Gerhard Weisenberger

Gerhard Weisenberger medal table
Wrestler
Germany
European Championship
bronze	1975 Ludwigshafen am Rhein	Light

Gerhard Weisenberger (born January 30, 1952 in Kleinostheim ) is a former German wrestler .

Career

Gerhard Berger manner began in 1963 at SC Siegfried Kleinostheim with the rings . He made very rapid progress under coach Klemens Schwab and was one of the best German youth wrestlers from 1967. In the youth sector he started in both styles (Greco-Roman and free style), as a senior only in free style. From 1967 to 1970 Gerhard Weisenberger was a total of six times German youth champion in both styles in the weight classes from 43 kg body weight (1967) to 60 kg body weight (1970). In 1971 he was also German junior champion in free style in featherweight before Alfons Keller from Hallbergmoos , after he had already become German vice junior champion in 1970 behind Emil Müller from Mainz in bantamweight.

In the senior class, Gerhard Weisenberger won his first German featherweight championship title in 1971 and his fourth lightweight in 1976. His international career began with a 5th place at the Junior World Championship (Juniors = up to the age of 18) in 1969 in Boulder / USA in free style in the class up to 60 kg body weight. He was also able to place well at the Junior World Championships in 1970 in Huskvarna as sixth and at the Junior European Championships in 1972 in Hvar as fifth.

Gerhard Weisenberger competed twice at the Olympic Games. In 1972 in Munich he started in featherweight and reached 8th place with two wins. In 1976 in Montreal he started in the lightweight, again achieved two victories, but ended up only in 12th place in the final accounts.

Gerhard Weisenberger has also competed at world and European championships several times. He achieved the greatest success of his career at the European Championships in 1975 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . There he won the European Championship bronze medal with three victories .

Gerhard Weisenberger, who meanwhile competed for SV Einigkeit Aschaffenburg-Damm and also for KSV Witten , ended his international wrestling career after 1976. The employee at the Aschaffenburger Stadtwerke remained loyal to wrestling as a trainer to this day. For many years he trained the wrestling team of AC Bavaria Goldbach and won the German team championship several times with this club in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He has also been the Hessian national coach for many years. His son Peter Weisenberger is one of the best freestyle wrestlers in Germany and was also a German senior champion.

International success

(all competitions in free style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, bantamweight, then up to 57 kg, featherweight, then up to 62 kg, lightweight, then up to 68 kg body weight (KG))

year	space	competition	Weight class
1969	5.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Boulder / USA	up to 56 kg body weight	behind Larry Morgan, USA , Lutidze, USSR , Atsuji Miyahara , Japan , and Sultan Jeliazkow, Bulgaria
1970	1.	Tournament in Rome	Bantam	before Stylianos Migiakis , Greece , and Petrucci, Italy
1970	6th	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Huskvarna	up to 60 kg body weight	behind Totcho Christow, Bulgaria, Dieter Illner, GDR , Andrei Suba, Romania , D. Kwalelaschwili, USSR, and Tommy Gustavsson, Sweden
1971	9.	World Cup in Sofia	feather	with victories over Med Salah Mahbrouk, Tunisia , and Zivko Nikolic, Yugoslavia , and defeats against Enju Todorow , Bulgaria, and Zagalav Abdulbekow , USSR
1972	4th	Tournament in Växjö	feather	behind Karl-Heinz Stahr , GDR, Necati Mustafa and Kenneth Karlsson, both Swedes
1972	5.	Junior European Championship (Espoirs) in Hvar	Class up to 65 kg	behind Claudiu Zanier, Romania, Iwan Sacharow, USSR, Spas Iwanow, Bulgaria, and Paolini, Italy, and in front of Wieczorek, GDR
1972	15th	EM in Katowice	feather	after defeats against Helmut Strumpf , GDR, and Rustam Iliew, Bulgaria
1972	8th.	OS in Munich	feather	with victories over Stanislav Tuma, Czechoslovakia , and Ahmad Djan, Afghanistan , and defeats to Joseph Burge, Guatemala , and José Ramos , Cuba
1973	1.	Tournament in Poznań	Light	before Bonew, Bulgaria, and Furmaniak, Poland
1974	2.	"Fritz-Stöckli" memorial tournament in Bülach / Switzerland	Light	behind Wassiljew, Bulgaria, and in front of Hans Zbinden, Switzerland
1974	3.	Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Freiburg im Breisgau	Light	behind Abdollah Hadjiahmad, Iran , and Sultan Jeliazkow and in front of Hermann Lohr , FRG
1974	2.	EU Championship in Glasgow	Light	behind Joseph Gilligan, United Kingdom , and in front of Bergenbosch, Netherlands
1974	3.	CISM Military World Cup in Rome	Light	behind Taheri, Iran, and Gian-Matteo Ranzi , Italy
1975	3.	EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein	Light	with victories over Dariusz Cwikowski, Poland, Miroslav Musil, Czechoslovakia , and Sileno Effori, Italy, and defeats against Mehmet Sari , Turkey , and Ihaki Gaidarbekow , USSR
1976	2.	Grand Prix of the FRG in Freiburg	Light	behind Eberhard Probst , GDR, and in front of Gerold Brauer , GDR, Gerhard Sattel , FRG, and Hans Zbinden
1976	12.	OS in Montreal	Light	with victories over Joseph Gilligan and Kari Övermark , Finland , and defeats against Mohammad-Reza Navai, Iran, and Lloyd Keaser , USA

