Karl Meli

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Karl Meli (born June 22, 1938 in Winterthur - Veltheim ; † March 12, 2012 there ) was a Swiss wrestler . The two-time oscillator King of oscillating clubs Winterthur is equipped with multiple records, one of the most successful oscillator of modern times.

Career

Meli, who was already active as a child on TV Veltheim as a gymnastics wrestler in addition to wrestling , won his first wreath at a Swiss wrestling festival in 1956 , and by the end of his career it should be nine, which is a record. In 1960 the Brünigschwinget had a fateful incident in the final aisle where Melis competitor Beat Thöni , after being laid on his back by Meli, was left lying in sawdust with paraplegia . Meli and Thöni have been good friends since this incident, Meli never took part in the Brünigschwinget again.

At the Swiss Federal in Zug in 1961, Meli got stuck in the sawdust after winning in third gear and had to be carried off the pitch. The then missed fourth gear, Meli, as the favorite, was allowed to catch up the next morning. In the end he became king of wrestling for the first time in a final course of just 2½ minutes against Karl Oberholzer. He was able to defend this title in 1964 at the Swiss Confederation, where he won against Alois Boog in the final course. In 1966 he was also the favorite at the Swiss Wrestling Festival in Frauenfeld, but failed in the final round to Ruedi Hunsperger . That was the worst defeat of his career.

Another record of Melis are his two victories at Kilchberger Schwinget , 1967 and 1973, which no other wrestler has achieved to date. Meli finally ended his long active career at the age of 40 after four more victories in the last season at the Kilchberger Schwinget in 1978. During his career, he was denied the wreath only once at 125 wrestling festivals, because at the age of 18 he was banned from playing at the Northeast Swiss Wrestling Festival The referee had looked at sheet music and had to accept a deduction of points. With his 124 wreaths he was and with 61 wreath festival victories he is also the record holder, 46 times he won the coveted "leaves" in the national gymnastics. Karl Meli also regularly took part in wrestling festivals without giving a wreath and is the record winner at most wrestling festivals he was able to participate in.

Meli remained in the sport as technical director of the Winterthur wrestling club and through wrestling courses that were held by him. He also remained an active member of the Veltheim gymnastics club for a long time.

Most important victories and records

  • Wrestling King: 1961, 1964
  • Kilchberg winner: 1967, 1973
  • Anniversary swing 75 years ESV: 1970
  • Memorial swing Murten: 1976
  • Northeastern Switzerland: 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973
  • Bernese canton: 1959
  • Central Switzerland: 1965
  • Southwestern Switzerland: 1967
  • Brünig: 1960
  • Stoos: 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1975
  • Rigi: 1969
  • Appenzeller: 1970
  • Bündner-Glarner: 1974
  • Glarner-Bündner: 1966, 1967, 1971, 1973
  • St. Galler: 1970
  • Thurgauer: 1972
  • Schaffhauser: 1959, 1961, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977
  • Zürcher: 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1978
  • Basel City: 1966, 1967
  • Zuger: 1967
  • 9 federal wreaths: 1956, 1958, 1961, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1972, 1974, 1977
  • 6 victories at Swiss wrestling festivals: 1961, 1964, 1967, 1970, 1973, 1976
  • 61 wreath celebrations
  • further records: 9 victories on the Allwegschwinget, 13 victories on the Siebner Herbstschwingertag, 5 victories on the Olmaschwinget and many more

Private

Karl Meli was born in the Blumenau district in Winterthur-Veltheim. Meli worked 100 percent throughout his athletic career. After a four-year apprenticeship as a carpenter , he first worked as a forest worker in Winterthur. At the age of 24 he joined the Winterthur City Police as a police officer . Six years later, in 1968, he and his wife took over the "Freieck" restaurant in Oberwinterthur , followed by the "Mühle" Hegi , before he took over the "Sternen" restaurant in Veltheim.

Meli died on March 12, 2012 at the age of 73 after a short, serious illness in Winterthur.

Schwingermuseum

On the initiative of the wrestler Irène Bodenmann-Meli, the daughter of the wrestling legend Karl Meli, a wrestling museum was built on the upper floor of the restaurant "Sternen" in 2009, which was dedicated to Karl Meli and to wrestling in general. With her death in 2019, the museum moved to the Ballenberg Open-Air Museum and will be part of the new special exhibition in 2022.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephan Pörtner (Ed.): Hosenlupf - A cheeky cultural history of swinging. Walde & Graf, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-03774-017-0 ( excerpt ( memento from February 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), p. 108; PDF; 4 kB).
  2. ↑ Beat Thöni: Hold from deep roots. MyHandicap Foundation.
  3. ↑ Klaus Zaugg: Royal scandal at the federal level? Yes. But most recently 57 years ago. In: Watson . August 12, 2018.
  4. ↑ Kilchberger: History events 1967 to 1978. In: Endegang. 5th June 2014.
  5. ↑ Karl Meli is dead. In: 20 minutes . March 13, 2012.
  6. ^ Meli Karl, 1938–2012, Schwingerkönig / Wirt im Winterthur Glossary.
  7. ^ Schwingermuseum im Restaurant Sternen, Winterthur ( Memento from March 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  8. ↑ Nora Devenish: Schwingern inheritance of national importance. In: Jungfrau Zeitung of March 14, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Meli, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2012
Place of death Winterthur