Lutz Remus

Lutz Remus (born September 30, 1960 in Schmölln ) is a former German wrestler . He was the 1985 European Featherweight Free Style Champion.

Career

Lutz Remus started doing gymnastics as a teenager , but later switched to wrestling . After the first major successes in the youth field, he was delegated to SC Leipzig and trained there by the coaches Adolf Franke and Uwe Neumeister to become an excellent freestyle wrestler. In 1981 he was the first time GDR featherweight champion. To this success he added four more GDR championship titles by 1988.

His international wrestling career began in 1980 when he finished 4th at the European Junior Championships in Bursa, Turkey . On the international mat it was only used again at the European Championships in Jönköping in 1984 . He won a fight there, but had to be happy with the 7th place after defeats against Gerard Santoro from France and Viktor Alexejew from the USSR .

Just one year later, Lutz Remus celebrated the greatest success of his career at the European Championships in Leipzig. Cheered on by 4,500 enthusiastic spectators, he defeated the Soviet athlete Siradschudin Ajubow in one of the Leipzig exhibition halls in the final and became European featherweight champion.

After this success, Lutz Remus only got one job at a European championship. He took 5th place in Athens in 1986 . Lutz Remus did not start at the Olympic Games or World Championships.

After the political change in the GDR, Lutz Remus was the coach of the Saxon Wrestling Association in Leipzig until 2005.

International success

(EM = European Championship, F = free style, Fe = featherweight, at that time up to 62 kg body weight)

• 1980, 4th place , European Junior Championships in Bursa , F, Fe, behind Timur Hasukow , USSR , Halif Alkin , Turkey and Dimitri Redualkow , Bulgaria ;
• 1983, 1st place , "Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig , F, Fe, ahead of Mike Land , USA and Aurel Șuteu , Romania ;
• 1984, 7th place , EM in Jönköping , F Fe, with a victory over Jorge Bocanegra , Spain and defeats against Gerard Santoro , France and Viktor Alexejew , USSR;
• 1984, 3rd place , "Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig, F, Fe, behind Bong Li, North Korea and Ramirez, Cuba and in front of Pobeschinow , GDR, Myong Bok , North Korea and Josef Schwendtner , CSSR ;
• 1985, 4th place , tournament in Clermont-Ferrand , F, Fe, behind Siradschudin Ajubow , USSR, Gery Bohaty , Canada and Marian Skubacz , Poland and in front of Ralf Lyding and Günter Laier , both FRG ;
• 1985, 1st place , EM in Leipzig, F, Fe, with victories over Kalaigidis, Greece , Valentin Sawow , Bulgaria, Antonio La Bruna , Italy and Siradschudin Ajubow ;
• 1986, 3rd place , Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Freiburg im Breisgau , F, Fe, behind Marian Skubacz and Tolmatschow, USSR and in front of Culak, ČSSR, Klaus Laier and Jörg Helmdach , both FRG;
• 1986, 5th place , EM in Athens , F, Fe, behind Khazar Isajew , USSR, Valentin Sawow, Marian Skubacz and Jozsef Orban , Hungary and in front of Ludwig Küng , Switzerland

GDR championships

• 1981, 1st place, F, Fe, ahead of Hoffer, SG Dynamo Luckenwalde , and Erhard Pocher , SC Motor Jena
• 1982, 3rd place, F, Fe, behind Stiegler, SC Leipzig and Geske, BSG Motor Markneukirchen
• 1983, 1st place, F, Fe, ahead of Tarangul, ASK Forward Frankfurt and Mehl, SC Motor Jena
• 1984, 1st place, F, Fe, ahead of Peuker, Jena and Jablonski, SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
• 1985, 1st place, F, Fe, ahead of Tarangul and Pobeschinow, SC Motor Jena
• 1986, 3rd place, F, Fe, behind Frank Wolff, SG Dynamo Luckenwalde and Hans Gstöttner , SC Chemie Halle
• 1987, 3rd place, F, Fe, behind Karsten Polky and Leps, both SG Dynamo Luckenwalde
• 1988, 1st place, F, Fe, ahead of Verniest and Seikrit, both SC Leipzig

literature

• Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 5/1984, page 11, 5/1985, page 12 and 5/1986, page 6
• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes, medals and biographies. 2nd updated edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-538-4 , pp. 456-457.

Web links

• Profile of Lutz Remus at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Website www.sport-komplett.de