German championships

year	space	Age group	style	Weight class	Result
1967	1.	Youth A	F.	up to 43 kg body weight	before Anton Abele, Dewangen , and Robert Angele, Aalen
1968	1.	Youth A	GR	up to 48 kg body weight	before Paul Schneider , Köllerbach , and Peter Lutterer, Schopfheim
1969	1.	Youth A	F.	up to 56 kg body weight	before Werner Schauder, Bruchsal , and Hans Schluttenhofer, Freising
1969	1.	Youth A	GR	up to 56 kg body weight	before Günter Diener, Altenkessel , and Manfred Zimmermann, Walsum
1970	1.	Youth A	GR	up to 60 kg body weight	before Klaus Hübner, Villingen , and Gilbert Eckstein, Hüttigweiler
1970	1.	Youth A	F.	up to 60 kg body weight	before Reinhard vd Does, Viernheim , and Wolfgang Hausner, Dortmund
1970	2.	Juniors	F.	Bantam	behind Emil Müller , Mainz , and in front of Wilhelm Barie, Dettingen
1971	1.	Juniors	F.	feather	in front of Alfons Keller, Hallbergmoos , and Toni Luig, Köllerbach
1971	1.	Seniors	F.	feather	in front of Alfons Keller and Detlef Schmengler, Efferen
1972	1.	Juniors	F.	Light	before Rudolf Ganserich, Dortmund, and Herbert Hettich, Vörstetten
1972	1.	Seniors	F.	feather	before Bernd Fleig , AV Freiburg-St.Georgen , and Wolfgang Zelaskowski, Hamburg
1973	3.	Seniors	F.	Light	behind Klaus Rost , KSV Witten , and Werner Hettich , AV Freiburg-St.Georgen
1974	2.	Seniors	F.	Light	behind Hermann Lohr , Efferen, and in front of Klaus Huebner, Triberg
1975	1.	Seniors	F.	Light	before Gerhard Sattel , VfK Schifferstadt , and Klaus Hübner
1976	1.	Seniors	F.	Light	before Hermann Lohr, ASV Mainz 88, and Herbert Sutter, Hausen-Zell

swell

• Professional magazines athletics from 1967 to 1975 a. The wrestler from 1976,
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of FILA , 1976, pages E-80, E-108, O-88, 0-105 u. W-97,
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig ,
• One hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer Verlag , Niedernberg , 1991, page 205.
• 1972 yearbook of the German Wrestling Association , Athletik -Verlag, Karlsruhe , 1972, pages 203, 204, 214, 215, 216 u. 217
• Website sport-komplett.de

Web link

Profile of Gerhard Weisenberger at the Institute for Applied Training Science