Heiko Balz

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Heiko Balz (born September 17, 1969 in Burg (near Magdeburg) ) is a former German wrestler .

Career

Heiko Balz began as a teenager in 1976 in Potsdam with the rings . Because of his good prospects, he was delegated to the children's and youth sports school in Luckenwalde in 1983 . There he was trained as a freestyle wrestler by various coaches at SG Dynamo Luckenwalde and the 1st Luckenwalder SC . His international wrestling career began in 1987 with a start at the Junior World Championship in Katowice . There he took 9th place in the class up to 88 kg body weight, but the next year he came in 3rd place at the European Junior Championships in Wałbrzych / Poland and in 1989 he even became Junior World Champion in Ulaanbaatar .

In 1990 he started at the European Championships in Poznan for the first time among the seniors and with a 4th place narrowly missed the medal ranks due to a defeat against the later European champion Arawat Sabejew from the Soviet Union , against whom he had led 10 seconds before the end of the fight. In the fight for 3rd place he was defeated by Mahmut Demir from Turkey . The GDR started as an independent team for the last time at the World Cup in Tokyo in the same year . Heiko Balz was back in the heavyweight division, but did not make it into the top ten wrestlers in his weight class due to an early defeat against Demir.

In the next seven international championships in which he participated, he always won a medal. In 1991 it was bronze at both the European Championships in Stuttgart and the World Championships in Varna . In 1992 it was the silver medal at the European Championships in Kaposvár and he also won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Barcelona . Both times he lost against the Soviet freestyle artist Leri Chabelowi on points. In Kaposvár with 0: 4 and in Barcelona with 1: 2.

For winning the silver medal in 1992, he received the silver laurel leaf on June 23, 1993.

From 1993 the naturalized Arawat Sabejew started for Germany in the heavyweight division, so that Heiko Balz had to constantly fight for the starting place at the international championships with Arawat Sabejew in the following years. One year Arawat Sabejew was a little stronger than Heiko Balz, the next the other way around. In 1993 Heiko Balz was only at the World Championships in Toronto and won the bronze medal. In the pool final he lost again to Leri Chabelowi.

In 1994 he became vice European champion in Rome , where he lost in the final with a score of 2: 2 by a judge's decision against Marek Garmulewicz from Poland. In his first pool fight he shouldered David Musuľbes from Russia at this championship . In the autumn of 1994, Sabeev started at the world championship and promptly became world champion.

In 1995 Arawat Sabejew was therefore at the international championships at the start. In 1996, Heiko Balz trained many kilos in order to be able to start in light heavyweight (up to 90 kg body weight). At the European Championships in Budapest was again vice European champion. Also in this championship he defeated Macharbek Chadarzew, a Russian world champion. At the Olympic Games of the same year in Atlanta he won over Renney from Australia , but was defeated in the following fights against Jumblat Tedejew , an Ossetian starting for the Ukraine , and against Islam Bayramuchow from Kazakhstan and ended up in 12th place.

At the following international championships he was no longer able to place himself in the medal ranks, but still achieved some results at other international tournaments.

After 2000, Heiko Balz ended his international wrestling career. During his active time he belonged to a sports promotion unit in the German Armed Forces and studied business administration. Today working in an industrial company.

International championships

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = freestyle, Hs = light heavyweight, up to 90 kg and from 1997 up to 97 kg body weight, S = heavyweight, up to 1996 up to 100 kg body weight)

