. The jump to the Olympic Games or World Championships, no European championships were held in his time, but he never made it because the competition in the Federal Republic of Germany with Paul Neff , Fritz Stange , Rolf Lacour and Karl Dodrimont was too strong.

After all, after 1958 he managed to become German champion in free style in bantamweight again in 1962 before Franz Temppes from Schorndorf .

International success

(GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style, Fl = fly weight, Ba = bantam weight, at that time up to 52 kg or 57 kg body weight)

• 1958, 3rd place, tournament in Udine , GR, Fl, behind Ignazio Fabra , Italy and Borivoje Vukov , Yugoslavia ;
• 1959, 2nd place , tournament in Savona , GR, Fl, behind Ignazio Fabra and in front of Karakalais, Turkey and Tatas, France ;
• 1959, 2nd place , tournament in Heusweiler, GR, Fl, behind Eckhard Thorun , GDR and in front of Maurice Mewis , Belgium ;
• 1959, 4th place , tournament in Split , GR, Fl, behind Dursun Ali Egribas , Turkey, Hajduk, Poland and Borivoj Vukov and in front of Moskow, Bulgaria and Armais Sajadow , USSR

German championships

• 1957, 2nd place, GR, Fl, behind Klaus Scherer , Heusweiler and in front of Siegfried Wagner, Kornwestheim ,
• 1958, 1st place, GR, Fl, ahead of Paul Neff , Schifferstadt and Walter Idler, Stuttgart-Münster ,
• 1958, 2nd place, F, Fl, behind Paul Neff and in front of Siegfried Betz, Stuttgart-Plieningen ,
• 1959, 2nd place, F, Ba, behind Klaus Scherer and in front of Rudi Schreer, ASV Heros Dortmund ,
• 1962, 2nd place, Gr, Ba, behind Fritz Stange , Untertürkheim and in front of Bruno Steinmetz, Mainz ,
• 1962, 1st place, F, Ba, ahead of Franz Temppes , Schorndorf and Erhard Seitz, Viernheim ,
• 1963, 2nd place, F, Ba, behind Karl Dodrimont , Baienfurt and in front of Fritz Stange

swell

• various issues of the professional journal Athletik from 1957 to 1963
• 1972 yearbook of the German Wrestling Federation, "Athletik" publishing house Karlsruhe, 1972
• Documentation "Hundred Years of Wrestling in Germany", publisher of the German Wrestling Association, Athletik-Verlag, Karlsruhe, 1992, pages 203, 210, 211, 223 u. 224