Karsten Polky

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Karsten Polky medal table

Wrestler

GDR
World Championship
bronze 1989 Martigny feather
European Championship
silver 1987 Veliko Tarnovo feather
silver 1988 Manchester feather
silver 1989 Ankara feather
silver 1990 Poznań feather

Karsten Polky (born November 14, 1964 in Bad Schmiedeberg ) is a former German wrestler . He was won numerous medals at World and European Championships in the free style in the featherweight .

Career

Karsten Polky began in 1971 in Bitterfeld with the rings . His first trainer there was Klaus Lattke. In 1978, as he was considered a great talent, he was delegated to SG Dynamo Luckenwalde and trained there by the coaches Ingo Lemke and Fred Hempel to become an excellent wrestler in the free style. Karsten Polky celebrated his first big success at the Junior European Championship in Slaghaven / Denmark . He finished there in featherweight behind the Bulgarian Rumen Pawlow and before Ahmet Ak from Turkey in 2nd place.

His international career really started in 1987, when he first became East German featherweight champion. He was then used at the European Championships in Veliko Tarnovo , Bulgaria , and won an excellent 2nd place there straight away. At the world championship of the same year in Clermont-Ferrand he achieved a shoulder victory over the German representative Ralf Lyding from Witten in the first round , but ended up in 7th place in the final result.

In 1988 he repeated the success of 1987 at the European Championships in Manchester , because he was again vice European champion and left behind such strong wrestlers as Simeon Schterew from Bulgaria, Giovanni Schillaci from Italy and Jörg Helmdach from Germany . Karsten Polky was then sent to the Olympic Games in Seoul . He did not come there but under the top eight wrestlers after he was eliminated in the fifth round after three wins and two losses.

At the 1989 European Championships in Ankara , Karsten Polky again won the European Vice-Champion title. It was the Bulgarian Alben Kumbarow who blocked him the jump on the highest podium. A small episode on the edge of this championship. The Turkish organizer mistakenly raised the German flag at the award ceremony for Karsten Polky. After the Turks apologized to the GDR team, the mishap was over. Did the Turks already suspect something of the imminent German reunification in April 1989?

At the 1989 World Cup in Martigny / Switzerland , Karsten Polky won his first world championship medal in featherweight with third place. In the second round he won over Jörg Helmdach from Witten with 2: 1 points and in the battle for the bronze medal he defeated the Korean Seung Ou-Kum with 5: 4 points.

Also in 1990 Karsten Polky finished 2nd at the European Championships in Poznań , for the fourth time in a row. This time it was Ralf Lyding from Witten, of all people, who defeated him in the final with 4: 2 points and was European champion ahead of him . Karsten Polky also fought very well at the 1990 World Cup in Tokyo , where the GDR last competed as an independent team. He scored three victories and returned the favor to European champion Ralf Lyding, whom he beat on points, but still only reached 9th place.

In 1991 Karsten Polky did not play at the international championships. In 1992 he was there again. At the European Championships in Kaposvár in Hungary he was unlucky with the draw, because he met the Bulgarian Rosen Wassiljew and the Cypriot Aroutioun Barsengian in his first two fights and lost both fights with 0: 1 points, which for him ultimately 16th place meant.

In 1992 Karsten Polky took part in the Olympic Games in Barcelona for the second time. He won his first two fights, but then lost to perhaps the best freestyle wrestler of the entire tournament, the US American John Smith and the strong South Korean Shin-Sang, and came in 9th . Space.

After German reunification, Karsten Polky was one of the few top wrestlers from the GDR who did not go to a Bundesliga club in the old federal states. He stayed in Luckenwalde and started for the 1st Luckenwalder Sportclub, which emerged from SG Dynamo Luckenwalde, in the 1st Bundesliga until 1994.

International success

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

  • 1988, ?. Place , OS in Seoul , F, Fe, winner: John Smith before Stepan Sarkisjan u. Simeon Schterew, Karsten Polky did not place in the top eight wrestlers;
  • 1989, 2nd place , EM in Ankara , F, Fe, behind Alben Kumbarow , Bulgaria a. before Giovanni Schillaci, K. Mardschew, USSR, Selman Kaygusuz, Turkey a. Mika Lehto, Finland ;
  • 1989, 3rd place , World Championship in Martigny / Switzerland, F, Fe, behind John Smith u. Gary Bohaty , Canada a . before Seung Ou-Kum, South Korea, Kazuhito Sakae u. Stepan Sarkisjan;
  • 1990, 2nd place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Saarbrücken , F, Fe, together with Ralf Lyding, ahead of Jürgen Scheibe , FRG, Sin Sang-Kyu, South Korea a. Jan Krzesiak, Poland;
  • 1990, 2nd place , EM in Poznań , F, Fe, behind Ralf Lyding u. in front of Rosen Wassiljew , Bulgaria, Metin Kaplan , Turkey, Smiel Magamedow, USSR u. Prefit Dumitru, Romania;
  • 1990, 9th place , World Cup in Tokyo , F, Fe, winner: John Smith in front of Rosen Wassiljew u. Gadji Rachidow, USSR;
  • 1992, 2nd place , Grand Prix of the CSSR in Bratislava , F, Fe, behind Peter Okos, CSSR a. before Marty Calder , Canada;
  • 1992, 3rd place , Grand Prix of Germany in Leipzig , F, Fe, behind Olchozak Muchtarow, Russia a. Niazbek Antujew, Russia a. in front of Torsten Gut u. Andreas Verniest, bde. Germany u. Alben Kumbarow, Bulgaria;
  • 1992, 16th place , EM in Kaposvár / Hungary, F, Fe, winner: Giovanni Schillaci in front of Rosen Wassiljew u. Ismail Faikoglu , Turkey;
  • 1993, 2nd place , Grand Prix of Germany in Leipzig, F, Fe, behind Markus Keller, Germany a. before Saban Trstena , Germany (Fri Yugoslavia )

GDR championships

German championships

swell

  • Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 6/1987, page 9, 9/1987, pages 9/10, 5/1988, pages 4/5, 10/1988, page 12, 5/1989, page 10, 9/1989, page 10, 5/1990, pages 4 to 7, 10/1990, page 4, 5/1992, pages 10 to 14, 9/1992, pages 10 to 15
  • Hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer publishing house , Niedernberg , 1991, pages 194, 226 u. 239
  • Website "www.sport-komplett.de"
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
  • Website of the 1st Luckenwalder SC

Web links

Profile of Karsten Polky at the Institute for Applied Training Science

personal data
SURNAME Polky, Karsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Schmiedeberg