  • 1987, 9th place , European Junior Championships in Katowice , F, up to 88 kg body weight, winner: Oleg Rudnik, USSR ahead of Josef Palatinus, Romania ;
  • 1988, 3rd place , Junior European Championships in Wałbrzych / Poland , G, Hs, behind Jambulat Tedejew , USSR and Veselin Christow, Bulgaria and in front of Milan Mazac, CSSR and Alexanru Koteles, Romania;
  • 1989, 1st place , Junior World Championships in Ulaanbaatar , F, S, ahead of Mahmut Demir , Turkey , Konstantin Alexandrow, USSR and Ideal Stevens, Cuba ;
  • 1990, 4th place , EM in Posen , F, S, behind Arawat Sabejew , USSR, Andrzej Radomski , Poland and Demir and in front of Stojan Nenchew, Bulgaria and Sandor Kiss, Hungary ;
  • 1990, 11th place , World Cup in Tokyo , F, S, winner: Leri Chabelowi , USSR, ahead of Nenchew and Kirk Trost, USA ;
  • 1991, 3rd place , EM in Stuttgart , F, S, behind Ali Kayalı , Turkey and Andrei Golowko, USSR and in front of Radomski, Kostas Avramis, Greece and Kiss;
  • 1991, 3rd place , World Championships in Varna , F, S, behind Chabelowi and Mark Coleman , USA and in front of Kim Tae-woo , Korea , Kiss and Radomski;
  • 1992, 2nd place , EM in Kaposvár , F, S, behind Chabelowi and in front of Kayalı, Kiss, Arvi Aavik , Estonia and Petros Bourdoulis, Greece;
  • 1992, silver medal , OS in Barcelona , F, S, behind Chabelowi and in front of Kayalı, Kim Tae-woo, Radomski and Subash Verma, India ;
  • 1993, 2nd place , "Alexander Medved" tournament in Minsk , F, S, behind Arawat Sabejew, Germany and in front of Mark Kerr , USA, Sjarhej Demtschenka and Igor Bojartschuk, bde. Belarus ;
  • 1993, 3rd place , World Championships in Toronto , F, S, behind Chabelowi and Kayalı and in front of Kim Tae-woo, Alexander Petschipurenko, Ukraine and Milan Mazac, Slovenia ;
  • 1994, 2nd place , EM in Rome , F, S, behind Marek Garmulewicz , Poland and in front of Kayalı, Netschipurenko, Gabor Toth, Hungary and Aavik;
  • 1996, 2nd place , EM in Budapest , F, Hs, behind Eldari Luka Kurtanidze , Georgia and in front of Sagid Murtasalijew , Ukraine , Robert Kostecki, Poland, Kalojan Baew, Bulgaria and Macharbek Chadarzew , Russia;
  • 1996, 12th place , OS in Atlanta , F, Hs, winner: Rasoul Khadem , Iran ahead of Chadarzew, Kurtanidze, Josef Lohyna , Czech Republic , Tedejew and Victor Kodei, Nigeria ;
  • 1997, 3rd place , World Military Games, F, Hs, behind Abdul Reza Karegar, Iran and Nikolai Talegin, Russia;
  • 1997, 4th place , "Dan Kolew" tournament in Sofia , F, Hs, behind Shizad Sedighi, Iran, Talegin and Ahmet Doğu , Turkey and in front of Baew;
  • 1997, 2nd place , Baltic Sea Games in Siaulai / Lithuania , F, Hs, behind Arawat Sabejew and in front of Semartow, Russia;
  • 1998, 6th place , EM in Bratislava , F, Hs, behind Kurtanidze, Garmulewicz, Aftandil Xanthopoulos , Greece, Wadym Tassoew , Ukraine and Andrei Ermenko, Belarus;
  • 1998, 1st place , "Dan Kolew" tournament in Sofia, F, Hs, in front of Dolgorsoren Sambaitor, Mongolia and Sergei Kowalewski , Russia;
  • 1998, 7th place , World Cup in Teheran , F, Hs, behind Abbas Jadidi , Iran, Garmulewicz, Kuramagomed Kuramagomedow , Russia, Wadym Tassoew , Ukraine, Melvin Douglas , USA and Kurtanidze;
  • 1999, 2nd place , World Cup tournament in Spokane , F, Hs, behind Alireza Heidari , Iran and in front of Wilfredo Morales, Cuba, J. Mc Grew, USA, Sabejew and Dean Schmeichel, Canada ;
  • 1999, 1st place , Grand Prix of the FRG, F, Hs, before Schmeichel, Abedanotz Schemarow, Russia, Jörg Gstöttner, Germany and Dehestani Masud, Iran;
  • 1999, 7th place , EM in Minsk , F, Hs, behind Kuramagomed Kuramagomedow, Wadym Tassoew , Kurtanidze, Juris Janovics, Latvia , Dogu and Marin Lazarow, Bulgaria;
  • 1999, 10th place , World Championships in Ankara , F, Hs, winner: Murtazaliew ahead of Heidari and Garmulewicz;
  • 2000, 2nd place , Olympic qualification tournament in Leipzig , F, Hs, behind Tasojew and in front of Schemarow, Bayramuchow and Mazac;
  • 2000, 2nd place , Olympic qualification tournament in Alexandria , F, Hs, behind Schemarow and in front of Otto Aubeli , Hungary, Jalal Baker, Syria and Isaac Mpia, Cameroon

German championships

swell

  • International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig
  • various issues of the specialist magazine "Der Ringer" from 1989 to 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his tasks in the field of sport: ... on June 23, 1993 Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded ... disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the silver Bay leaf from ...
personal data
SURNAME Courtship, Heiko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Castle (near Magdeburg)