Lothar Metz (wrestler)
Lothar Metz medal table |
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GDR | ||
Olympic games | ||
silver | 1960 Rome | medium |
bronze | 1964 Tokyo | medium |
gold | 1968 Mexico City | medium |
World Championship | ||
bronze | 1958 Budapest | medium |
bronze | 1971 Sofia | medium |
European Championship | ||
silver | 1967 Minsk | medium |
silver | 1970 Berlin | medium |
Lothar Metz (born January 16, 1939 in Meerane ) is a former German wrestler . He was Olympic champion in 1968 in Greco-Roman. Middleweight style.
Career
Lothar Metz wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style. His strength was ground fighting, for which he had developed new training methods.
He grew up in Auerbach in the Ore Mountains and started wrestling at the age of 14. Before he was active in athletics , cycling and ski jumping . In Auerbach, a place with decades of wrestling tradition, he found the first coach who led him to the youth championship of the GDR in 1956 . He made rapid progress and at the age of 19 was able to qualify for the World Championships in Budapest in 1958. There he took third place at the age of 19 and was only defeated by the multiple Soviet world champion Giwi Kartosia and Horst Hess from Dortmund . In 1959 he switched to ASK Vorwärts Rostock , where he was offered the best training conditions and new professional prospects as an officer in the People's Navy in the GDR. In 1960 he wrestled for the first time at the Olympic Games in the all-German team. In the qualification for it he had prevailed against Horst Hess. His biggest victory in the Olympic tournament was probably that over the Soviet champion Nikolai Chuchalov . In the following years he achieved good results at the international championships, but he was denied a great victory. Mostly he failed because of the then very strong wrestling Soviet athletes, such as Wassili Zenin , Walentin Olenik and Rimantas Bagdonas . Lothar Metz delivered great fights to the Turk Tevfik Kış , multiple world champion, the Yugoslav Olympic champion Branislav Simić and the outstanding wrestler in this weight class Valeri Resanzew from the USSR. At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo , Metz won the bronze medal. His big day came at the 1968 Olympic Games , where he became Olympic champion after successful fights and defeating Tevfik Kış . At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , Lothar Metz tried again, it was his fourth game, to do well. However, he was already defeated in the preliminary fights to the Turkish Tari and the Yugoslav Josip Čorak and could no longer place himself in the front field.
Lothar Metz had to retire very early due to hearing loss.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Wed = middleweight, the weight limit of the middleweight was changed several times and was most recently at 90 kg, all competitions in the Greco-Roman style)
year | space | competition | Weight class | |
1958 | 3. | "Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig | medium | behind Rekow, USSR a. Siegried Neufang, GDR |
1958 | 3. | World Cup in Budapest | medium | with victories over René Schiermeyer , France , Witner, Netherlands, Souminen, Finland and defeats against Horst Heß , Dortmund , Dimitar Dobrew , Bulgaria and Giwi Kartosia , USSR |
1959 | 2. | Intern. Tournament in Greiz | medium | behind Per-Olov Ytterström, Sweden a. before Siegfried Neufang |
1960 | silver | OS in Rome | medium | with victories over Marciano Magnani , Italy, Raymond Schummer , Luxembourg, Russell Camilleri , USA, Nikolai Tschutschalow , USSR and a draw against Jiří Kormaník , Czechoslovakia a . Ion Țăranu , Romania |
1961 | 5. | World Cup in Yokohama | medium | with victory over Camilleri, draw against gegenăranu and defeat against Wassili Zenin , USSR |
1964 | bronze | OS in Tokyo | medium | with victories over Gheorghe Popovici , Romania, Czesław Kwieciński , Poland, Stig Persson , Sweden , Krali Bimbalow , Bulgaria and defeats against Valentin Olenik , USSR a. Jiří Kormaník |
1965 | 5. | World Cup in Tampere | medium | with victories over Wieser, Finland, Pötsch, Austria, Pinter, Hungary and defeat against Rimantas Bagdonas , USSR |
1966 | 4th | EM in Essen | medium | with victories over Cucic, Yugoslavia , Smolinski, Poland, Anatoli Kirow , USSR, Tsintsaroff, Bulgaria and a draw against Tevfik Kış , Turkey and Stig Persson, Sweden |
1967 | 3. | "Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Moscow | medium | behind Alexander Jurkewitsch u. Valentin Olenik, both USSR, before Petar Krumow , Bulgaria, Nikolai Tarasow, USSR a. Branislav Simić |
1967 | 2. | EM in Minsk | medium | with victory over Kosakiewitsch, Denmark a. undecided against Tevfik Kış and Alexander Jurkewitsch, USSR |
1967 | 8th. | World Cup in Bucharest | medium | with victory over Jiří Kormaník u. Tie against Popovici and Branislav Simić, Yugoslavia |
1967 | 2. | Pre-Olympic Games in Mexico City | medium | behind Alexander Yurkewitsch u. before Zinzarow, Bulgaria a. László Sillai , Hungary |
1968 | 1. | Intern. Tournament in Zella-Mehlis | medium | before Bertil Nyström , Sweden a. Petar Krumov |
1968 | 3. | Intern. Tournament in Warsaw | medium | behind Czesław Kwieciński u. Smolinski, both Poles |
1968 | 9. | EM in Västerås | medium | with victories over Kosakiewitsch a. undecided against László Sillai, Hungary, Nyström, Sweden and Nicolae Neguț , Romania |
1968 | gold | OS in Mexico City | medium | with victories over Tevfik Kış, Kiraki, Japan, Baugham, USA, Överby, Norway, Nicolae Neguț, Romania, and a draw against Branislav Simić |
1970 | 3. | Tournament in East Berlin | medium | behind Nikolow, Bulgaria a. Panteleev, USSR |
1970 | 2. | Klippan tournament | medium | behind Valentin Oleinik u. before Olsson, Sweden a. Dieter Heuer , GDR |
1970 | 2. | EM in Berlin | medium | with victories over Nilsson, Sweden, Philippe, Luxembourg, Josip Čorak , Yugoslavia and a draw against Valeri Resanzew , USSR |
1971 | 1. | "Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Berlin | medium | before Percsi, Hungary a. Jürgen Heuer |
1971 | 3. | World Cup in Sofia | medium | with victories over Perczi, Hungary, Kowalewski, Witten, Ksroni, Lebanon, Czesław Kwieciński, Poland, Baugham, USA a. Losses against Stoyan Nikolov , Bulgaria and Valery Resanzew |
1972 | 4th | Klippan tournament | Semi-difficult | behind Stojan Nikolow , Bulgaria, Omar Bliadse , USSR u. Nicolae Neguț, Romania |
1972 | 10. | OS in Munich | medium | with a draw against Czesław Kwieciński and defeats against Tani, Japan and Josip Čorak |
Championships of the GDR
Lothar Metz won the East German middleweight championship in 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 and in the light heavyweight division in 1971 and 1973.
Awards (selection)
- 1960: Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
- 1968: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
swell
- International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig
- One hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer Verlag, Niedernberg, 1991
- 1972 yearbook of the German Wrestling Federation, Karlsruhe, 1972
- Website www.sport-komplett.de
- various issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1958 to 1972
literature
- Short biography for: Metz, Lothar . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Profile of Lothar Metz at the Institute for Applied Training Science
- Lothar Metz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Metz, Lothar |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German wrestler |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1939 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Meerane |