Peter Thätner

Peter Thätner (born November 21, 1963 ) is a former German wrestler , vice world champion of the juniors 1979 in the Greco-Roman style in the lightweight.

Career

Thätner comes from Ticino near Rostock and started wrestling there as a teenager. After his great talent for this sport was discovered, he was delegated to ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt and attended the sports school in Frankfurt (Oder) until 1981. At ASK Vorwärts he was trained by trainer Werner Heppner to be an excellent wrestler in the Greco-Roman style.

He was already very successful as a junior. In 1979 Thätner was runner-up in the junior lightweight division in Haparanda, behind Sölve Halling from Sweden , but ahead of Alexander Kudrjawzew from the USSR . In the same year he caused a sensation at the GDR championships when he was GDR lightweight champion in front of his experienced and very successful club mate Heinz-Helmut Wehling .

On the international wrestling mat he could not quite achieve the successes in the following years that would have been expected from him after the great successes of 1979. At the European Junior Championships in 1980 in Bursa, he only came 6th in the lightweight category. The 6th place at the 1980 European Championships in Prievidza among the seniors, where after victories over Lionel Lacaze from France and Istvan Peter from Hungary and a defeat against Tapio Sipilä from Finland against the Soviet athlete Anatoli Kravtschenko, he fought a good fight . In this fight neither of the wrestlers was able to achieve a rating, so that both had to be disqualified.

At the European Championships in 1981 in Gothenburg Thätner took 7th place and at the European Championships in 1982 in Varna he came in a good 5th place. Peter Thätner was not used at the Olympic Games or World Championships.

In the mid-1980s, Thätner ended his international wrestling career. In the national field he was still an active wrestler for a few years and even wrestled for a few years in the Rostock Bundesliga team after German reunification after 1990. His son Marcus Thätner followed in his footsteps and is today one of the best European wrestlers in the Greco-Roman style in lightweight.

International success

(EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Le = lightweight, We = welterweight, back then up to 68 kg or 74 kg body weight)

• 1978, 2nd place , tournament in Havlikov Brod / CSSR , GR, Le, behind Arsenjew, USSR a . in front of Pirowski, Bulgaria ;
• 1979, 2nd place , Junior World Championships in Haparanda , GR, Le, behind Sölve Halling , Sweden a . before Alexander Kudrjawzew , USSR, Laszlo Benko, Hungary a . Bernhard Brucker, FRG ;
• 1979, 1st place , tournament in Clermont-Ferrand , GR, Le, in front of Ferenc Csaba, Hungary a. Lionel Lacaze , France ;
• 1979, 2nd place , "Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig , GR, Le, behind Czeslaw Kowallik, Poland a . before Sergej Andrejew, USSR, Erich Klaus , FRG a. Tapio Sipilä , Finland ;
• 1980, 6th place , Junior European Championship in Bursa , GR, Le, behind Manuel Apikjan, USSR, Zvetan Filtschew, Bulgaria, Sölve Halling, Sümer Kocak, Turkey a . Klaus Müller , FRG;
• 1980, 6th place , EM in Prievidza , GR, Le, with victories over Lionel Lacaze a. Istvan Peter u. a loss to Tapio Sipilä; in the match between Thätner and Anatoly Kravchenko , USSR, both wrestlers were disqualified for being passive;
• 1981, 7th place , EM in Göteobrg , GR, Le, with a victory over Philippe Vidal, Spain a . Defeats against Ferenc Kocsis , Hungary a. Andrzej Supron , Poland;
• 1981, 3rd place , Universiade in Bucharest , GR, We, behind Alexander Kudrjawzew u. Gheorghe Ciobotaru , Romania ;
• 1982, 5th place , EM in Varna , GR, Le, behind Gennadi Jermilow , USSR, Ștefan Negrișan , Romania, Gerry Svensson , Sweden a. Istvan Peter u. in front of Rumen Tzenew, Bulgaria;
• 1984, 1st place , "Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig, GR, We, ahead of Andreas Lemke , GDR, Limajew, USSR, Roger Gößner , FRG, Fojtik, Poland a. Jürgen Anke, GDR

GDR championships

• 1979, 1st place, GR, Le, ahead of Heinz-Helmut Wehling , u. Meyer, bde. ASK forward Frankfurt ,
• 1980, 1st place, GR, Le, ahead of Jürgen Anke, ASK forward Frankfurt a. Mitzner, SC Leipzig ,
• 1981, 1st place, GR, We, ahead of Krause, SG Dynamo Luckenwalde u. Ralf Müller, SC Motor Zella-Mehlis ,
• 1982, 1st place, GR, Le, before Jürgen Anke u. Mandelkow, ASK Forward Frankfurt,
• 1987, 3rd place, GR, We, behind Andreas Lemke u. Mirko Jahn , bde. SG Dynamo Luckenwalde

swell

• 1) Trade journal "Der Ringer", numbers, 5/1980, pages 7/8, 4/1981, page 7, 5/6/1982, pages 5/6,
• 2) Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• 3) "www.sport-komplett.de" with the results of the GDR wrestling championships

Web link

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