Gregory Ruth

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Gregory Ruth (born May 20, 1939 in Bethlehem , Pennsylvania ) is an American wrestler . He won a bronze medal at the 1963 Sofia Free Style World Championships lightweight.

Career

Gregory Ruth grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He began at the high school with the rings and attended from 1958, the University of Oklahoma , where he received a trainer Tommy Evans of the soon-American US it into the elite of the freestyle wrestlers led lightweight. He participated in the NCAA Division I Collegiate Championships (= US student championship) from 1959. Gregory Ruth also started for the New York Atletic Club and failed in 1960 in the US Olympic Trials for the Olympic Games in Rome in the semifinals to Shelby Wilson .

Gregory Ruth took 4th place in the USA championship of the AAU (Amateur Athletes Union) in 1962 in the lightweight division, but surprisingly was able to prevail in the qualification for the world championship in Toledo / USA . In Toledo he wrestled in the lightweight and fought for a good 5th place there. After two victories, the absolute world class wrestlers Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran from Iran and Enju Waltschew-Dimow from Bulgaria were too strong for him. But he came against both of the time and only lost on points.

In 1963, Gregory Ruth was nominated for the Pan American Games in São Paulo . He won there in the lightweight ahead of Jose Azzari from Guatemala and the twin brother of Hans Böse Kurt Böse who emigrated from Bremen to Canada in the 1950s .

Gregory Ruth also competed in the 1963 World Cup in Sofia . He won the bronze medal in the lightweight there. He suffered defeats against Mahmut Atalay from Turkey and Iwao Horiuchi from Japan .

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, Gregory Ruth first celebrated three point wins, for each of which he was burdened with a missing point. In the 4th round he lost again to Iwao Horiuchi and had to retire because he had scored six missing points. If he had only managed one shoulder win in his three victories, if he had been able to intervene in the battle for the medals, he would only have the ungrateful 4th place.

After Tokyo, Gregory Ruth did not start at any international championships. At the national level, however, he achieved two great successes when he won the NCAA Division I Collegiate Championships in 1965 in the welterweight division and in 1966 in the lightweight division.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, Le = lightweight, then up to 70 kg body weight, We = welter weight, then up to 78 kg body weight)

National successes

(AAU = Amateur Athletes Union of the USA, NCAA = American Student Sports Association)

  • 1962, 4th place, AAU-Champ., F, Le, behind Kazuo Abe , Japan, Mike Rodriguez u. Jim Burke ,
  • 1963, 1st place, AAU-Champ., F, Le, before Bill Weick, Werner Holzer u. Mike Rodriguez,
  • 1964, 1st place, AAU-Champ., F, Le, ahead of Jim Burke, Mamoru Shimizu, Japan a. Gerry Grenier,
  • 1965, 1st place, NCAA-Champ., F, We, before Vic Marcucci u. John Carr,
  • 1966, 1st place, NCAA Champ., F, Le, ahead of Len Kauffman u. Vic Marcucci,
  • 1967, 2nd place, AAU-Champ., F, We, behind Pat Kelly u. before Ed De Witt u. Steve Combs

swell

  • Athletics magazine from 1962 to 1964,
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig ,
  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of FILA , 1976, pages O-70, W-44 u. W-51,
  • AAU website - statistics section,
  • NCAA website statistics section

Web links

Profile of Gregory Ruth at the Institute for Applied Exercise Science

personal data
SURNAME Ruth, Gregory
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Bethlehem, Pennsylvania