Rolf Krauss

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Rolf Krauss (born April 30, 1954 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a former German wrestler . He was European flyweight champion in the Greco-Roman style.

German national team wrestling 1978 (Rolf Krauss in the front row, first from right)

Career

Rolf Krauss grew up in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and started doing gymnastics as a child . In 1968 he was discovered for wrestling and shaped into a world class athlete by trainer Walter Gehring. In the years 1972 to 1974 he was German junior champion three times in a row and in 1973 for the first time at a European championship for seniors, which took place in Helsinki at the time . In 1974 he was in the Finnish Haparanda junior European champion in flyweight, Greco-Roman. Style, the style he exclusively wrestled.

In 1975 he made fourore for the first time when he was in a superior manner European flyweight champion in Ludwigshafen. He also defeated the Soviet representative Valeri Arutjunow safely on points.

At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Krauss also started in the flyweight division and came in fourth after three victories and defeats against Vitaly Konstantinov from the Soviet Union and Nicu Gângă from Romania .

In 1977 Krauss tried his hand at the next higher weight class, the bantamweight, in order to avoid the constant, exhausting workout of several kilos before each competition, but had to realize that he had no chance in the bantamweight. This shows a 13th place at the European championship in Bursa and a 7th place at the world championship in Gothenburg . That was not enough for the demands of Rolf Krauss.

In the following years so he competed in international championships again at flyweight and reached at the European Championships 1978 in Oslo the fourth place in the 1978 World Cup in Mexico City the 6th Place and in the World Cup in 1979 in San Diego 5th place . At the 1980 European Championships in Prievidza , Krauss was about to win his second title. A narrow defeat against the Soviet athlete Wachtang Blagidze was ultimately decisive for the fact that he was "only" vice European champion.

At the 1980 Olympic Games Krauss could not attend because of the boycott of these Games by the Federal Republic of Germany. He would certainly have had a good chance of winning a medal.

After 1982, Rolf Krauss did not start at international championships, but was available to his home club, KSG Ludwigshafen, for a few years for team fights in the German wrestling league. He was a trained heating technician who trained as a chemical technician.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, flyweight, bantamweight, then up to 52 kg or 57 kg body weight)

year space competition Weight class
1973 8th. EM in Helsinki To fly with a win over Johnny Spjuth, Sweden , a draw against Hizir Sari, Turkey a . a loss to Jan Michalik , Poland
1974 2. Tournament in Bad Reichenhall To fly behind Nicu Gângă , Romania a . before Hizir Sari u. Paul Schneider , FRG
1974 1. Junior European Championship in Haparanda To fly in front of Wladimir Karatajew, USSR , Jerzy Bujok, Poland , Botez Sandu, Romania u. Radoslaw Borisov, Bulgaria
1974 6th EM in Madrid To fly with victories over Claude Jorland, France a . Agostino Di Mauro, Italy a . Defeats against Petar Kirov , Bulgaria a. Nicu Gângă
1975 1. EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein To fly with victories over Agostino Di Mauro, Bilal Tabur , Turkey, Otto Köb, Austria , Heinz Schmidt , GDR a . Valery Arutjunov , USSR
1976 unpl. EM in Leningrad To fly after victories over Antonio Caltabiano, Italy a. Bilal Tabur retired due to injury
1976 4th OS in Montreal To fly with victories over Leonel Barata Duarte, Portugal , Bruce Thompson, USA a . Moradali Shirani, Iran a . Defeats to Vitaly Konstantinov , USSR a. Nicu Gângă
1977 4th Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bad Reichenhall To fly behind Nicu Gângă, Kamil Fatkulin , USSR a. Gustav Dubelowski, FRG a. before Erich Nungesser, FRG
1977 2. Tournament in Kladovo To fly behind Fritz Huber , BRD a. before Djurdjevic, Yugoslavia
1977 13. EM in Bursa Bantam after losing to Asen Milew, Bulgaria and Antonio Caltabiano
1977 7th World Cup in Gothenburg Bantam with victories over Pekka Niemi, Finland and Seichi Osanai, Japan and defeats against Asen Milew a. Ryszard Swierad , Poland
1978 4th EM in Oslo To fly with victories over Thalmann, Switzerland , Bernd Drechsel , GDR a. Maldachowski, Poland and defeats against Wachtang Bladigse , USSR a. Nicu Gângă
1978 6th World Cup in Mexico City To fly with victories over José da Silva, Brazil , Dae Da-Bong, Korea and Haralambos Holidis , Greece and defeats against Lajos Rácz , Hungary and Wachtang Blagidse
1979 5. World Cup in San Diego To fly with a victory over Leszek Majkowski, Poland a. Losses against Kamil Fatkulin and Lajos Rácz
1981 3. Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg Bantam behind Piotr Michalik , Poland and Schamil Serikow , USSR and in front of Pasquale Passarelli , FRG and Benni Ljungbeck , Sweden
1980 2. EM in Prievidza To fly with victories over Heiko Roll , GDR, Kostas Lagonikas, Greece, Mladen Mladenow, Bulgaria, Leszek Majkowski and Antonin Jelinek, CSSR and one defeat against Wachtang Blagidze
1982 9. World Cup in Katowice Bantam with a victory over Haralambos Holidis and defeats against Iwan Balow , Bulgaria and Piotr Michalik , Poland

German championships

year space style Weight class
1973 1. GR To fly before Paul Schneider , Heusweiler and Horst Nuding, Aalen
1974 1. GR To fly before Robert Geigl, Bad Reichenhall and Wolfgang Gaa, Schorndorf
1975 1. GR To fly before Paul Schneider, Köllerbach and Erich Nungesser, Seeheim
1977 1. GR Bantam before Richard Weizmann, Aalen and Hans Huber, Bad Reichenhall
1978 1. GR To fly before Günther Riedinger, Malstatt and Peter Diefenthal, Euskirchen
1980 1. GR Bantam in front of Pasquale Passarelli , Ludwigshafen am Rhein and Jürgen Lutterer, Freiburg im Breisgau
1981 2. GR Bantam behind Pasquale Passarelli and in front of Jürgen Lutterer
1982 2. GR Bantam behind Pasquale Passarelli and in front of Jürgen Lutterer

swell

  • Div. Issues of the specialist magazines "Athletik" from 1973 to 1975 and "The Ringer" from 1976 to 1982,
  • "Hundred Years of Wrestling in Germany", Verlag "Der Ringer", Niedernberg, 1991,
  • sport-komplett.de

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Krauss, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein