Rolf Lacour

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Rolf Lacour medal table

Wrestler

Germany
World Championship
silver 1965 Tampere To fly
bronze 1966 Toledo To fly
European Championship
bronze 1967 Minsk To fly
gold 1969 Modena paper

Rolf Lacour (born June 26, 1937 in Saarbrücken ; † January 28, 2018 in Köllerbach ) was a German wrestler .

Career

Rolf Lacour grew up in Saarland and started wrestling at a young age in Burbach , a district of Saarbrücken. In the youth and junior sector he has not yet been able to place in the front field at German championships. In 1959, at the age of 22, he was second in the German freestyle championship , flyweight . From then on he was one of the top German class, a few years later he also reached the top of the world, to which he belonged until 1972. Rolf Lacour started for KSV Köllerbach , for which he was still successful in team fights in the 1980s. He was an employee of the city of Saarbrücken.

The greatest success in Rolf Lacour's career was winning the runner-up world title in 1965 in the Greco-Roman style flyweight. After the introduction of paper weight in 1969, this year it started successfully in this weight class, which had its weight limit with a body weight of only 48 kg. That year he became European champion in the Greco-Roman style in Modena .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = freestyle, GR = Greco-Roman style, flyweight, then up to 52 kg, paper weight, then up to 48 kg body weight)

year space competition style Weight class
1962 6th World Cup in Toledo / USA F. To fly with victory over Soltaninejad, Iran and defeats against Ali Aliyev , USSR and Vincenzo Grassi, Italy
1962 4th World Cup in Toledo / USA GR To fly with victories over Dumitru Pârvulescu , Romania and a tie against Sergei Rybalko , USSR, Mohammed Paziraye, Iran and Mohamed Osman, Egypt
1964 4th OS in Tokyo GR To fly with victories over Risto Björlin , Finland , Ignazio Fabra , Italy, Fuad Ali, Egypt and one defeat against Pârvulescu
1965 2. World Cup in Tampere GR To fly with victories over Fabra, Ahmed Koshoi, Iran, Bosko Marinko, Yugoslavia , Trond Martiniussen, Norway , a draw against Angel Keresow , Bulgaria and one defeat against Sergei Rybalko
1966 3. World Cup in Toledo / USA GR To fly with victories over Ali, Laszlo Ölvetti, Hungary , Marinko, James Hazewinkel, USA and defeats against Keresow and Sergei Rybalko
1967 3. EM in Minsk GR To fly with victories over Gheorghe Stoiciu , Romania, Miroslaw Zeman, Czechoslovakia , Axel Bürger, Denmark , undecided against Marinko and defeats against Sergei Rybalko and Petar Kirow , Bulgaria
1967 5. World Cup in Bucharest GR To fly with wins over Zeman, Bürger, undecided against Cornel Turturea, Romania and one defeat against Stefan Hajduk, Poland
1968 5. OS in Mexico City GR To fly with victories over Mongued, Egypt, Karmous, Morocco , Gheorghe Stoiciu and a draw against Imre Alker, Hungary and Jussi Vesterinen, Finland
1969 5. World Cup in Mar del Plata GR paper with victory over Williams, USA a. Defeats against Ivan Dinkow, Bulgaria a. Tariel Alibegashvili, USSR
1969 1. EM in Modena GR paper with victories over Calafiore, Italy, Bucher, Switzerland , Le Bachelet, France and Muzaffer Can, Turkey
1970 13. EM in Berlin GR To fly after defeats against Klim Olsojew, USSR a. Petar Kirov, Bulgaria
1970 10. World Cup in Edmonton GR paper after a defeat by Stefan Angelow (both wrestlers disqualified), Bulgaria a. a tie against Baek Seung-hyun, South Korea
1972 9. OS in Munich F. paper with a win over Jemran Bararragcha, Mongolia , a draw against Sergio Gonzalez, USA a. one loss to Ion Arapu , Romania

Success at German championships

Rolf Lacour won the German Greco-Roman style flyweight championship in 1962, 1963, 1967 and 1969, in free style in 1962, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1972 in paper weight (ten titles in total). In addition, he was German runner-up eleven times. His main competitors were Paul Neff , Schifferstadt , Albert Wieser and Fritz Huber , both Bad Reichenhall and Mario Sabattini , Freiburg im Breisgau . With his club, KSV Köllerbach, he also won the German team championship in 1966 and 1968.

swell

  • Athletics magazine from 1960 to 1972.
  • Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976.
  • A hundred years of wrestling in Germany . Der Ringer publishing house , Niedernberg 1976.

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personal data
SURNAME Lacour, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2018
Place of death Köllerbach