Roland Dudziak

Roland Dudziak (born July 14, 1962 in Wolfen / Saxony-Anhalt , formerly Halle / Saale district , GDR ) is a German wrestler who won a silver medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1985 World Wrestling Championships , but had to give up high-performance sport in the same year due to injury .

Life and Achievements

Dudziak grew up in the GDR and began wrestling with his brother Hagen, who was one year older than him, in the spring of 1970.

Since his early years as an athlete, he has enjoyed success in the school and youth sector. After several district, district and GDR championship titles, he was delegated in 1976 by the sports community Bitterfeld to the sports school in Luckenwalde , where he started for the Luckenwalder sports club . There Dudziak had the opportunity to train together with world class wrestlers such as Roland Gehrke (European and World Champion), Harald Büttner (European and World Champion) and Hans-Dieter Brüchert (multiple medalist at European and World Championships and Olympic runner-up). Reinhold Kwasny , Fred Hempel , Reinhard Mehlhorn and Wolfgang Brösicke were among his coaches .

At national level, Roland Dudziak was able to compete with Uwe Neupert (European and world champion) and Torsten Wagner (vice world champion 1986), which helped him in his sporting development. Roland Dudziak was successful in his first appearances in 1985 in light heavyweight (90 kg) in the freestyle national team of the GDR. In 1985 he won the international FILA tournament in Mongolia and the German Grand Prix in Aschaffenburg in this weight class. After finishing second at the International Romanian Championships, Roland Dudziak was nominated by the GDR for the World Championships in Budapest (Hungary), where he finished second behind William Scherr (USA). In the group final he lost to the later disqualified Iranian wrestler Mohammad Hassan Mohebbi , who lost to William Scherr in the World Cup final.

Due to his international tournament performance in 1985, Roland Dudziak was ranked second in the world freestyle rankings of the FILA (International Amateur Wrestling Association) in the light heavyweight division .

Due to injury, Roland Dudziak had to give up wrestling after the 1985 World Championships. He later worked as a detective in Brandenburg.

Web links

• Luckenwalder Sportclub: Successes 1980 - 1989