Klaus Pohl (wrestler)

Klaus-Jürgen Pohl (born August 1, 1941 in Demmin ) is a former German wrestler .

Life

Klaus Pohl from Demmin in Mecklenburg began wrestling as a teenager. After initial successes, the wrestler, highly rated by the talent scouts of the GDR wrestling association, was delegated to SG Dynamo Luckenwalde , where he developed into a class wrestler in the Greco-Roman style with coach Rolf Wilkowski. One of his first major successes was the 2nd place in the lightweight, Greco-Roman style at the "Werner Seelenbinder Tournament" in Leipzig in 1962 behind Eckhard Schulz from Rostock and ahead of Stas Penew, Bulgaria . The future world champion Dawid Gwandseladzefrom the USSR was only 6th winner in this weight class. He first became GDR lightweight champion in 1964 when he defeated the favorite Eckhard Schulz. Klaus Pohl's greatest success was winning the European Championship in Essen in 1966 . When studying his opponents in international competitions in the following years, it is noticeable that he always had an extremely difficult lot. So he defeated z. For example, at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , Vitezlav Macha and Gennadi Sapunow, two world champions, only to fail in the next round against two other world champions, Petros Galaktopoulos and Stevan Horvat .

After the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , Klaus Pohl ended his wrestling career and was a successful coach at Dynamo Luckenwalde for many years.

International success

(all competitions in Greco-Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, lightweight, up to 68 or 70 kg, welter weight, up to 74 or 78 kg body weight)

year	space	competition	Weight class
1963	1.	"Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig	Welter	in front of Eckhard Schulz u. Gods, bde. GDR
1964	1.	Intern. Tournament in Gelenau	Welter	in front of bracket u. Cousin, bde. GDR
1965	6th	World Cup in Tampere	Light	with victories over Petros Galaktopoulos , Greece , James Burke, USA and defeats against Guro Gurow , Bulgaria and Munaji Munemura, Japan
1966	1.	EM in Essen	Light	with victories over Josef Brötzner, Austria , Antonio Margaca Galantinho, Portugal , Eero Tapio , Finland , Branislav Martinović , Yugoslavia , Antal Steer, Hungary and Ion Gabor , Romania and despite a defeat by Aage Barlie, Norway
1967	3.	EM in Minsk	Light	with victories over Kazimierz Macioch, Poland , Marin Bolocan, Romania, Boris Butrakow , Bulgaria, one draw against Tapio and one defeat against Gennady Sapunow , USSR
1967	11.	World Cup in Bucharest	Light	after losing to Antal Steer and Mohammad Farhangdoust, Iran
1968	4th	EM in Västerås	Light	with victories over Franz Schmitt (wrestler) , Federal Republic of Germany , Ion Enache , Romania, Wladimir Novochatko, USSR and a draw against Boris Butrakow
1968	10.	OS in Mexico City	Light	with victories over Vitezlav Macha , CSSR and Gennadi Sapunow, USSR and defeats against Petros Galaktopoulos, Greece and Stevan Horvat , Yugoslavia
1970	1.	Intern. Tournament in Berlin (East)	Welter	before Konytschew, USSR a. Ivan Kolew , Bulgaria
1970	7th	EM in Berlin (East),	Welter	with victories over Macha, Harald Barlie, Norway and defeats against Momir Kecman, Yugoslavia and Wiktor Igumenow , USSR
1971	7th	World Cup in Sofia	Welter	with victories over Tapio and Macha and defeats against Igumenow and Butrakow
1972	7th	OS in Munich	Welter	with wins over Robert Blaser, Switzerland and Tapio and defeats against Macha and Daniel Robin , France

GDR championships

year	space	style	Weight class
1964	1.	GR	Light	in front of Eckhard Schulz , Rostock and Heinz Henkel, Zella-Mehlis
1965	1.	GR	Light	before Adolf Franke , Leipzig and Schulz
1966	1.	GR	Light	in front of Henkel and Frey, Rostock
1967	2.	GR	Light	behind Schulz and in front of Klaus-Peter Göpfert , Zella-Mehlis
1968	1.	GR	Light	before Jürgen Hähnel , Leipzig and Göpfert
1969	1.	GR	Welter	before Göpfert and Ensign, Zella-Mehlis
1970	1.	GR	Welter	before Bernd Müller, Luckenwalde and Gotter, Leipzig
1971	1.	GR	Welter	in front of Müller and Helbing, Leipzig
1972	1.	GR	Welter	before Detlef Klett, Luckenwalde and Rößler, Leipzig

swell

Hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer publishing house , Niedernberg , 1991, pages 193 u. 235

Web links

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