Karl Dodrimont

Karl Dodrimont medal table
Wrestler
Germany
World Championship
bronze	1965 Manchester	Bantam

Karl Dodrimont (* 14. January 1939 in Baienfurt ) is a former German wrestler in the bantamweight . He was a bronze medalist at the 1965 World Cup in Free Style .

Career

Karl Dodrimont grew up in Baienfurt in the Ravensburg district . As a student, he joined the KG Baienfurt with the rings . After finishing school he learned the trade of a mechanic. He celebrated his first major success on the wrestling mat in 1959 when he became German junior flyweight champion in free style in Nendingen . In 1963 he fought for his first two German championship titles in bantamweight in the free style and in the Greco-Roman style, which were to be followed by some. He was one of the main competitors of world champion Fritz Stange from Untertürkheim , from whom he was able to snatch some German championship titles.

Karl made his debut on the international wrestling mat in 1963 at the World Championships in Sofia . He won two fights, tied once, only lost to the Japanese Hiroshi Ikeda and took a good 7th place.

In the all-German Olympic elimination for the 1964 Games in Tokyo , he prevailed against Karl-Heinz Gorny from SC Leipzig . In Tokyo, however, he lost both fights that he could contest, and only came in 15th place. One of the wrestlers against whom he lost was the Japanese Yōjirō Uetake , who was also superior Olympic bantamweight champion.

Karl Dodrimont then celebrated a great success at the 1965 World Cup in Manchester . In bantamweight he won the world championship bronze medal with three wins. In 1966 he took a good 6th place both at the World Championships in Toledo / USA and at the European Championships in Karlsruhe .

In 1968 he tried to qualify again for the Olympic Games in Mexico City . However, he did not succeed. He then ended his international wrestling career.

Karl Dodrimont then had a lot of fun with his son Uwe , who was also one of the top German wrestlers.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = freestyle, Fl = flyweight, Ba = bantam weight, back then up to 52 kg or 57 kg body weight)

• 1963, 7th place , World Cup in Sofia , F, Ba, with victories over Badsaryn Süchbaatar , Mongolia and Georges Jaquinot, France , a draw against Vojtečh Tóth, CSSR and a defeat against Hiroshi Ikeda, Japan ;
• 1964, 15th place , OS in Tokyo , F, Ba, after defeats to Mohamad Sinaj-Din, Pakistan and Yōjirō Uetake , Japan;
• 1965, 3rd place , World Cup in Manchester , F, Ba, with victories over S. Blancher, France , B. Green, Canada and Bishambar Singh, India and defeats to Mohammad Farroukhin, Iran , Taniaki Fukuda, Japan and Hüseyin Akbaş , Turkey ;
• 1966, 6th place , EM in Karlsruhe , F, Ba, with a win against Luigi Chinazzo, Italy and defeats against Niculae Cristea, Romania and Aydın İbrahimov , USSR ;
• 1966, 6th place , World Cup in Toledo / USA , F, Ba, with victories over Yrjö Leppänen, Finland and Heinrich Theuretzbacher, Austria and defeats against Abutaleb Talebi, Iran and Hasan Sevinc , Turkey;
• 1968, 14th place , EM in Skopje , F, Ba, after defeats against Ivan Schawow , Bulgaria and Ali Aliyev , USSR

Most important international battles

• 1963, FRG against USA , F, Ba, points winner over Andrew Fitch,
• 1963, Bulgaria against FRG, GR, Ba, point winner over Majdarow,
• 1963, Bulgaria against FRG, GR, Ba, point winner over Akhmedov,
• 1963, FRG against Bulgaria, GR, Ba, point winner over Dimitrov,
• 1963, FRG against Bulgaria, GR, Ba, point defeat against Russenow,
• 1963, FRG against Switzerland , F, Ba, shoulder winner over J. Oettli,
• 1964, FRG against France, F, Ba, point winner over Deloor,
• 1964, FRG against Bulgaria, F, Ba, point defeat against Stojko Malow ,
• 1965, South Africa against FRG, F, Ba, points winner over Van Aarde,
• 1965, South Africa against FRG, F, Ba, points winner over Byrne,
• 1965, FRG against USSR, GR, Ba, draw against Gukassjan,
• 1965, FRG against USSR, GR, Ba, point defeat against Gukassjan,
• 1965, FRG against Sweden , F, Ba, point winner over Grenblad,
• 1966, Sweden against FRG, F, Ba, points winner over Axelsson

German championships

• 1961, 3rd place, GR, Fl, behind Paul Neff , Schifferstadt and Rolf Lacour , Köllerbach ,
• 1962, 3rd place, F, Fl, behind Rolf Lacour and Paul Neff,
• 1963, 1st place, GR, Ba, in front of Fritz Stange , Untertürkheim and Bruno Steinmetz, Mainz ,
• 1963, 1st place, F, Ba, ahead of Erwin Trouvain , Heusweiler and Fritz Stange,
• 1964, 1st place, GR, Ba, ahead of Fritz Stange and Bruno Steinmetz,
• 1964, 1st place, F, Ba, in front of Fritz Stange and Franz Tempes , Schorndorf ,
• 1965, 1st place, GR, Ba, in front of Fritz Stange and Heinz Kunzmann, Berghausen ,
• 1965, 2nd place, F, Ba, behind Fritz Stange and in front of Werner Hettich , Freiburg im Breisgau ,
• 1966, 2nd place, GR, Ba, behind Fritz Stange and in front of Franz Tempes,
• 1966, 1st place, F, Ba, in front of Fritz Stange and in front of Walter Holzner, Bad Reichenhall ,
• 1967, 3rd place, GR, Ba, behind Fritz Stange and Franz Tempes
• 1968, 2nd place, F, Ba, behind Paul Neff and in front of Hans-Jürgen Veil , Schifferstadt

swell

• various issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1959 to 1968,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976
• "Hundred Years of Wrestling in Germany", Publisher Deutscher Ringer Bund eV, Verlag "Der Ringer", Niedernberg, 1991

Web links

• Profile of Karl Dodrimont at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Karl Dodrimont in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Newspaper report on Karl Dodrimont from 2009