Günther Maritschnigg

Günther Maritschnigg medal table
Wrestler
Germany
Olympic games
silver	1960 Rome	Welter

Günther Maritschnigg (born November 7, 1933 in Bochum ; † January 22, 2013 ) was a German wrestler and silver medalist at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome .

Career

Günther Maritschnigg began as a teenager during strength sports club Brambauer with the rings . The trained machine fitter later switched to the strength sports club Westerfilde and then to the Bundesliga club Sportunion Witten - Annen . Günther wrestled mainly in the Greco-Roman style. He was a late starter who won his first and only German welterweight championship in 1959 at the age of 26. A short but successful international wrestling career followed, which resulted in winning the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 in the welterweight, Greco-Roman. Style culminated. For these games Günther had won the all-German Olympic team by winning the elimination tournaments before Alfred Tischendorf from Jena u. Werner Hoppe from Köllerbach qualified.

For winning the silver medal, he was awarded the silver laurel leaf by the Federal President on December 9, 1960.

In Rome he showed excellent fights and deservedly won the silver medal with five victories. In the final, however , he had no chance of winning against Mithat Bayrak from Turkey , who later switched to Maritschnigg's local rival, KSV Witten 07 .

Günther Maritschnigg competed in both styles at the 1961 World Cup in Yokohama . While he came in 7th place in the free style in welterweight, he reached a good fifth place in the Greco-Roman style.

From 1962 Günther Maritschnigg was ousted from the top position in welterweight in Germany by Georg Utz from Kornwestheim and Peter Nettekoven from Duisdorf .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style, We = welterweight, Mi = middleweight)

• 1960, silver medal , OS in Rome , GR, We, with victories over Sachihiko Takeda, Japan , Hicham Ido, Lebanon , Fritz Fivian, USA , Matti Laakso , Finland a . René Schiermeyer , France a . Defeats against Kiril Petkow, Bulgaria a . Mithat Bayrak , Turkey ;

• 1961, 1st place , tournament in Salzburg , GR, We, before Antal Rizmayer , Hungary a . Stevan Horvat , Yugoslavia ;

• 1961, 7th place , World Cup in Yokohama , F, We, with a draw against Mahmut Atalay , Turkey a. Defeats to Yutaka Kaneko , Japan a . Mihail Bekmurzow , USSR ;

• 1961, 5th place , World Cup in Yokohama, GR, We, with a draw against Jaan Roots , USSR a. a loss to Stevan Horvat

Most important international battles

• 1959, FRG against Sweden , GR, We, point winner over Ake Karlsson,
• 1960, France against FRG, points winner over René Schiermeyer,
• 1960, USSR against FRG, GR, We, point defeat against David Gwandzeladze ,
• 1960, USSR against FRG, GR, We, point defeat against Jaan Roots,
• 1961, FRG against USSR, GR, We, point defeat against David Gwandzeladze,
• 1961, FRG against USSR, GR, We, point defeat against Jaan Roots,
• 1963, FRG against Denmark , GR, W, draw against Bjarne Ansbol,
• 1965, FRG against USSR, GR, Wed, point defeat against Anatoly Kirov

German championships

• 1959, 1st place, GR, We, ahead of Rolf Ellerbrock , Dortmund a . Werner Bodamer , Kirchheim,
• 1961, 2nd place, GR, We, behind Otto Schmittner , Aschaffenburg a . before Siegfried Mangold, Botnang,
• 1965, 2nd place, GR, We, behind Peter Nettekoven , Duisdorf u. Anton Erne, Baienfurt

literature

• Athletics. Years 1959 to 1965.
• International Wrestling Database. Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig.
• A hundred years of wrestling in Germany. Der Ringer, Niedernberg 1991, p. 189 and p. 216.
• Obituary in the Ruhr Nachrichten , local edition Witten, February 16, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Information given to the Bundestag by the Federal Government on September 29, 1973 - Printed matter 7/1040 - Appendix 3, pages 54 ff., Here page 55