Fritz Gerdsmeier
Fritz Gerdsmeier (born April 28, 1962 in Aschaffenburg ) is a former German wrestler . He won seven German championship titles among seniors in the Greco-Roman style in heavy and super heavyweight.
Career
Fritz Gerdsmeier comes from a family of wrestlers from Aschaffenburg. His father Karl-Heinz Gerdsmeier was also a German wrestling champion, and brother Horst was a good middleweight wrestler. Fritz Gerdsmeier started wrestling at the age of 10. He was a member of SV Einigkeit Aschaffenburg -Damm throughout his career . He practiced the profession of a kaufm. Employees. With a height of 1.90 meters, he wrestled as an adult in the heavyweight division, the weight class that had its weight limit of 100 kg at the time. Towards the end of his career, however, he switched to the super heavyweight, for which he was actually too light at around 108 kg. He always wrestled in the Greco-Roman style.
In 1979 he took second place in the German A youth championship (age group up to 18 years of age) in the weight class up to 87 kg behind Rainer Weber from Nuremberg . In 1980 he was German youth champion in the same weight class before Gottfried Rampf from Hallbergmoos . In the junior division, he won the title at a German heavyweight championship in 1982.
As a junior, Fritz Gerdsmeier took part in the Junior World Championship (Juniors) in Colorado Springs in 1980 and took 3rd place in the weight class up to 87 kg, behind Csaba Majoros from Yugoslavia and Franz Marx from Austria . At the Junior European Championships (Espoirs) in Leipzig in 1982 he succeeded in defeating Ioan Grigoraş from Romania , but after defeats against Sabew, Bulgaria , and against Csaba Majoros, he ultimately remained unplaced.
Fritz Gerdsmeier was very successful in the German senior championships. In 1982 he had to be content with fourth place in the heavyweight division, but from 1983 to 1986 he won the German heavyweight championship title four times in a row and from 1988 to 1990 the super heavyweight division. Only in 1987 he had to be content with the vice-championship title in heavyweight behind Roland-Pawel Cwik.
From 1984 Fritz Gerdsmeier also represented the German colors at several international championships. His first start was at the European Championships in 1984 in Jönköping , where he finished 7th in the heavyweight division after defeating the Italian Antonio Lapenna . At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , he came in 6th place. In 1988 he took part in the Olympic Games in Seoul for a second time. He started there in the super heavyweight division, but could not do anything against the physically superior László Klauz from Hungary and Tomas Johansson from Sweden and remained unplaced.
After the Olympic Games in 1988 he ended his international wrestling career.
International success
| year | space | competition | Weight class | |
| 1980 | 3. | Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Colorado Springs | up to 87 kg body weight | behind Csaba Majoros ( Yugoslavia ) and Franz Marx ( Austria ) |
| 1982 | unpl. | Junior European Championship in Leipzig | Heavy | after a victory over Ioan Grigoraș ( Romania ) and defeats against Sabew ( Bulgaria ) and Csaba Majoros |
| 1983 | 5. | CISM military world championship in Villeurbanne / France | Heavy | behind Greg Gibson ( USA ), Kamel ( Egypt ), Panagiotis Pikilidis ( Greece ) and Sadaghini ( Iran ) |
| 1984 | 7th | EM in Jönköping | Heavy | with a victory over Antonio Lapenna ( Italy ) and defeats against Nikolai Balboschin ( USSR ) and Karl Gustavsson ( Sweden ) |
| 1984 | 6th | OS in Los Angeles | Heavy | after defeats against Josef Tertelj ( Yugoslavia ), Greg Gibson and Franz Pitschmann ( Austria ) |
