René Schiermeyer

René Schiermeyer (born September 27, 1938 in Mulhouse ) is a former French wrestler and bronze medalist at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome in the Greco-Roman style welterweight.

Career

René Schiermeyer grew up in Schlettstadt / Alsace . He started there as a teenager with rings and developed into one of the best French wrestler in the 1960s. In 1956 he was the first French champion in the junior Greco-Roman style welterweight. In 1959 he made a lasting impression on the international wrestling mat when he finished second in a middleweight tournament in Savona behind the Turkish Olympic champion Mithat Bayrak , but ahead of the German vice world champion from 1958 Horst Hess . Before that, he had already participated in the 1958 World Championships in Budapest in the middleweight division, but had to pay hardship there. As luck would have it, in his fights he met both German representatives, Horst Heß from Dortmund and Lothar Metz from Rostock , to whom he lost and ended up in 13th place.

At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , René Schiermeyer celebrated the greatest success of his career in welterweight. He won the bronze medal there with three wins and one draw against the strong Italian Franco Benedetti .

In the next few years René started regularly at the world championships, but could not win any more medals. The 7th place at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo and 7th place at the 1962 World Cup in Toledo / USA were the best results he achieved.

René also played a good role at the Mediterranean Games in 1959 and 1963, where he won medals.

After the Olympic Games in 1964, René Schiermeyer ended his international wrestling career.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style, We = welter weight, up to 1961 up to 73 kg body weight, from 1962 up to 78 kg body weight, Mi = middle weight, up to 1961 up to 79 kg body weight , from 1962 up to 87 kg body weight)

• 1958, 13th place , World Cup in Budapest , GR, Wed, after defeats against Horst Heß , FRG and Lothar Metz , GDR ;
• 1959, 2nd place , tournament in Savona , GR, Wed, behind Mithat Bayrak , Turkey and in front of Horst Heß, FRG;
• 1959, 3rd place , Mediterranean Games in Beirut , GR, We, behind Stevan Horvath , Yugoslavia and Mit Bayrak;
• 1959, 3rd place , Mediterranean Games in Beirut, F, We, behind Mahmut Atalay , Turkey and El Sayed, Egypt ;
• 1960, bronze medal , OS in Rome , GR, We, with victories over Edward Zulawnik, Poland , Sam Azolay, Morocco and Hans-Jürgen Hirschbühl, Switzerland , a draw against Franco Benedetti , Italy and despite defeats against Stevan Horvath, Günther Maritschnigg , FRG and Mithat Bayrak;
• 1961, 12th place , World Cup in Yokohama , GR, Wed, after defeats against Abbas Golmakhani, Iran and Yavuz Selekman, Turkey;
• 1962, 7th place , World Championships in Toledo / USA , GR, We, with a victory over Robert Zingg, Switzerland and defeats to Rudy Williams, USA and Anatoli Kolessow , USSR ;
• 1963, 2nd place , Mediterranean Games in Naples , F, We, behind Kaya Can, Turkey and ahead of Kozanidis, Greece ;
• 1963, 10th place , World Cup in Helsingborg , GR, W, after defeats to Boleslaw Dubicki, Poland and Ion Ţăranu , Romania ;
• 1964, 3rd place , tournament in Klaus b. Salzburg , GR, We, behind Helmut Längle, Austria and Jiři Loukota, CSSR ;
• 1964, 7th place , OS in Tokyo , GR, We, with a win over Asgar Zoughian, Iran, a draw against Albert Michiels, Belgium and a loss against Anatoli Kolessow

French championships

René Schiermeyer was between 1959 and 1967 a total of ten times French champion in the Greco-Roman and free style in the world terweight and middleweight division.

International battles

• 1960, France against FRG, GR, We, point defeat against Günther Maritschnigg,
• 1962, FRG against France, GR, We, point defeat against Georg Utz ,
• 1964, FRG against France, GR, We, points victory over Ernst Knoll ,
• 1964, France against FRG, GR, We, draw against Peter Nettekoven

swell

• various issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1958 to 1965,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976

Web links

• Profile of René Schiermeyer at the Institute for Applied Training Science