Ralf Lyding

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Ralf Lyding medal table

Wrestler

Germany
European Championship
gold 1990 Poznan feather
bronze 1991 Stuttgart feather
Junior European Championship
bronze 1984 Slaghoven feather

Ralf Lyding (born September 8, 1964 in Witten ; † February 26, 2019 in Wetter ) was a German wrestler . He was European featherweight champion in free style in 1990.

Career

Ralf Lyding began in 1973 when KSV Witten , the club where he remained until his career end with the rings . He benefited from the good youth work that was done in this club under the direction of trainers Klaus Rost and Rainer Brockhoff. As early as 1977 he was at the German school championship in Gersweiler (today C-youth) in the Greco-Roman. Style in the class up to 34 kg body weight, 2nd place. As a 16-year-old Ralf Lyding started in 1981 at the German senior championships in free style in paper weight (up to 48 kg body weight) and achieved a good 3rd place. In 1982 he became German A youth champion (age group up to 18 years of age) in free style in bantamweight and in 1983 German junior champion in featherweight. Ralf Lyding simply did not want to win the title at the German senior championships. He took second place six times and third place four times. But in 1993 it still worked. He finally became German champion in front of his club mates Jörg Helmdach and Christian Graupeter.

In 1983 Ralf Lyding was already German team champion with KSV Witten.

Ralf Lyding started his international career in 1984. He finished at the Junior European Championships in Slaghaven in Denmark in the free style, on which he now concentrated, an excellent 3rd place in featherweight. In 1985 he made his senior debut at the World Championships in Budapest. He started there at the World Featherweight Championship. After a victory over the Greek Panagiotis Kalaitzidis he lost in his next two fights and remained unplaced.

In 1986 Ralf Lyding started at both the European Championships in Athens and the World Championships in Budapest . In Athens he finished 7th in featherweight and in Budapest he reached an excellent 6th place. In Athens in particular, an even better placement would have been possible if he hadn't surprisingly lost against the Swiss Ludwig Küng , overly motivated .

Something similar happened to him at the 1987 World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand . After defeating the Chinese Li Yianji, he lost to Karsten Polky from the GDR and Didier Vidal from France due to his risky way of wrestling and only reached 18th place.

In 1988 and 1989 Ralf Lyding had to give way to his club mate Jörg Helmdach on the international wrestling mat. It was only used again at the 1990 European Championships in Poznań, now trained by Michael Kuhn . He achieved the greatest success of his career there, as he became European champion with five wins. In the final he defeated Karsten Polky with 4: 2 points. Ralf Lyding disappointed at the World Championships in Tokyo that same year. Two wins he achieved there faced three defeats. The result was a 10th place, which did not meet his expectations.

At the European Championships in Stuttgart in 1991 , Ralf Lyding once again showed excellent fights. However, he missed the final fight there because of a narrow point defeat against Metin Kaplan from Turkey, whom he had defeated in 1990, but defeated the Italian Giovanni Schillaci in the fight for the European Championship bronze medal . At the 1991 World Cup in Varna , he lost his first fight against the best freestyle wrestler of those years, the American John Smith (1:10) and also his second fight with 0: 1 points against the Turkish Ismail Faikoglu and ended up being beaten 23rd place.

In 1992 Ralf Lyding was injured or ill most of the time and was therefore unable to intervene in the fight for the starting place at the Olympic Games in Barcelona . At the European Championships in 1993 he was there again and lost in the 1st round against the Cypriot Aroutioun, which was actually the Armenian Barsegutan Arutjunow . Due to a rule change this one defeat already led to the elimination from the tournament.

In 1994 Lyding, who at a height of 1.70 m, always suffered from weight problems at featherweight, started for the first time at an international lightweight championship. In Rome he was able to fully convince, even if he only finished 4th. In a very exciting preliminary round match he was defeated by Vadim Bogijew from Russia very narrowly with 3: 4 points. At the world championship of the same year, Ralf Lyding was still not used because Alexander Leipold started there in the lightweight and who also became world champion.

Ralf Lyding, who worked as a post office clerk, ended his international career.

International success

(WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, Pa = paper weight, Ba = bantam weight, Fe = featherweight, Le = lightweight, at that time up to 48 kg, 57 kg, 62 kg and 68 kg body weight)

German championships

literature

  • Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 11/1985, pages 5/6, 5/1986, pages 5/6, 11/1986, pages 9/10, 9/1987, pages 8 to 10, 5/1990, pages 4 to 7 , 10/1990, page 4, 5/1991, pages 13 and 23, 10/1991, page 10, 5/1993, page 11, 4/1994, pages 6 to 8
  • Hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Verlag Der Ringer , Niedernberg , 1991, pages 189, 222, 224, 226 u. 227

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The German Wrestling Association mourns Ralf Lyding , ringen.de, February 28, 2019
  2. ↑ Oliver Schinkewitz: Lyding's death plunges KSV Witten 07 into deep grief. WAZ , February 28, 2019, accessed February 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lyding, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten
DATE OF DEATH 26th February 2019
Place of death Weather