Kurt Spaniol

Kurt Spaniol (born September 19, 1954 in Eppelborn ) is a former German wrestler .

Career

Kurt Spaniol began wrestling as a teenager at KSV Eppelborn , but soon switched to Bundesliga club KSV Köllerbach . He wrestled in the Greco-Roman style. In 1972 he won the title at the German youth championship in the class up to 75 kg body weight and in 1974 he became German junior middleweight champion. Kurt Spaniol first won the title of German senior senior champion in 1977. In total, he was German middleweight champion six times in a row by 1982.

Between 1974 and 1982 Kurt Spaniol represented the German colors in countless international championships and tournaments. He always fought with full commitment and always with fair means. The great success was denied to him. His best results were the 4th place at the Junior European Championship in 1974 in Haparanda , the excellent 5th place at the World Championship in Mexico City , where he was able to defeat the top wrestlers Leif Andersson from Sweden and Ömer Suzan from Turkey and the good 5th place Place at the European Championship 1982 in Varna .

Against the then middleweight in Greco-Roman. Style dominant Jan Dołgowicz from Poland , Ion Draica from Romania , Taimuraz Abchazawa , Anatoly Nazarenko u. Vladimir Tscheboksarow from the USSR , Frank Andersson from Sweden and Momir Petkovic from Yugoslavia did some good fights, but could not defeat these wrestlers.

Kurt Spaniol, who is a police officer, achieved great success at the European Championships of Police Officers, where he won the title several times.

After retiring from active wrestling, he made himself available to the Saarland wrestling association as a functionary.

International championships

(WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, back then up to 82 kg or 90 kg body weight)

• 1974, 4th place , Junior European Championship in Haparanda , GR, Wed, behind Frank Andersson , Sweden , Alexander Dubrowski , USSR a . Arto Vainiö, Finland a . before Janusz Trela, Poland a . Christian Boetsch, France ;

• 1975, 5th place , tournament in Klippan , GR, Wed, behind Vladimir Tscheboksarow , USSR, Frank Andersson, Kurt Elmgren u. Leif Andersson , all Swedes a. off Mankhorov, Bulgaria ;

• 1975, 1st place , tournament in Salzburg , GR, Wed, in front of Okorek, Poland;

• 1977, 4th place , Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Aschaffenburg , GR, Wed, behind Anatoli Nasarenko , USSR, Leif Andersson u. Jan Dolgowicz , Poland a. before André Bouchoule , France;

• 1977, 2nd place , tournament in Kladovo , GR, Wed, behind Christow, Bulgaria a. before Nesic, Yugoslavia ,

• 1977, 9th place , EM in Bursa , GR, Wed, after defeats against Ömer Suzan , Turkey a . Jimmy Martinetti, Switzerland ;

• 1974, 4th place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg, GR, Wed, behind Ion Draica , Romania , Malchas Leschawa, USSR a. Rangel Iliew, Bulgaria a. before Toni Kunkel, BRD a. Benny Emmerechts, Belgium ;

• 1978, 1st place , tournament in Athens , GR, Wed, in front of André Bouchoule u. MH Amar, Egypt ;

• 1978, 12th place , EM in Oslo , GR, Wed, after defeats against Christow a. Miroslav Janota , Czechoslovakia ;

• 1978, 5th place , World Cup in Mexico City , GR, Wed, with victories over Leif Andersson u. Ömer Suzan u. Defeats against Vladimir Cheboksarov a. Ion Draica;

• 1979, 5th place , tournament in Klippan , GR, Wed, behind Taimuraz Abchazawa , USSR, Jan Dolgowicz, Leif Andersson u. P. Pavlov, Bulgaria a. in front of Mylleri, Sweden;

• 1979, 4th place , Grand Prix de BRD in Aschaffenburg, GR, Wed, behind Ion Draica, Taimuraz Abchazawa u. Jan Dolgowicz u. before Kolo Baszakow, Bulgaria a. Leif Andersson;

• 1979, 10th place , EM in Bucharest , GR, Wed, with a defeat against Ömer Suzan; in the fight Spaniol against Miroslav Janota both wrestlers were disqualified for passivity;

• 1979, 9th place , World Championships in San Diego , GR, Wed, with a victory over Leif Andersson u. Defeats to Ion Draica u. Momir Petkovic , Yugoslavia;

• 1980, 9th place , EM in Prievidza , GR, Wed, after defeats against Ion Draica a. Detlef Kuhn, GDR ;

• 1981, 3rd place , tournament in Västerås , GR, Wed, behind Jan Dolgowicz u. Taimuraz Abchazawa et al. before Leif Andersson, Sören Claesson u. Bryan Smith, all Swedes;

• 1981, 2nd place , "Wladyslaus-Pytalinski" tournament in Warsaw , GR, Wed, behind Suchoplujow, USSR a. in front of Bozenkow, Bulgaria;

• 1981, 12th place , EM in Göteborg , GR, Wed, after defeats against Jan Dolgowicz a. Mihály Toma , Hungary ;

• 1981, 7th place , World Championships in Oslo , GR, Wed, with victories over Kaj Jägersgaard, Denmark a . Louis Santerre, Canada a . Losses against Jari Salimäki , Finland a. Mihály Toma;

• 1982, 2nd place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Freiburg im Breisgau , GR, Wed, behind Taimuraz Abchazawa u. before Jan Dolgowics, Siegfried Seibold, BRD, Momir Petkovic u. Adrian Brädle, FRG;

• 1982, 5th place , EM in Varna , GR, Wed, behind Janimow, USSR, Andrzej Malina , Poland, Ion Draica u. Momir Petkovic et al. before Jarmo Övermark , Finland;

• 1984, 2nd place , European Police Championships in Göppingen , GR, Hs, behind Jean-François Court, France a. in front of Pal Berger, Norway ;

• 1988, 1st place , European Police Championships in Oslo , GR, Hs, ahead of Jorma Niemi, Finland and Frank Karlsson, Sweden;

• 1992, 2nd place , European Police Championships in Malmö , F, S, behind Benny Stridh, Sweden a. in front of Douglas Thompson, UK

German championships

• 1976, 2nd place, GR, Wed, behind Helmut Gerlach, Aschaffenburg u. in front of Eduard Finkenwirth, Kahl am Main ,
• 1977, 1st place, GR, Wed, before Toni Kunkel, Goldbach u. Uwe Sachs , Freiburg im Breisgau - Haslach ,
• 1978, 1st place, GR, Wed, before Toni Kunkel u. U. Richter, Bonn - Duisdorf ,
• 1979, 1st place, GR, Wed, before Toni Kunkel u. Hans-Joachim Klötzing , Witten ,
• 1980, 1st place, GR, Wed, in front of Hans-Joachim Klötzing a. Bernd Rothard, Wiesental ,
• 1981, 1st place, GR, Wed, in front of Franz-Josef Esser, Witten a. Toni Kunkel,
• 1982, 1st place, GR, Wed, before Siegfried Seibold , Bad Reichenhall u. A. Brädle, Urloffen ,
• 1983, 2nd place, GR, Wed, behind Siegfried Seibold u. in front of Lothar Ruch, Aldenhoven

swell

• 1) Div. Issues of the specialist magazines "Athletik" from 1974 and later. 1975 and "Der Ringer" from 1976 to 1984,
• 2) "Hundred Years of Wrestling in Germany", Verlag "Der Ringer", Niedernberg, 1991,
• 3) Website "www.sport-komplett.de"

Web links

• Profile of Kurt Spaniol at the Institute for Applied Training Science