Freddy Scherer

Freddy Scherer (born January 12, 1960 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a former German wrestler .

Career

Freddy Scherer is the oldest of three brothers (Freddy, Bernd and Markus Scherer) who grew up in Ludwigshafen on the Rhine and started wrestling there in the late 1960s. Your first trainer was Walter Gehring, a nephew of Justin Gehring , who formed a number of young wrestlers from the Ludwigshafen area into world-class wrestlers in those years. Freddy was one of the best wrestlers in Germany in each age group from an early age. So in 1972 he became German student master (age group up to 14 years of age) in the class up to 25 kg body weight in the Greco-Roman style, the style that he exclusively wrestled. In 1976, 1977 and 1978 he was German youth champion and in 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1980 German junior champion in paper weight (up to 48 kg body weight). In 1979, 1980, 1982 and 1988 Freddy was also the German senior paperweight champion.

Since 1978 Freddy started with good success at international championships. He, who was a technically brilliant wrestler, had to struggle with the fact that after 1980 his brothers Bernd and Markus had also matured into world-class athletes and how he could only achieve international success in paper weight (up to 48 kg body weight). Since all three also only wrestled in the Greco-Roman style, they made practical competition with one another. Even if one of them switched to the flyweight (up to 52 kg body weight), there was still “one too many on board”.

The best results that Freddy achieved at international level were winning the 1979 World Youth Championship in Colorado Springs , in which, of course, no wrestlers from the Eastern Bloc countries were involved, as well as a good 4th place at the 1980 European Championships in Prievidza , and two sixths Places at the European Championships in 1982 in Varna and in 1988 in Kolbotn / Norway. His greatest individual successes were victories over the later Olympic champion Vincente Maenza from Italy and the later multiple world champion Konstantin Alexandru from Romania .

Freddy belonged to KSG Ludwigshafen at the beginning of his wrestling career, but then moved to KSV Wiesental, where he also contributed to winning the German team championship in 1985.

International success

(all competitions in Greco-Roman style, WM = world championship, EM = European championship, paper weight (also known as light flyweight), at that time up to 48 kg, flyweight, then 52 kg body weight)

year	space	competition	Weight class
1978	1.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Colorado Springs	paper	before Gose, USA , and Montfort, Netherlands
1978	1.	Championship of the EC countries in Arnhem	paper	in front of Vincenzo Maenza , Italy
1978	6th	Junior European Championship (Juniors) in Oulu	paper	behind Totio Andonow , Bulgaria , Timor Taimuras Kasarasaschwili, USSR , Roman Kierpacz , Poland , Vaclav Janota, Czechoslovakia , and Giuseppe Caltabiano , Italy
1979	2.	Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Haparanda	paper	behind Timor Taimuras Kasarasaschwili , and in front of Uwe Baumann, GDR , Kanteo Kyllönen, Finland , and Ikuzo Saito, Japan
1979	7th	EM in Bucharest	paper	after losing to Anatoly Bosin , USSR, and Salih Bora , Turkey
1980	1.	Championship of the EC countries in Sønderborg	paper	before Ronny Persson, Sweden , Thierry Bourdin , France , and John van dem Bosch, Netherlands
1980	4th	EM in Bucharest	paper	with victories over Vincenzo Maenza and Constantin Alexandru , Romania, and defeats against Roman Kierpacz and Totio Andonow
1981	7th	World Cup in Oslo	paper	with a win over Abdulkarim Kakakaji, Iran , and losses to Salih Bora and Fumikazu Sasaki , Japan
1982	2.	Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Freiburg im Breisgau	paper	behind Wassili Anikin, USSR, and in front of Bernd Scherer , FRG
1982	6th	EM in Varna	paper	behind Wassili Anikin, Csaba Vadász , Hungary, Totio Andonow , Jon Rønningen , Norway , and Salih Bora
1988	6th	EM in Kolbotn / Norway	paper	with a win over Georgios Nikitas, Greece , and losses to Lars Rønningen , Norway, and Fuat Yildiz , Turkey

German championships

year	space	Weight class	Result
1978	3.	paper	behind Hans Eglseer, Bad Reichenhall , and Jürgen Kleer , Köllerbach
1979	1.	paper	before Jürgen Kleer and Walter Wölfelschneider, Obernburg
1980	1.	paper	before Bernd Scherer , Wiesental , and Christoph Hellmann, Köllerbach
1982	1.	paper	before Markus Scherer , Wiesental, and Volker Eller, Mülheim an der Ruhr - Styrum
1984	2.	paper	behind Bernd Scherer and in front of Ingo Kohler, TuS Adelhausen
1985	2.	paper	behind Bernd Scherer and in front of Roger Press, Freiburg-Haslach
1986	2.	paper	behind Rosario Schmitt, Schifferstadt, and in front of Mario Lauer, Lahr -Kuhbach
1988	1.	paper	in front of Frank Heinzelbecker, KSV Sulzbach, and Bodo Englert, Aschaffenburg-Damm

swell

• various issues of the journal Der Ringer from 1972 to 1988,
• International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig

Web links

• Profile of Freddy Scherer at the Institute for Applied Training Science