Hartmut Reich

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Hartmut Reich in preparation for the 1982 World Cup

Hartmut Reich (born May 7, 1956 in Apolda ) is a former German wrestler , world and European champion in free style in flyweight.

Career

Hartmut Reich grew up in Apolda and started wrestling there in 1964. His first trainer was Benno Fritsche. Hartmut later switched to the Motor Jena sports club and was mainly looked after by Joachim Raupach.

In 1974 Hartmut Reich took 2nd place in the GDR flyweight championship behind his then dominant club colleague Jürgen Möbius . In 1976, Reich was first GDR champion in flyweight in the free style, the style that he only wrestled. In 1976 he was used for the first time at an international championship, the European championship in Leningrad . Reich celebrated his debut there by winning the bronze flyweight medal. Because of an injury, Hartmut could not be sent to the Olympic Games in Montreal by the GDR Association .

Hartmut Reich was there again at the 1977 European Championships in Bursa , Turkey , where he celebrated his first major international success. He became European flyweight champion with four wins . Reich also held up very well at the World Championships in Lausanne that same year . He got five wins. Only against the Poland Władysław Stecyk and the outstanding 1976 Olympic champion Yūji Takada from Japan, he lost and won the bronze medal.

In 1978 Hartmut Reich narrowly missed a medal at the European Championships in Oslo , but was runner- up at the World Championships in Mexico City . He achieved a sensational victory over the Olympic and three-time world champion Yuji Takada.

1979 was also a very successful year for Reich. He was in Bucharest with four victories vice European champion, where he only had to admit defeat to the Soviet newcomer Yarugi Schagajew. At the World Championships in San Diego he won the bronze medal that year. He lost the revenge against Yoji Takada and also against the American James Haines .

At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , Reich was not in good shape, only won one fight and ended up in 8th place. For this he celebrated great successes again in 1981 and 1982. First he became European champion again in Łódź in 1981 and vice world champion in Skopje and then he even became world champion in Edmonton in 1982 . This was the greatest success in Hartmut Reich's career. During these years he a. Victories over Valentin Jordanow from Bulgaria , Yarugi Schagajew, Osman Efandiew from the USSR and Wladyslaw Stecyk from Poland.

After 1982 Hartmut Reich did not win any medals at the international championships. But he reached the ungrateful 4th place four times. He was unable to take part in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles because of the boycott of these games by the GDR . In 1988, when he participation in the Olympic Games in Seoul tried again, he could not qualify anymore. So it came about that one of the best flyweight wrestlers in the free style, who had been among the world's best for almost ten years, was without an Olympic medal.

After his active time as a wrestler, Hartmut Reich completed training as a trainer and is now employed as a trainer for the German Wrestling Association.

Hartmut Reich winning the GDR freestyle championship, 1988

successes

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, Fl = flyweight, Ba = bantam weight, up to 52 kg or 57 kg body weight)

  • 1978, 4th place , EM in Oslo , F, Fl with victories over Michal Kapolka, CSSR a . Ion Arapu et al. Defeats against Nermedin Selimow u. Wladyslaw Stecyk;
  • 1979, 2nd place , EM in Bucharest , F, Fl. with victories over Efremow Koce, Yugoslavia , Fritz Niebler, Aslan Seyhanlı, Turkey a. Andrzej Kudelski, Poland a. a loss to Yarugi Shagayev , USSR;
  • 1980, 3rd place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Freiburg, F, Fl. behind Anatoli Beloglasow u. Wladyslaw Stecyk u. before Ray Takahashi;
  • 1981, 2nd place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Freiburg, F, Fl, behind Wladyslaw Stecyk u. before Ashok Sanojan, USSR, Ray Takahashi a. Lájos Szabo;
  • 1981, 1st place , EM in Łódź , F, Fl, with victories over Yarugi Schagajew, Valentin Jordanow , Bulgaria, Wladyslaw Stecyk u. Lájos Szabo;
  • 1981, 4th place , EM in Varna , F, Fl, behind Valentin Jordanow, Lájos Szabo u. Osman Efendiew , USSR a. in front of Aslan Seyhanlı, Turkey a. Michal Kapolka;
  • 1982, 1st place , World Championships in Edmonton , F, Fl, ahead of Osman Efendiew, Joe Gonzales, Young Kyu-Kim, South Korea, Aslan Seyhanlı u. Admir Teherani, Iran;
  • 1983, 4th place , World Championships in Kiev , F, Fl, behind Valentin Jordanow, Tochio Asakura, Japan a. Anatoli Beloglasow u. before Aslan Seyhanlı u. Lee Chorus, South Korea;
  • 1985, 4th place , EM in Leipzig , F, Fl, with victories over Lájos Szabo u. Aslan Seyhanlı u. Defeats against Valentin Jordanow a. Kirkesner, USSR;
  • 1986, 4th place , World Cup in Budapest , F, Fl, behind Kim Young-Sik, North Korea, Mitsuru Sato u. Valentin Jordanow et al. before Rho Kyung-Sun, South Korea a. Vladimir Toguzov , USSR;

GDR championships

  • 1974, 2nd place, F, Fl, behind Jürgen Möbius , SC Motor Jena u. in front of Bernd Bobrich , SC Chemie Halle ,
  • 1976, 1st place, F, Fl, before Thiel, ASK forward Frankfurt a . Rabe, SC Motor Jena,
  • 1977, 2nd place, F, Ba, behind Bernd Bobrich u. with envy, SC Chemie Halle,
  • 1979, 2nd place, F, Ba, behind Bernd Bobrich u. in front of Spröte, SC Chemie Halle,
  • 1980, 1st place, F, Ba, in front of Tarangul, ASK forward Frankfurt a. Schreiter, SC Leipzig ,
  • 1981, 1st place, F, Ba, before Thiel u. Quandt, SC Chemie Halle,
  • 1984, 1st place, F, Ba, ahead of Pobeschinow, SC Motor Jena a. Zimmermann, SC Leipzig,
  • 1985, 2nd place, F, Ba, behind Bernd Bobrich u. in front of Tölle, SC Chemie Halle,
  • 1988, 1st place, F, Ba, before Tölle u. Keller, SG Dynamo Luckenwalde

swell

  • 1) Div. Issues of the specialist magazine "Der Ringer" from 1974 to 1988,
  • 2) International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig,
  • 3) "Hundred Years of Wrestling in Germany", Verlag "Der Ringer", Niedernberg, 1991,
  • 4) Website "www.sport-komplett.de"

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Rich, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Apolda