Peter Syring

Peter Syring (born May 6, 1956 in Halle (Saale) ) is a former German wrestler . He was a two-time medalist at the European Free Style Middleweight Championships.

Career

Peter Syring started wrestling as a teenager in his hometown Halle (Saale) . At SC Chemie Halle he was trained to be an excellent freestyle wrestler. At the age of 20 he was 1976 GDR runner-up in welterweight and in 1979 he won his first East German middleweight championship.

In 1977 he was used for the first time at an international championship, the European championship in Bursa, Turkey . He started there in the welterweight division and came in a good 5th place. He finished 5th at the 1980 European Championships in Prievidza , where he also managed to beat the strong Turkish Reşit Karabacak .

In 1981 he reached 3rd place at the European Championships in Łódź, the first medal win at an international championship. A success that he was able to repeat in Varna the following year . In 1981 he also achieved the best placement at a world championship with a 5th place. In Skopje he won it a. a. about the top Japanese wrestler Akira Ōta and the experienced Hungarian István Kovács , who was one of Adolf Seger's toughest opponents in the late 1970s .

Peter Syring completed his international career with a 4th place at the European Championships in Jönköping . At this championship his victories over Josef Lohyna from Czechoslovakia and Lukman Jabrailow from the Soviet Union were particularly noteworthy. In the fight for the medals, however, he lost against the German champion Reiner Trik .

Peter Syring ended his international wrestling career in 1985, but could still be seen on the national level for a few years on the wrestling mat and after the political change in the GDR after 1990 he also started for KSV Aalen .

International success

(WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, We = welterweight, Mi = middleweight, back then up to 74 kg or 82 kg body weight)

• 1976, 2nd place, European Junior Championships in Poznań, F, We, behind Georgi Makasarishvili , USSR and ahead of Alexandar Nanew , Bulgaria ;
• 1977, 5th place , EM in Bursa , F, We, with victories over Olgut Reyfet, Cyprus and Janos Kocsis, Hungary and defeats against Peter Marta , USSR and Emilian Christian, Romania ;
• 1979, 2nd place , Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Freiburg im Breisgau , F, Wed, behind Iwan Danko, USSR and in front of Jan Mazur , Poland , Willibald Liebgott and Adolf Seger , vol. FRG ;
• 1979, 2nd place , "Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig , F, Wed, behind István Kovács , Hungary and in front of Günter Rieger, Volker Dürer, Armin Weier and Hans-Peter Franz , all GDR ;
• 1979, 7th place , EM in Bucharest , F, Wed, after defeats against Efraim Kamberow , Bulgaria and Oleg Alexejew , USSR;
• 1980, 5th place , EM in Prievidza , F, Wed, with victories over Pawel Sabo, CSSR , Reşit Karabacak , Turkey and one defeat against Vasile Tigana, Romania, then retired due to injury;
• 1981, 1st place , tournament in Bratislave , F, Wed, in front of Armin Weier and Leszek Ciota , Poland;
• 1981, 3rd place , EM in Łódź , F, Wed. with victories over Michel Mege, France , Alfred Sutter, FRG and Leszek Ciota and a defeat against Efraim Kamberow
• 1981, 5th place , World Championships in Skopje , F, Wed, with victories over Jimmy Martinetti, Switzerland , Akira Ōta , Japan and Istvan Kovacs, and defeats against Efraim Kamberow and Dzewegiin Düwtschin , Mongolia;
• 1982, 3rd place , EM in Varna , F, Wed, behind Efraim Kamberow and Wladimir Modossian , USSR and in front of Leszek Ciota, Ricardo Nicolini, Italy and Marin Stancio, Romania;
• 1982, 11th place , World Championships in Edmonton , F, Wed, winner: Taimuras Dzgojew , USSR ahead of Efraim Kamberow and David Schultz , USA ;
• 1983, 3rd place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg , F, Wed, behind Taimuras Dsgojew and Bodo Lukowski , FRG;
• 1983, 2nd place , “Werner Seelenbinder” tournament in Leipzig, F, Wed, behind Hans-Peter Franz and in front of Duane Goldman, USA ;
• 1984, 2nd place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Freiburg im Breisgau , F, Wed, behind Chris Rinke , Canada and in front of A. Suchanow, USSR, Dieter Otto and Wolfgang Otto, bde. FRG;
• 1984, 4th place , EM in Jönköping , F, M i, with victories over Josef Lohyna , CSSR, Stefan Kurpas, England , Gabor Toth, Hungary and Lukman Dschabrailow , USSR and one defeat against Reiner Trik , FRG

GDR championships

• 1976, 2nd place, F, We, behind Reinhold Steingräber , ASK forward Frankfurt and in front of Leuschner, SG Dynamo Luckenwalde ,
• 1979, 1st place, F, Wed, in front of Armin Weier , SG Dynamo Luckenwalde and Michalke, SC Leipzig ,
• 1980, 1st place, F, Wed, in front of Hans-Peter Franz , SG Dynamo Luckenwalde and Günter Rieger, SC Chemie Halle ,
• 1981, 1st place, F, Wed, in front of Hans-Peter Franz and Kugel, SC Motor Jena ,
• 1982, 3rd place, F, Wed, behind Kugel and Günter Rieger,
• 1983, 3rd place, F, Wed, behind Hans-Peter Franz and Armin Weier,
• 1984, 1st place, F, Wed, ahead of Hans-Peter Franz and Günter Rieger

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer from 1976 to 1991,
• One hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer publishing house , Niedernberg, 1991, pages 203 and 240
• Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig ,
• Website www.sport-komplett.de with the results of the GDR championships

Web links

• Profile of Peter Syring at the Institute for Applied Training Science