Helmut Strumpf

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Helmut Strumpf (born February 20, 1951 in Colbitz ) is a former German wrestler . He was runner-up in 1975 in free style featherweight .

Career

Helmut Strumpf began wrestling in 1961 as a teenager. Due to his talent, the trained butcher was soon delegated to SC Motor Jena , where he developed into an excellent freestyle wrestler with coach Joachim Raupach. In 1971 he first drew attention to himself when he finished 2nd behind Helmut Jirmann from SC Leipzig at the GDR featherweight championship . With that he had finally made the leap into the GDR top featherweight freestyle wrestler. Helmut Strumpf made his debut at international championships at the 1972 European Championships in Katowice . He performed well there and took an excellent 5th place, but he was not sent to the Olympic Games in Munich . At the European Championships in 1973 in Lausanne he was there again and reached 6th place.

Helmut's next assignment at an international championship was at the 1975 European championships in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . Here he achieved the greatest success of his career by winning the silver medal. Particularly noteworthy is that he defeated the 1972 Olympic champion Zagalav Abdulbekow from the USSR and the 1972 silver medalist Vehbi Akdağ from Turkey . At the 1975 World Championships in Minsk , Helmut achieved two remarkable victories over world class wrestlers James Humphrey from the USA and Doucho Zekow from Bulgaria . But since he lost against Dzewegiin Oidow from Mongolia and against Theodule Toulotte from France , he had to be satisfied with 6th place. Oidow was world champion before Toulotte.

In 1976 Helmut Strumpf was also used at the Olympic Games in Montreal . He had a lot of loophole, because after two wins, including one over the Soviet representative Sergej Timofejew, he met world champion Dzewegiin Oidow and the surprise man Yang Jung-Mo from North Korea , to whom he was defeated. Yang was Olympic champion before Oidow.

Helmut Strumpf ended his international career with two starts at the European Championships in 1977 and 1978. He still showed good fights there, but could not win any more medals.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = freestyle, Fe = featherweight, then up to 62 kg body weight, Le = lightweight, then up to 68 kg body weight)

GDR championships

  • 1971, 2nd place, F, Fe, behind Helmut Jirmann, SC Leipzig and in front of Seifert, SC Leipzig,
  • 1972, 1st place, F, Fe, ahead of Karl-Heinz Stahr and Dietrich Pagels, both SG Dynamo Luckenwalde ,
  • 1973, 3rd place, F, Fe, behind Horst Mayer , SG Dynamo Luckenwalde and in front of Karl-Heinz Stahr
  • 1974, 1st place, F, Fe, in front of Lutz Eichelmann, SG Dynamo Luckenwalde and Erhard Pocher, SC Motor Jena ,
  • 1975, 2nd place, F, Le, behind Eberhard Probst , SC Chemie Halle and in front of Neumeister, SC Leipzig,
  • 1977, 2nd place, F, Fe, behind Peter Dahlke, SG Dynamo Luckenwalde and in front of Krause, SC Motor Jena,
  • 1978, 1st place, F, Fe, ahead of Erhard Pocher and Neid, SC Chemie Halle

swell

  • various issues of the specialist magazines "Athletik" from 1971 to 1975 and "Der Ringer" from 1976 to 1978,
  • "Hundred Years of Wrestling in Germany", Verlag "Der Ringer", Niedernberg, 1991,
  • International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig

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personal data
SURNAME Stocking, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Colbitz