Peter Döring (wrestler)

Peter Döring (born August 14, 1943 in Ticino ) is a former German wrestler .

Career

Peter Döring started as a teenager with rings . Due to his talent, he was soon delegated to SG Dynamo Luckenwalde . In 1964 he made lasting attention when he was GDR junior champion in free style in the light heavyweight division in Luckenwalde. In the seniors he was in 1966 with a 3rd place in the light heavyweight division for the first time on the podium at the GDR championships.

Between 1968 and 1970 he represented the GDR at four international championships. He always achieved good results with places four to six. It started in 1968 at the European Championships in Skopje , where he took an excellent 4th place in the middleweight division. He won and lost two fights each. In the same year he was also at the Olympic Games in Mexico at the start and reached the 6th place in the middleweight division. At the European Championships in Sofia in 1969 Peter Döring came in a good 5th place and at the European Championships in 1970 in Berlin he again reached 4th place, although he remained undefeated with one win and three undecided fights, but due to his fault points after the 4th round had to be eliminated.

After 1970, Peter Döring was no longer considered by the GDR Association for international championships.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championship, F = free style, GR = Greco-Roman style, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight)

• 1964, 2nd place, intern. Tournament in Gelenau / Erzgeb. , GR, Hs, behind Wismer, DDR u. before Markowski, GDR
• 1967, 4th place , tournament in Tbilisi , F, Wed, behind Tschokwrebow u. Surikow, bde. Soviet Union a . Maajit Jagili, Iran ;
• 1968, 4th place , EM in Skopje , F, Wed, with victories over Etienne Martinetti, Switzerland a . Heinz Sperling , FRG a . Defeats against Prodan Gardschew , Bulgaria a . Francisc Balla , Romania ;
• 1968, 6th place , OS in Mexico , F, Wed, with a victory over Ortiz Hernandez, Guatemala and defeats against Jigdschidyn Mönchbat , Mongolia a . Hüseyin Gürsoy, Turkey ;
• 1969, 5th place , EM in Sofia , F, Hs, with victories over Kazimir Valach, Czechoslovakia a . Hassan Akyol, Turkey, a tie against Delchew, Bulgaria u. a loss to Gennady Strachow , USSR ;
• 1970, 4th place , EM in Berlin , F, Hs, with a victory over Ion Marton, Romania, and with a draw against Ramadan Akhmedov, Bulgaria, Güseyin Gürsoy u. Károly Bajkó , Hungary ;
• 1972, 1st place , tournament in Växjö , F, Hs, in front of Roland Andersson and Börge Nilsson, bde. Sweden ;
• 1972, 4th place , "Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Zella-Mehlis , F, Hs, behind Anatoli Prokoptschuk , USSR, Klaus Gierke u. Günter Spindler , bde. GDR

GDR championships

• 1966, 3rd place, F, Wed, behind Günther Bauch , SC Chemie Halle u. Erhard Kaufmann, SC Leipzig ,
• 1968, 1st place, F, Wed, before Jürgen Wiechmann , SC Leipzig a. Siegfried Handrock, ASK Forward Rostock ,
• 1969, 2nd place, F, Hs, behind Günther Bauch u. before Siegfried Handrock,
• 1970, 1st place, F, Hs, in front of Günter Bauch u. Reinhard Vielitz, SG Dynamo Luckenwalde

swell

• Div. Issues of the specialist magazine " Athletik " from 1964 to 1972,
• "Hundred Years of Wrestling in Germany", Verlag "Der Ringer", Niedernberg, 1991,
• Website "www.sport-komplett.de"