Karl-Heinz Stahr

Karl-Heinz Stahr (born June 5, 1950 in Treuenbrietzen ) is a former German wrestler . He was runner-up in the 1973 free style featherweight championship.

Career

Karl-Heinz Stahr started out as a gymnast as a teenager , but soon switched to wrestling due to a lack of prospects in gymnastics . There he made rapid progress, was Spartakiadesieger (GDR youth champion) and then delegated to SG Dynamo Luckenwalde .

In the GDR championships in 1972, 1973 and 1975 Stahr won the runner-up in free style in featherweight. He never won a title.

At the international level, Stahr achieved some very good results in international tournaments and was sent to the 1973 World Championships in Tehran . There he surprised the wrestling world by winning the silver medal. He was defeated by the 1972 Olympic champion Zagalav Abdulbekow from the Soviet Union and Petre Coman from Romania , but celebrated a remarkable victory over Iwan Jankow from Bulgaria .

In the years that followed, he was only used once at an international championship, the 1974 World Cup in Istanbul . Stahr didn't get along as well here as in 1973 and finished 12th with a win.

Karl-Heinz Stahr is a machine fitter and runs a car service station in Luckenwalde.

International success

(WM = world championship, F = free style, Ba = bantam weight, Fe = feather weight, back then up to 57 kg or 62 kg body weight)

• 1972, 1st place , tournament in Växjö / Sweden , F, Ba, in front of Necati Moustafa u. Kenneth Karlsson, bde. Sweden a. Gerhard Weisenberger , Federal Republic of Germany ;

• 1973, 2nd place , tournament in Bucharest , F, Fe, behind Petre Coman , Romania a . in front of Mehmet Sari, Turkey ;

• 1973, 1st place , "Dynamo" -Spartakiade in Berlin , F, Fe, in front of Abdurachmanow, USSR a . Zurawsky, Poland ;

• 1973, 2nd place , World Championships in Tehran , F, Fe, with victories over Zdzislaw Stolarski, Poland, Theodule Toulotte , France , Mohammad Navai, Iran a . Iwan Jankow , Bulgaria a . Defeats to Petre Coman a. Zagalav Abdulbekow , USSR;

• 1974, 2nd place , tournament in Łódź , F, Fe, behind Zdzislaw Stolarski u. before Reineri, Cuba ;

• 1974, 2nd place , "Cerra Pelado" tournament in Camagüey / Cuba, F, Fe, behind Jorge Ramos , Cuba a. vor Mütsik, USSR;

• 1974, 12th place , World Cup in Istanbul , F, Fe, with a victory over Zdzislaw Stolarski u. Defeats to Petre Coman a. Dsewegiin Oidow , Mongolia ;

GDR championships

• 1970, 3rd place, F, Le, behind Udo Schröder , SG Dynamo Luckenwalde u. Wolfgang Quente, SC Chemie Halle ,
• 1971, 1st place, F, Le, before Udo Schröder u. Wolfgang Quente,
• 1972, 2nd place, F, Fe, behind Helmut Strumpf , SC Motor Jena u. in front of Dietrich Pagels, SG Dynamo Luckenwalde,
• 1973, 2nd place, F, Fe, behind Horst Mayer , SG Dynamo Luckenwalde u. in front of Helmut Strumpf,
• 1975, 2nd place, F, Fe, behind Peter Dahlke, SG Dynamo Luckenwalde u. in front of Erhard Pocher, SC Motor Jena

swell

• Div. Issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1972 to 1975,
• "Hundred Years of Wrestling in Germany", Verlag "Der Ringer", Niedernberg, 1991,
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Web links

• Profile of Karl-Heinz Stahr at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Karl-Heinz Stahr at the 1st Luckenwalder Sportclub ( Memento from May 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )