Roland Gehrke
Roland Gehrke (born January 17, 1954 in Woldegk ) is a former German wrestler . He wrestled exclusively in free style.
Career
Roland Gehrke began as a teenager in 1968 at SG Dynamo Neubrandenburg with the rings . He made rapid progress and when his great talent for this sport became apparent, he was delegated to SG Dynamo Luckenwalde .
In 1974 Gehrke became East German super heavyweight champion for the first time. The year before he had already drawn attention to the Junior World Championship in Miami with a third place in the heavyweight division.
Roland Gehrke made his debut on the international wrestling mat among seniors at the European Championship in 1975 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , where he showed good approaches, but had to be satisfied with 7th place after two defeats. He was more successful at the World Cup in Minsk that same year . With four wins and one defeat against the almost invincible Soslan Andijew from the Soviet Union , he became vice world champion.
Roland Gehrke also took second place at the 1976 European Championships in Leningrad . Andijew was not at the start this time, but Gehrke lost something surprisingly against the Romanian Ladislau Șimon . At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , he narrowly missed a medal with fourth place.
Roland was also successful on the mat from 1977 to 1979. He was always placed in the front field at the World and European Championships in those years. In 1979 he became vice world and vice European champion again.
The 1980 Olympic year was not particularly successful for Gehrke. First, he finished 6th at the European Championships in Prievidza after he had lost his fights against the top wrestlers Adam Sandurski from Poland and Salman Hasimikow from the Soviet Union . Then the dream of an Olympic medal did not come true in Moscow . As four years before, he narrowly failed to achieve this goal with a 4th place.
The most successful year in Roland Gehrke's wrestling career was 1981. In the spring he won the bronze medal at the European heavyweight championships in Łódź , to which he was able to switch after Harald Büttner's resignation . In autumn Roland became world heavyweight champion in Skoplje . He defeated Greg Gibson from the USA in the final .
Roland also celebrated a great success at the European Championships in Budapest in 1983 , where he again became vice European champion. In the final he was again defeated by a Soviet wrestler, this time Magomed Magomedow . After the world championship in the same year, Roland Gehrke ended his successful wrestling career.
Rolan Gehrke worked for the criminal police for the next few years. After the political change in the GDR he had to give up this activity and was employed in the private sector. On February 25, 2005, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Roland Gehrke's Stasi work .
After his international career, Gehrke began again with the sport of wrestling and wrestled for "Prussia" Berlin and SV 46 Barnstädt in the 2nd Bundesliga. Roland Gehrke worked as a trainer in Austria until December 2008.
Roland Gehrke now lives with his wife Petra, a former rower, in Berlin-Karlshorst and works on a voluntary basis in the coaching staff of the RSC Potsdam . Gehrke has two children.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = Freestyle, S = Heavyweight, SS = Super Heavyweight, back then up to 100/130 kg or over 100 kg body weight)
- 1973, 3rd place , Junior World Championships in Miami , F, S, behind Salman Hasimikow , USSR , and Ratschew, Bulgaria ;
- 1974, 3rd place , European Junior Championships in Haparanda , F, S, behind Aslanbek Bisultanow , USSR, and Iwan Lazarow, Bulgaria;
- 1975, 7th place , EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , F, SS, with a victory over Alaettin Yildirim, Turkey , and defeats against Marin Gertschew, Bulgaria, and Soslan Andijew , USSR;
- 1975, 2nd place , World Championships in Minsk , F, SS, with victories over Bojan Boew, Bulgaria, Kenan Ege, Turkey, József Balla , Hungary , and Heinz Eichelbaum , FRG , and one defeat against Andijew;
- 1976, 2nd place , EM in Leningrad , F, SS, with victories over Haci Osman, Turkey, Chris Dolman, Netherlands , and Boris Bigajew , USSR, and one defeat against Ladislau Șimon , Romania ;
