Lorenz Hecher

Lorenz Hecher (born September 1, 1946 in Giggenhausen , Bavaria ) is a former German wrestler.

Career

Lorenz Hecher grew up near the Upper Bavarian wrestling stronghold Hallbergmoos , 30 km north of Munich . As a child he joined the local wrestling club SV "Siegfried" together with his brother Alfons, who was three years older than him . In the youth and junior sector, there have not yet been any great successes at German championships. However, he remained loyal to wrestling and was rewarded with 3rd place in the light heavyweight division at the German championships in 1970 in Freiburg im Breisgau . Lorenz Hecher, who was only medium height for a heavyweight at 1.76 m, wrestled almost exclusively in the Greco-Roman style. At the international level he did not succeed in winning a medal, but he achieved excellent results with a fourth and a fifth place at world championships and a fifth place at a European championship. He won the German championship title three times.

Lorenz Hecher moved with his brother Alfons to ASV Schorndorf and wrestled there in the Bundesliga . However, he returned to Upper Bavaria and fought for SpVgg Freising for a few more years . Lorenz Hecher is a farmer.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Hs = light heavyweight, S = heavyweight, SS = super heavyweight, then up to 90 kg, 100 kg and over 100 kg body weight)

• 1971, 5th place , World Cup in Sofia , GR, S, with victories over Daniel Vernik, Argentina , Willie Williams, USA , and Wraclaw Orlowski, Poland , and defeats against Marin Kolew, Bulgaria , and Per Svensson , Sweden ;
• 1972, 11th place , OS in Munich , GR, S, after defeats against Andrzej Skrzydlewski , Poland, and Ferenc Kiss , Hungary (both wrestlers were disqualified for being passive);
• 1973, 5th place , EM in Helsinki , GR, S, with victories over Aslan Aslan, Turkey , and Bruno Jutzeler, Switzerland , and defeats against Nikolai Balboschin , USSR , and Nicolae Martinescu , Romania ;
• 1974, 4th place , World Championships in Katowice , GR, SS, with victories over Ömer Topuz , Turkey, and Einar Gundersen, Norway , and defeats against Schota Morschiladze , USSR, and Alexandar Tomow , Bulgaria;
• 1975, 8th place , EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , GR, SS, with victory over Arne Robertsson, Sweden , and defeat against Roman Codreanu , Romania, and Topuz

German championships

• 1970, 3rd place, GR, Hs, behind Günter Kowalewski, Annen, and Ernst Knoll , Ziegelhausen ;
• 1971, 1st place, GR, S, ahead of Alfons Hecher , Hallbergmoos , and Heinz Eichelbaum , Witten ;
• 1973, 1st place, GR, S, ahead of Pedro Pawlidis , Aalen , and Heinz Essig;
• 1974, 2nd place, GR, SS, behind Wilfried Dietrich , Schifferstadt , and in front of Gerd Volz , Ludwigshafen am Rhein ;
• 1975, 1st place, GR, SS, ahead of Richard Wolff , Bad Reichenhall , and Alfons Hecher

swell

• Athletics magazine from 1970 to 1976
• Hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer publishing house , Niedernberg , 1991, pages 181, 220 u. 221

Web links

• Profile of Lorenz Hecher at the Institute for Applied Training Science