| 1985 | 3. | Tournament in Västerås | Heavy | behind Thomas Horschel ( GDR ) and Guram Guduschauri (USSR), in front of Jank Möller (Sweden) and Marian Lukasik ( Poland ) |
| 1985 | 5. | Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg | Heavy | behind Guram Guduschauri and Leri Chabelowi (both USSR), Ivan Savin (Romania) and Miroslav Hulboj (FRG) |
| 1985 | 5. | Tournament in Bucharest | Heavy | behind Marian Lukasik and Ivan Savin |
| 1985 | 11. | EM in Leipzig | Heavy | after defeat against Thomas Horschel (GDR) and another wrestler |
| 1985 | unpl. | World Cup in Kolbotn | Heavy | against Anatol Fedarenka (USSR) and Andrei Dimitrov (Bulgaria) |
| 1986 | 5. | Grand Prix of the FRG in Freiburg | Heavy | behind Vasile Andrei (Romania), Uwe Neupert (GDR), Roman Bierła (Poland) and Thomas Horschel |
| 1987 | 7th | World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand | Super heavy | with a victory over Roelofs (Netherlands), a loss to Rangel Gerowski (Bulgaria), a bye, a loss to Igor Rostorozki (USSR) and a victory over Niels Steffensen (Denmark) |
| 1988 | 4th | ČSSR Grand Prix in Prague | Super heavy | behind Lubomir David (CSSR), Dan Payne ( Canada ) and Saur Tschadadze (USSR) |
| 1988 | unpl. | EM in Kolbotn | Super heavy | after defeats against Alexander Neumüller (Austria) and György Kekes (Hungary) |
| 1988 | unpl. | OS in Seoul | Super heavy | after defeats against László Klauz (Hungary) and Tomas Johansson (Sweden) |
German championships
| year | space | Age group | Weight class | Result |
| 1979 | 2. | Youth A | up to 87 kg body weight | behind Rainer Weber ( Nuremberg ) |
| 1980 | 1. | Youth A | up to 87 kg body weight | in front of Gottfried Rampf ( Hallbergmoos ) |
| 1980 | 5. | Juniors | Semi-difficult | Winner: Kai Staab ( AC Goldbach ) ahead of Rainer Weber |
| 1981 | 2. | Juniors | Semi-difficult | behind Rainer Weber, in front of Heinz Marnette ( Bad Reichenhall ) |
| 1982 | 4th | Seniors | Heavy | behind Hans-Günter Klein ( Witten ), Klaus Schneegans ( Elgershausen ) and Andreas Breid-Holzer ( Freiburg ) |
| 1982 | 1. | Juniors | Heavy | before Frank Kochanek ( Kollnau ) and Mike Gössner ( Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) |
| 1983 | 1. | Seniors | Heavy | before Martin Gutt ( Dortmund ) and Andreas Breid-Holzer |
| 1984 | 1. | Seniors | Heavy | before Gottfried Rampf ( Hallbergmoos ) and Klaus Schneegans |
| 1985 | 1. | Seniors | Heavy | in front of Gottfried Rampf and Klaus Schneegans |
| 1986 | 1. | Seniors | Heavy | in front of Günter Schmid ( Tuttlingen ) and Gerhard Himmel ( Aschaffenburg ) |
| 1987 | 2. | Seniors | Heavy | behind Roland-Pawel Cwik ( Aalen ) and in front of Raymund Edfelder (Bad Reichenhall) |
| 1988 | 1. | Seniors | Super heavy | before Hans-Günter Klein (Lünen) and Stefan Kaiser (Freiburg) |
| 1989 | 1. | Seniors | Super heavy | in front of Hans-Günter Klein and Darek Chiechanowski ( Bonn -Duisdorf) |
| 1990 | 1. | Seniors | Super heavy | before Raymund Edfelder and Peter Borutta (Goldbach) |
Note:
all competitions in Greco-Roman. Style
OS: Olympic Games
WM: World
Championship EM: European Championship
light
heavy weight: up to 90 kg heavy weight: up to 100
super heavy weight: up to 130 kg body weight
swell
- Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
- Trade journal Der Ringer
- A hundred years of wrestling in Germany. Published by the German Wrestling Association, Der Ringer publishing house , Niedernberg 1991
Web links
- Profile of Fritz Gerdsmeier at the Institute for Applied Training Science
- Fritz Gerdsmeier in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerdsmeier, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aschaffenburg |