Lothar Schneider (wrestler)

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Lothar Schneider
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Lothar Schneider (born October 3, 1939 in Dessau ; † March 15, 2019 there ) was a German wrestler .

Career

Lothar Schneider grew up in Dessau and started wrestling there. After he had become GDR youth champion (Spartakiadesieger) in wrestling several times, he was delegated to SC Lokomotive Leipzig because of his talent , whose wrestling section was transferred to SC Leipzig in 1963 . There he made rapid progress and prevailed in 1964 in the domestic German qualification for the Olympic Games in featherweight, Greco-Roman style. At the Olympic Games, his first start in an international championship, he still had to learn the hard way, but a year later he was third at the World Championships in Tampere / Finland . An excellent fourth place at the European Championships in Essen in 1966 rounded off this good result. In the following years he could not place himself as far up front, but delivered excellent fights against such world class wrestlers as Simion Popescu , Branislav Martinović , Martti Laakso and Roman Rurua .

In 1969 he ended his international career and returned to the Dessau Wrestling Club, where he became section leader and trainer. In 1995 he became 1st chairman of the newly founded 1st Dessau Wrestling Club. Lothar Schneider was a steel caster by profession, later an engineer for railway technology and finally a vocational school teacher.

He died in March 2019 after a serious illness.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, featherweight, then up to 62 kg body weight, all competitions in the Greco-Roman style)

year space competition Weight class
1964 2. Intern. Tournament in Gelenau / Erzgeb. Light behind Eckhard Schulz , GDR, in front of Fleischer, GDR
1964 15th OS in Tokyo feather with a draw against Branislav Martinović , Yugoslavia and Dinko Petrow, Bulgaria and one defeat against Kyösti Lehtonen , Finland
1965 2. "Dan Kolew" tournament in Haskovo feather behind Stojanow, Bulgaria a. in front of Stoicho Kaltschew , Bulgaria
1965 3. World Cup in Tampere feather with victories over Poul Bengstsson, Denmark , Taxarchis Paissios, Greece , Roger Mannhard, France , Clemens Hutter, Switzerland , a draw against Jiří Švec , Czechoslovakia , and a defeat against Juri Grigorjew, Soviet Union
1966 4th EM in Essen feather with victories over Stoio Kaltschew, Robert Sonie, France, draw against Simion Popescu , Romania, Paissios and Czeslaw Korzeń, Poland
1967 11. EM in Minsk feather after defeats against Bernhard Knitter, Poland and Serzhik Agamow, Soviet Union
1967 10. World Cup in Bucharest feather after a draw with Martti Laakso, Finland, Imre Baracsi, Hungary and Czeslaw Korzeń
1968 8th. OS in Mexico City feather with victory over Leonard Dutz, Belgium , a draw against Simion Popescu and Martti Laakso and a loss against Roman Rurua

GDR championships

Lothar Schneider was GDR featherweight champion in the Greco-Roman style in 1965, 1966 and 1968.

Individual evidence

  • One hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer publishing house , Niedernberg 1991, pages 198 and 234,
  • Trade magazines athletics (BRD) u. Heavy athletics (GDR),
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
  • Website "www.sport-komplett.de"
  • Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of March 29, 2019 "Lothar Schneider remains a legend"

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personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH 15th March 2019
Place of death Dessau