Hans-Heinrich Egeberg

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Hans-Heinrich Egeberg (born April 26, 1877 in Copenhagen , † unknown) was a Danish wrestler . In the early days of modern wrestling, he was twice world and five times European heavyweight champion in the Greco-Roman style.

Career

Hans-Heinrich Egeberg was one of the first wrestlers in modern wrestling, who represented the absolute best in the world. He wrestled for the Hermod Copenhagen club and, as was customary at the time, only in the Greco-Roman style. With a body weight of around 100 kg, he always wrestled in the heavyweight division. At the beginning of his career, in 1901 he became Danish champion for the first time, there was still no weight class division in most competitions. In 1902 he was again Danish champion and started for the first time in an international championship, which at that time all had an unofficial character, the European championship in The Hague . This championship was held without division into weight classes and Hans-Heinrich Egeberg won on January 4, 1902 in front of the two Dutchmen J. Koelink and A. Kok. This made him only the second European champion after Georg Hackenschmidt from Russia in 1898.

In 1903 an unofficial European championship took place in Rotterdam . Hans-Heinrich Egeberg was shouldered there in the final battle by Gustav Frištenský from Bohemia and took 2nd place behind this.

From 1904 to 1906, Hans-Heinrich Egeberg stayed in the United States, where he competed in professional competitions. After his return in 1907 he was reamateurised.

In 1907 he became world champion in the weight class over 85 kg body weight for the first time in Frankfurt am Main in front of the German all-rounder Heinrich Rondi , who not only wrestled but also shone as a weightlifter and was Olympic champion in the tug of war in 1906 .

In 1908, Hans-Heinrich Egeberg also became world champion in Vienna . It took him six victories to beat the Austrians Josef Rossum and Josef Panzer. At the 1909 World Championships in Vienna, he came in second place behind Anton Schmitz from Austria . In addition to the defeat against Schmitz, he celebrated five wins at this world championship.

In 1909, Hans-Heinrich Egeberg was also European heavyweight champion at two different events . In Malmö he won ahead of the Swedes Alfred Lindblad and Gustaf Malmqvist and in Dresden he won ahead of the Germans Paul Wätzig and Josef Lehner.

The last international championship he played was the 1910 European Championship in Budapest . There he succeeded in the fight for the title, the revenge against Anton Schmitz for the defeat at the World Cup in 1909 in Vienna. Josef Bechyne from Bohemia , Josef Rossum and Tibor Fischer from Hungary took the other places.

Hans-Heinrich Egeberg could not win the Olympic laurel. He was not in any of the Olympic Games, which took place from 1900 to 1912 and in which his participation would have been possible, at the start.

International success

(WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style)

Danish championships

Hans-Heinrich Egeberg became a Danish master in 1901, 1902 and 1909. In 1908 he took 2nd place.

swell

  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA , 1976, pages W-3, W-4 and E-1, E-3, E-4 and E-5,
  • The modern wrestling match by A. v. Guretzki, Verlag von FW Gloeckner & Co., Leipzig, 1922, page 106,
  • Website "www.iat.uni-leipzig.de",
  • Website "www.sports-references.com"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Review - That was going on in sport ...", Sport-Bild from December 31, 1996

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Egeberg, Hans-Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH after 1910