Olaf Koschnitzke

Olaf Koschnitzke (born September 12, 1966 in Grevesmühlen ) is a former German wrestler.

Career

Olaf Koschnitzke began as a teenager with rings . After initial successes in the junior division, he was delegated to ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt , where as a member of the NVA he had the best training conditions and in Maik Bullmann an excellent training partner. He started exclusively in the Greco-Roman style. He made his debut at international championships in 1986 at the European Junior Championships in Malmö , where he came in an excellent 2nd place in the middleweight division.

In 1987 he was first used at the European Championships in Tampere with the seniors. He gave a good performance there and fought against Harri Koskela from Finland for the bronze medal. In this fight it was 3: 3 2 seconds before the end, when the referees gave Olaf the 3rd warning and made Koskela the disqualification winner. In the other international championships or tournaments in 1987 he could not place in the front field.

His good 5th place at the 1988 European Championships in Kolbotn and his 7th place at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul deserve all respect . But it already became clear that the way to the absolute top of the world would be difficult for him.

In 1989 he celebrated his greatest international success by winning the bronze medal at the European Middleweight Championship in Oulu . He also trained a lot of weight. A method that, as it is very exhausting, he could not always use. In addition, after the German reunification in the middleweight division, Thomas Zander from Aalen was a tough competitor who finally prevailed against him in the fight for the starting place at the international championships. The light heavyweight division was occupied by world champion Maik Bullmann.

Olaf Koschnitzke therefore ended his international career after 1990.

The results of the championships and some of the other tournaments he played are shown in the following sections.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, then up to 82 kg or 90 kg body weight)

• 1986, 2nd place , Junior EM in Malmö , GR, Hs, behind Tengis Teodoradse, USSR a . before Iwajlo Jordanow, Bulgaria , György Rizmayer, Hungary a . Goran Kasum, Yugoslavia ;
• 1987, 4th place , EM in Tampere , GR, Hs, behind Vladimir Popow , USSR, Atanas Komtschew , Bulgaria a. Harri Koskela , Finland a . before Jean-François Court, France a . Ilie Matei , Romania ;
• 1987, 16th place , World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand , GR, Hs, winner: Popow ahead of Sándor Major , Hungary a. Komchev,
• 1987, 10th place , FILA Grand Prix tournament in Budapest , GR, Hs, winner: Popow in front of Komtschew a. Guillermo Cruz, Cuba ;
• 1988, 3rd place , Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Neuss , GR, Hs, behind Potapow u. Lajos Szegvári, Hungary a. before Jindřich Durčák, ČSSR, Major u. Andreas Steinbach , FR Germany;
• 1988, 5th place , EM in Kolbotn / Norway , GR, Hs, behind Iwajlo Jordanow, Major, Pawel Potapow , USSR a. Bernhard Ban, Yugoslavia a. before Georgios Pikilidis , Greece ;
• 1988, 7th place , OS in Seoul , GR, Hs, behind Komtschew, Koskela, Popow, Christer Gulldén , Sweden , Steinbach u. Franz Pitschmann , Austria ;
• 1989, 3rd place , EM in Oulu , GR, Wed, behind Michail Mamiaschwili , USSR a. Piotr Stępień , Poland a . before Tibor Komáromi , Hungary , Stig Kleven , Norway a. Sorin Herțea , Romania;
• 1990, 6th place , Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Saarbrücken , GR, Wed, behind Mamiaschwili, Kasum, Timo Niemei, Finland, Tino Hempel , GDR a. Jouko Salimäki , Finland;
• 1990, 7th place , EM in Posen , GR, Hs, behind Potapow, Marek Kraszewski, Poland, Komáromi, Jordanow, Steinbach u. Pikilidis;
• 1990, 7th place , World Cup in Rome , GR, Wed, behind Péter Farkas , Hungary, Mamiaschwili, Kasum, Niemi, Pavel Frinta , Romania a. John Morgan , USA

GDR championships

• 1986, 1st place, GR, Hs, ahead of Uwe Wittuhn, Frankfurt (Oder) a. Spatschke, Plauen ,
• 1987, 2nd place, behind Torsten Holiday, SC Leipzig a . in front of Maik Bullmann, Frankfurt (Oder),
• 1988, 1st place, GR, Hs, ahead of Maik Bullmann u. Torsten holiday

German championships

• 1993, 1st place, Gr, Hs, in front of Rüdiger Glassl, Kelheim u. Bernd Fröhlich, Schaafheim

swell

• One hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer Verlag , Niedernberg , 1991
• Trade journal Der Ringer from 1986 to 1991
• International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
• Overview of German u. GDR championships at www.sport-komplett.de