- 1976, 2nd place , "Dan-Kolew" tournament in Varna , F, SS, behind Aslanbek Bisultanow , USSR, and in front of Gertschew, Bulgaria;
- 1976, 4th place , OS in Montreal , F, SS, with victories over Eichelbaum, Lazaro Morales, Cuba , and Mamadou Sakho , Senegal , and defeats against Nikola Dinew , Bulgaria, and Andijew;
- 1977, 1st place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Freiburg im Breisgau , F, SS, ahead of Max Schröger, FRG, Hans-Rüdi Hirsbrunner, Switzerland , and Ladislau Șimon;
- 1977, 5th place , World Championships in Lausanne , F, SS, behind Andijew, Gertschew, Balla and Reza Shouktezari, Iran , and in front of Yildirim;
- 1977, 4th place , “ Georgian Cup ” in Tbilisi , F, S, behind Hasimikow, Hutala and Smobiladze, all of the USSR, and in front of Bisultanov;
- 1978, 1st place , "Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig , F, SS, ahead of Vladimir Parschowkow, USSR, and Morales, Cuba;
- 1978, 3rd place , World Cup in Mexico City , F, SS, with victories over Peter Drozda, Czechoslovakia , Yoshiaku Yatsu, Japan , and Bob Gibbons, Canada , and defeats against Mohammed Saraeh, Iran, and Andijew;
- 1979, 2nd place , EM in Bucharest , F, SS, with victories over Adam Sandurski , Poland, Balla and Peter Iwanow, Bulgaria, and one defeat against Salman Hasimikow , USSR;
- 1979, 2nd place , World Championships in San Diego , F, SS, with victories over Henryk Tomanek , Poland, Kunichisa Yamamoto, Japan, John Achterwood, USA and Janko Andrei, Romania, and one defeat against Hasimikow;
- 1980, 6th place , EM in Prievidza , F, SS, after defeats against Sandurski and Hasimikow;
- 1980, 4th place , OS in Moscow , F, SS, with victories over Mamadou Sakho and Ivanov and defeats against Balla and Andijew;
- 1981, 3rd place , EM in Łódź , F, S, with victories over Ayhin Taskin, Turkey, and Vasile Puşcaşu , Romania, and a defeat against Tomasz Busse , Poland;
- 1981, 1st place , World Championships in Skoplje , F, S, with victories over Reza Talaghani, Iran, Vucko Dantscho, Yugoslavia , Busse, Taskin, Louis Miranda, Cuba, and Greg Gibson , USA ;
- 1982, 4th place , World Championships in Edmonton , F, S, behind Ilya Fyodorowitsch Mate , USSR, Slavcho Chervenko, Bulgaria, and Gibson and in front of Julius Strnisko , Czechoslovakia, and Taskin;
- 1983, 2nd place , EM in Budapest , F, S, behind Magomed Magomedow , USSR, and in front of Strnisko, Mehmet Güclü, Turkey, Busse and Istvan Robotka , Hungary;
- 1983, 11th place , World Cup in Kiev , F, S, winner: Aslan Chadarzew , USSR, ahead of Greg Gibson and Georgi Jantschew , Bulgaria
- 1992, 1st place , European Police Championships in Malmö , F, SS, ahead of Alexander Neumüller, Austria, and David Kilpin, Great Britain
GDR championships
- 1974, 1st place, F, SS, before Beyse, Artern, and Wieland, Aue,
- 1975, 1st place, F, SS, ahead of Ziegler, Luckenwalde, and Wieland,
- 1976, 1st place, F, S, before Nagel, Jena, and Handrock, Warnemünde,
- 1977, 1st place, F, SS, in front of Kuhlmann, Leipzig, and Ziegler,
- 1978, 1st place, F, SS, in front of Wenzel, Luckenwalde, and Schmelzer, Aue,
- 1979, 1st place, F, SS, ahead of Wenzel and Hiepe, Jena,
- 1980, 1st place, F, SS, before Hiepe and Schmelzer,
- 1981, 1st place, F, S, in front of Baumann, Aue, and Rosentreter, Halle,
- 1982, 1st place, F, S, ahead of Smolawa, Leipzig, and Nagel
- 1983, 1st place, F, S, before Uwe Neupert , Jena, and Möhring, Luckenwalde,
- 1984, 1st place, F, S, before Lenz, Frankfurt / Oder, and Smolawa
swell
- International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig,
- DOCUMENTATION of International Wrestling Championships of FILA, 1976,
- Trade journal "Der Ringer", numbers: 11/77, 09/78, 05/79, 09/79, 05/80, 08/80, 05/81, 10/81, 09/82, 09/83 and 10 / 83
- Website www.sport-komplett.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boris Herrmann and Giselher Spitzer: How Stasi spy Gehrke put colleagues on the cross. In: FAZ.net . February 24, 2005, accessed December 17, 2014 .
Web links
- Profile of Roland Gehrke at the Institute for Applied Training Science
- Roland Gehrke in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gehrke, Roland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th January 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Woldegk |