Jürgen Klinge

Jürgen Klinge (born June 27, 1940 in Leipzig ) is a former German wrestler .

Career

Klinge grew up in Leipzig and began wrestling as a teenager. He became a member of the SC Leipzig and developed there into an excellent wrestler in the Greco-Roman style. In 1962 he was also known on the international wrestling level when he took 4th place in the light heavyweight division of the "Werner Seelenbinder Tournament" in Leipzig. From 1964 to 1972, Klinge was always able to place himself in the front of the field at the GDR championships in the Greco-Roman style in the light and heavyweight division. He was GDR champion a total of five times.

A curiosity on the side: In 1964, Klinge was GDR runner-up in the light heavyweight division behind Herbert Albrecht and three years later, in 1967, he became GDR light heavyweight champion in front of Peter Wismer and Fredi Albrecht , the son of Herbert Albrecht.

From 1965, the blade was also often used at the major international championships. His best results were a 5th place at the world championship in 1967 in Bucharest in the light heavyweight division, where he also managed a victory over the later multiple Swedish world champion Per Svensson and a 5th place at the European championship in Berlin in 1970 , where he beat the Romanian world champion Nicolae Martinescu won and he managed a draw against the Hungarian world class wrestler Ferenc Kiss . In 1969 and 1970 Jürgen Klinge suffered from the fact that the GDR had no wrestlers in the Greco-Roman for economic reasons. Stil sent to the World Championships and stayed away from the European Championships in Modena in 1969 for political reasons.

In 1968, Klinge also represented the GDR at the Olympic Games in Mexico City , but only came 12th there. In 1972 he was GDR heavyweight champion again before Fredi Albrecht from SC Motor Zella-Mehlis . At the Olympic Games that year in Munich, however, Fredi Albrecht was preferred to him by the GDR wrestling association. He then ended his wrestling career.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Hs = light heavyweight, S = heavyweight, SS = super heavyweight at that time up to 87 kg or 97 kg and up to 100 kg body weight or over 100 kg body weight)

• 1962, 4th place , “Werner Seelenbinder Tournament” in Leipzig, GR, Hs, behind Lennart Persson , Sweden , Günter Pötsch, Austria and Radoslaw Kasabow, Bulgaria and ahead of Günter Schmidt, GDR;

• 1965
  • 4th place , tournament in Klippan / Sweden, GR, Hs, behind Petar Cucic , Yugoslavia , Stig Persson , Sweden and Helmut Gössner, FRG and in front of Gunnar Larsson, Sweden;
  • 8th place , World Championship in Tampere , GR, Hs, with a victory over Heinz Kiehl , FRG and defeats against Josef Prenosil, CSSR and Valeri Anisimow , USSR ;

• 1966, 8th place , EM in Essen , GR, Hs, with a victory over Karel Struyf, CSSR and defeats against Alexei Karmazkich , USSR and Aimo Mypenpää , Finland ;

• 1967
  • 2nd place , tournament in Klippan, GR, Hs, behind Per Svensson, Sweden and in front of Josip Čorak , Yugoslavia and Tore Hem , Norway ;
  • 3rd place , tournament in Greiz , GR, Hs, behind Zinzarow, Bulgaria and Bartunek, Poland;
  • 5th place , World Championships in Bucharest, GR, Hs, with victories over Gery Stensland, USA , Caj Malmberg, Finland and Per Svensson and one defeat against Nicolae Martinescu, Romania ;

• 1968
  • 3rd place , tournament in Zella-Mehlis, GR, Hs, behind Per Svensson and Fredi Albrecht, GDR;
  • 6th place , EM in Västerås , GR, Hs, with a victory over Peter Jutzeler, Switzerland and defeats against Valeri Anisimow and Bojan Radew , Bulgaria;
  • 12th place , OS in Mexico City, GR, Hs, after defeats against Ferenc Kiss, Hungary and Nicolae Martinescu;

• 1969
  • 5th place , tournament in Klippan, GR, S, behind Nicolae Martinescu, Tor Hem, Nordström, Sweden and Lennart Eriksson, Sweden and ahead of Herbert Schwarz, FRG;
  • 3rd place , "Wladislaw-Pytlasinski-Tournament" in Warsaw , GR, S, behind Ferenc Kiss and Andrzej Skrzydlewski , Poland ;

• 1970, 3rd place , tournament in Klippan, GR, SS, behind Roland Bock , FRG and Anatoli Kotschnew , USSR and in front of Arne Robertsson , Sweden;

• 1971
  • 1st place , “Werner Seelenbinder Tournament” in Berlin, GR, S, ahead of Fredi Albrecht and Kamen Losanow Goranow , Bulgaria;
  • 14th place , World Championships in Sofia , GR, S, after defeats against Vasily Merkulow , USSR and Per Svensson

International battles

• 1965, GDR against Japan , GR, Hs, shoulder winner over Kenjirō Hiraki ,
• 1965, GDR against Romania, draw against Constantin Bosoiu,
• 1966, GDR against Sweden, point defeat against Per Svensson,
• 1966, GDR against Sweden, point defeat against Per Svensson

GDR championships

• 1964, 2nd place, GR, Hs, behind Herbert Albrecht , SC Motor Zella-Mehlis and in front of Täsch, Dynamo Bitterfeld ,
• 1965, 1st place, GR, Hs, in front of Pötsch, SC Motor Jena and Ziege, Motor Tambach-Dietharz ,
• 1966, 1st place, GR, Hs, before Peter Wismer , SG Dynamo Luckenwalde and Günter Schmidt , ASK Vorwärts Rostock ,
• 1967, 1st place, GR, Hs, ahead of Peter Wismer and Fredi Albrecht, SC Motor Zella-Mehlis,
• 1968, 1st place, GR, Hs, in front of Fredi Albrecht and Peter Wismer,
• 1969, 2nd place, GR, S, behind Fredi Albrecht and in front of O. Wismer, Dynamo Eisenach ,
• 1971, 2nd place, GR, S, behind Fredi Albrecht and in front of Dietmar Wolter, ASK Vorwärts Rostock,
• 1972, 1st place, GR, S, ahead of Fredi Albrecht and H.-Jürgen Bohndorf, SC Leipzig

swell

• Athletics magazine . Numbers: 23/1962, p. 16, 3/1965, p. 7, 13/1965, p. 20, 11/1966, p. 10, 2/1967, p. 11, 5/1967, p. 16, 7/1968, p. 8 and p. 32, 11/1968, p. 10, 2/1969, p. 4, 1/1970, p. 32, 2/1970, p. 8, 7/1970, p. 13, 10/1971, p. 11 and p. 32,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships. 1976, pp. W-66 and W-76.
• A hundred years of wrestling in Germany. Der Ringer, Niedernberg 1991, p. 185.
• Website www.sport-komplett.de with the results of the GDR championships

Web links

• Profile of Jürgen Klinge at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Jürgen Klinge in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )