Richard Wolff (wrestler)

Richard Wolff (born October 19, 1948 in Bad Reichenhall ) is a former German wrestler . Between 1976 and 1992 he was a total of nine times German super heavyweight champion in both styles.

Career

Richard Wolff began wrestling as a teenager in Bad Reichenhall. He learned the trade of a car mechanic. In the course of his career, which he operated in both styles, Greco-Roman style and free style, he became German champions in both youth A, juniors and seniors. He initially wrestled at AC Bad Reichenhall , but soon moved to SC Anger , then to TSV Kelheim and ended his career at KSV Germania Aalen , with whom he became German team champion in 1979 and 1984.

In 1965 Richard Wolff won his first medal at a German championship with a third place in the German A-Youth Championship (intern. Designation: "Juniors") in the class over 79 kg body weight. In 1966 he was German A youth champion and in 1969 German junior super heavyweight champion. After these successes, it took him a few years before he also made it into the top German class of super heavyweights among senior citizens. In 1973 he was German runner-up in this weight class in the Greco-Roman style behind Horst Schwarz from Untertürkheim . He won his first German championship title in 1976, again in Greco-Roman style. By 1982 he won eight more German championship titles in super heavyweight, four each in Greco-Roman. Style and four in free style.

In December 1972 Richard Wolff won a tournament in Hennef to form the core team of the German wrestling association in the Greco-Roman. Super heavyweight style in front of Pedro Pawlidis from Aalen and Willi Simon from Kahl. From that point on, he was a member of the German national wrestling team. For the first time he was used at an international championship at the European Championship in Minsk in 1975 . He lost there in Greco-Roman. Super heavyweight style against Oleksandr Kolchynskyj from the Soviet Union and against János Rovnyai from Hungary and came in seventh place.

Richard Wolff achieved two remarkable victories in 1976. At the Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Aschaffenburg , he beat the Romanian Olympic third and Wilfried Dietrich conqueror Victor Dolipschi on points and at the European Championships in Leningrad he even managed to win points over the Soviet world champion Alexander Kolchinsky. Unfortunately he then lost in Leningrad not only to Alexandar Tomow from Bulgaria , but also to the young Hungarian József Nagy , so that he only came in 4th place in the final score at this European championship. After the victory over Kolchinski, more would certainly have been possible.

At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , he won the Greco-Roman style over the Swedish champion Arne Robertsson , but then lost to János Rovnyai and Roman Codreanu from Romania and came in seventh place.

After the Olympic Games in 1976 there were differences between Richard Wolff and the then national coach Heinz Ostermann, which meant that Wolff was no longer used in any other international championships, although he was by far the best German super heavyweight in both styles for a few years was.

International success

year	space	competition	style	Weight class
1972	1.	Tournament in Copenhagen	GR	SS	before Tadeusz Weglewski, Poland a . Einar Gundersen, Norway
1973	3.	Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Moosburg an der Isar	GR	SS	behind Christo Ignatow , Bulgaria a . Galinski, Poland
1974	2.	Grand Prix of the FRG in Bad Reichenhall	GR	SS	behind Karl-Heinz Gerdsmeier , in front of Lorenz Hecher , bde. FRG, Jürgen Bohndorf, GDR a. Zygmunt Andrecki, Poland
1975	4th	Intern. Tournament in Galați	GR	SS	behind Roman Codreanu u. Victor Dolipschi , bde. Romania u. Shota Morschiladze, USSR
1975	2.	Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg	GR	SS	behind Alexandar Tomow , Bulgaria, in front of Lorenz Hecher
1975	4th	"Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig	GR	SS	behind Alexandar Tomow, Roman Codreanu u. Victor Dolipschi
1975	7th	World Cup in Minsk	GR	SS	after defeats against Oleksandr Kolchynskyj , USSR a. János Rovnyai , Hungary
1976	3.	Klippan tournament	GR	SS	behind Alexandar Tomow u. Avtandil Maissuradze , USSR
1976	2.	Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg	GR	SS	behind Nikola Dinew , Bulgaria, in front of Victor Dolipschi , Zygmunt Andrecki u. Evgeni Artyuchin , USSR
1976	4th	EM in Leningrad	GR	SS	with victories over Henryk Tomanek , Poland a. Alexander Koltschinski u. Defeats against Alexandar Tomow u. József Nagy , Hungary
1976	7th	OS in Montreal	GR	SS	with a victory over Arne Robertsson , Sweden a . Defeats against János Rovnyai u. Roman Codreanu

German championships

year	space	Age group	style	Weight class	Result
1965	3.	Youth A	GR	over 79 kg body weight	behind Herbert Schwarz, Untertürkheim a . Reinhard Bock, Wersau
1966	1.	Youth A	F.	over 87 kg body weight	before Georg Kadel, Niederliebersbach a . Heinrich Raber, Speyer
1969	1.	Juniors	GR	SS	in front of Josef Hinterlhölzl, Spiesen u. Helmut Repper, Unterelchingen
1973	2.	Seniors	GR	SS	behind Horst Schwarz , Untertürkheim, in front of Gottfried Hanuschka
1975	2.	Seniors	GR	SS	behind Lorenz Hecher , Hallbergmoos , in front of Alfons Hecher , Hallbergmoos
1976	1.	Seniors	GR	SS	in front of Klaus Reiter, Göttingen a . Willi Simon, bald
1977	1.	Seniors	GR	SS	in front of Gerd Volz , VfK Schifferstadt u. Wolfgang Ries, ASV Mainz 88
1977	1.	Seniors	F.	SS	before Heinz Eichelbaum , KSV Witten u. Eckhard Knodel, KSV Wiesental
1978	1.	Seniors	GR	SS	before Heinz Eichelbaum u. Eckhard Knodel
1978	1.	Seniors	F.	SS	in front of Wolfgang Gentzen, Bonn -Duisdorf a. Max Schröger, Untergriesbach
1979	1.	Seniors	GR	SS	before Wolfgang Gentzen a. Albert Niederberger, AC Bad Reichenhall
1979	1.	Seniors	F.	SS	before Wolfgang Gentzen a. Alfons Hecher
1980	1.	Seniors	GR	SS	before Wolfgang Gentzen a. Willi Simon
1982	3.	Seniors	GR	SS	behind Karl Hug , Freiburg- St. Georgen u. Michael Kies
1982	1.	Seniors	F.	SS	before Wolfgang Gentzen a. Hans-Günter Klein , KSV Witten

Note: OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = freestyle, super heavyweight, back then over 100 kg body weight

swell

• Trade magazines Athletik and Der Ringer ,
• Documentation of FILA Wrestling Championships , 1976,
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig ,
• One hundred years of wrestling in Germany , published by the German Wrestling Association, Der Ringer Verlag , Niedernberg , 1991, page 206

Web links

• Profile of Richard Wolff at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Richard Wolff in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )