Lothar Lippa

Lothar Lippa (* 1936 ) is a former German wrestler .

Career

Lothar Lippa learned to wrestle at SC Chemie Halle-Leuna . He wrestled exclusively in free style. In 1954 he took second place both in the all-German youth championship and in the GDR youth championship. In 1956 he won his first title at a GDR senior middleweight championship. Lothar Lippa had his first important international assignment at the freestyle world tournament in Sofia in 1958 , which was held instead of a world championship. There he took an excellent 3rd place. He also celebrated a great success at the World Championships in Tehran in 1959 , when he again took 3rd place in the middleweight division. He was the first freestyle wrestler from the GDR to win a medal at an international championship.

In 1960 he did not succeed in asserting himself in the elimination for the Olympic Games in Rome . He was only the third winner behind Georg Utz from Kornwestheim and Johann Sterr also Munich- Neuaubing. In the same year he wrestled in an international match between the GDR and Sweden against Hans Antonsson . After that he no longer appeared.

successes

International success

(WM = world championship, F = freestyle, Wed = middleweight, back then up to 79 kg body weight)

• 1956, 2nd place , tournament at the II. German Gymnastics and Sports Festival in Leipzig , F, Hs, behind Dieter Rauchbahch , Halle-Leuna and in front of Rudolf Weise, Chemie Buna Schkopau
• 1957, 3rd place , tournament in Jena , F, Wed, behind Tatraschwili, USSR and Szekely, Hungary ;
• 1958, 3rd place , world tournament in Sofia , F, Wed, behind Hasan Güngör , Turkey and Giorgi Schirtladse , USSR and in front of Prodan Gardschew , Bulgaria , Soroury, Iran and Takashi Nagai, Japan ;
• 1959, 3rd place , World Cup in Tehran , F, Wed, with victories over Charles Berthoud, Switzerland , Mihammad Faiz, Pakistan and Nagai and defeats against Géza Hollósi , Hungary and Giorgi Schirtladse

GDR championships

• 1956, 1st place, F, Wed, ahead of Pötsch, Jena and Rübekeil, SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
• 1957, 1st place, G, Wed;
• 1958, 1st place, F, Wed, ahead of Müller, Leipzig and Fröhlich, Neubrandenburg
• 1960, 1st place, F, Wed, ahead of Wiechmann, Leipzig and Fiedler, Leipzig

Web links

• Profile of Lothar Lippa at the Institute for Applied Training Science