Günter Maas

Günter Maas (born November 15, 1941 in Elm , Saarland ) is a former German wrestler . He was a seven-time German champion and Olympic participant.

Career

Günter Maas started wrestling at AC Elm at the age of 11 . He worked in both styles, the free and the Greco-Roman style. In the course of his career, in addition to AC Elm, he also wrestled for KSV Schwalbach , KSV Eppelborn , ASV Schifferstadt and for WKG Schwalbach / Schwarzenholz / Elm / Ensdorf .

Günter Maas, who took up the profession of teacher, was extremely easy. In the first years of his career he was still wrestling with flyweight, the weight class that reached up to 52 kg body weight. In those years he belonged to the top class in Saarland, but could not achieve any major successes at the national German level. The flyweight was mastered in the FRG by Paul Neff and Rolf Lacour . The only medal he won in a German championship until 1968 was that for 3rd place in the 1962 German junior championship in free style.

Günter Maas' time came in 1969 when paper weights were introduced that went up to 48 kg. In this weight class he won a total of seven German championship titles in both styles from 1969 to 1976. There is also a German team championship, which he won in 1971 with the ASV Schifferstadt team.

In 1969 he was used for the first time at an international championship, the European championship in Sofia . He came in 9th place in free style. At the 1971 World Cup, which also took place in Sofia, he defeated the Americans Wayne Homes and Ferenc Seres from Hungary in the Greco-Roman style , but lost to Stefan Angelow from Bulgaria and Rahim Aliabadi from Iran . He finished 7th in the final bill.

At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , he was again in the Greco-Roman. Style used. After a bye in the 1st round he lost to Rahim Aliabadi and Kazuhara Ishida from Japan and reached the 8th place.

The conclusion of his international wrestling career was the 10th place in the Greco-Roman. Style at the 1973 World Cup in Tehran . He won there over Karoly Kanczar from the United States and lost to Raimo Hirvonen from Finland and Ryszard Swierad from Poland .

Günter Maas achieved some nice successes in well-filled international tournaments. In 1970 he won the international US championship, in 1971 at the Klippan tournament in Sweden and in 1973 at the Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Moosburg an der Isar .

After his active time, Günter Maas worked for the Saarland Wrestling Association for many years as a trainer in the youth field.

International success

year	space	competition	style	Weight class
1969	9.	EM in Sofia	F.	paper	after defeats against Ognjan Nikolow , Bulgaria a . Marcel Micek, CSSR
1970	2.	Klippan tournament	GR	paper	behind Rolf Andersson, Sweden a . before Seger, Sweden
1970	1.	Intern. USA championship	GR	paper	before Kardy, Geller u. Vaughn, all USA
1971	1.	Klippan tournament	GR	paper	before Stanjek, Poland a. Kaprol, GDR
1971	7th	World Cup in Sofia	GR	paper	with victories over Wayne Holmes, USA a. Ferenc Seres , Hungary a . Defeats against Stefan Angelow , Bulgaria a. Rahim Aliabadi , Iran
1972	2.	Klippan tournament	GR	paper	behind Gheorghe Berceanu , Romania a . before Bernd Drechsel , GDR a. Stefan Angelow
1972	3.	Pre-Olympic tournament in Munich	GR	paper	behind Stoico Krastew, Bulgaria a. Bernhard Sczepanski, Poland
1972	8th.	OS in Munich	GR	paper	after defeats against Rahim Alidabadi u. Kazuhara Ishida, Japan
1973	1.	Grand Prix of the FRG in Moosburg on the Isar	GR	paper	before Christow, Bulgaria a. Ryszard Swierad , Poland
1973	10.	World Cup in Tehran	GR	paper	with a victory over Karoly Kanczar, USA a. Defeats against Raimo Hirvonen , Finland a . Ryszard Swierad

Note: OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style. GR = Greco-Roman style, paper weight up to 48 kg body weight

German championships

year	space	place	style	Weight class
1969	1.	Saarbrücken	GR	paper	before Mario Sabattini , Freiburg a . Erwin Drywa, Witten
1969	1.	Dortmund	F.	paper	before Erwin Drywa u. Armin Diepold, Munich
1970	1.	Freiburg	GR	paper	before Erwin Drywa u. Alfred Silberhorn, Tennenbronn
1970	1.	Schifferstadt	F.	paper	in front of Willi Heckmann , Schifferstadt u. Günter Hug, Ziegelhausen
1971	1.	Bad Reichenhall	GR	paper	before Wolfgang Fausel, Dewangen a . Fritz Schmidt, Elversberg
1972	1.	Tuttlingen	GR	paper	before Rolf Krauss , Ludwigshafen am Rhein a . Heinz Schmidt (wrestler) , Köllerbach
1976	1.	Aschaffenburg	GR	paper	before Heinz Schmieden, Mainz a. Günter Schenk

swell

• "Hundred Years of Wrestling in Germany", Ed. Deutscher Ringer-Bund, Verlag Der Ringer, Niedernberg, 1991,
• Yearbook 1972, published by Deutscher Ringerbund, Athletik-Verlag Karlsruhe, 1972,
• Trade magazines Athletik and Der Ringer,
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

• Günter Maas in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )