Roman Kierpacz

Roman Kierpacz (born February 5, 1961 in Siemianowice Śląskie , Silesian Voivodeship ) is a former Polish wrestler . He was vice world champion in 1987 and European champion in 1980 and 1985 in the Greco-Roman style in paper and flyweight.

Career

Roman Kierpacz started wrestling at the age of 10. He was a member of the GKS Katowice sports club and trained as an electrician. In the club he was trained by Stanislaw Turos, Jan Adamaszek and Antoni Masternak. Stanislaw Krzesinsiki joined the national team as a coach. He wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style. As an adult, he started out at a height of 1.56 meters in paper weight (up to 48 kg body weight), but grew into flyweight (up to 52 kg body weight) from 1981.

Roman Kierpacz, a brilliant technician, physically and mentally strong, began his international wrestling career with successes in the junior area. In 1978 he was at the Junior European Championships (Espoirs) in Oulu in paperweight behind Totju Andonow from Bulgaria and Timor Taimuras Kasaraschwili , USSR. In the same year, at the age of 17, he started at the World Championships for Seniors in Mexico City, where he also won a bronze medal in the paper weight category . He won it over Salih Bora from Turkey , the vice- world champion from 1977 and Todor Guntschew from Bulgaria, while he was defeated against Yoshiteru Horiwaki from Japan and Constantin Alexandru from Romania .

In 1979 he started at the European Seniors Championships in Bucharest , where he won over Dietmar Hinz from the GDR and Vincenzo Maenza from Italy . He lost to Constantin Alexandru and Anatoli Bosin from the USSR and came in 5th place. In the same year he started at the junior world championship in Haparanda in flyweight and came in 3rd place behind Benur Paschajan from the USSR and Nikolai Widow from Bulgaria.

In 1980 Roman Kierpacz celebrated the first major success of his career at the European paper weight championships in Prievidza . With victories over world champion Constantin Alexandru , Uwe Baumann, GDR , Freddy Scherer , FRG , Saksylik Uschkempirow , Soviet Union and Totju Andonow from Bulgaria, he sensationally became European champion and with Saksylik Uschkempirow also defeated the soon-to-be Olympic champion from 1980 in this weight class. At the European Junior Championships (Espoirs) in Bursa shortly thereafter , he started again in the flyweight division and had to be satisfied with 5th place there. He also experienced a great disappointment at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , where he lost to Ferenc Seres from Hungary and Saksylik Uschkempirow and ended up only in 8th place.

After his final move to flyweight, Roman Kierpacz started at the World Championships in Oslo in 1981 . There he managed only one victory over the local hero Jon Rønningen . He lost against Lajos Rácz from Hungary and Ljubomir Zenkow from Bulgaria and finished in 7th place. In 1982 he was only at the European Championships in Varna, where he took 3rd place behind Benur Paschajan and Marian Stefan from Romania and thus won another medal.

He took the same place at the 1983 European Championships in Belgrade . Here he placed behind Lajos Rácz and Sergei Djudajew from the USSR. He referred Mladen Mladenow from Bulgaria and Constantin Alexandru to places 4 and 5. At the 1983 World Cup in Kiev it was only enough for him to place 5, which means he missed a medal. 1984 was a bad year for Roman Kierpacz. Because of an injury he could not take part in the European Championship and he could not take part in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles because of the boycott of these games by the Eastern Bloc countries at that time.

It was therefore more than just a consolation for him that he again became European flyweight champion in Leipzig in 1985 . He referred Misait Tasetdinow from the USSR, Valentin Krumow from Bulgaria, Tibor Jankovics from Czechoslovakia and Mihai Cişmaş from Romania to the places. At the 1985 World Cup in Kolbotn near Oslo he defeated u. a. Bernd Scherer from the Federal Republic of Germany , but a defeat against Jon Rønningen threw him back to 5th place.

1986 was almost the same as 1985. Roman Kierpacz was not at the start at the European Championships and at the World Championships that year in Budapest he only came in 6th place. Sergei Djudajew won there ahead of Jon Rønningen. He was very successful again in 1987. He finished that year first at the European Championships in Tampere behind Andrij Kalaschnykow from the USSR and Csaba Vadász from Hungary, and in the autumn of this year he was in Clermont-Ferrand behind the Cuban Pedro Roque Favier was even Vice World Champion . He left Alexander Ignatenko from the USSR, Serge Robert from France and Valentin Krumow from Bulgaria behind.

In 1988 Roman Kierpacz then tried to win a medal at the Olympic Games for the second time. In Seoul he managed only a 5th place in the flyweight category behind Jon Rønningen, Atsuji Miyahara from Japan , Lee Jaek-suk , South Korea and Alexander Ignatenko.

Then Roman Kierpacz ended his international wrestling career. He went to the Federal Republic of Germany and fought there for many years for KSV Germania Aalen in the German Bundesliga. After finishing his career as an active wrestler, he worked as a youth coach at KSV Aalen and lived in Wasseralfingen .

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1978	3.	Junior European Championship (Espoirs) in Oulu	paper	behind Totju Andonow , Bulgaria a . Timor Taimuras Kasarashvili , USSR
1978	3.	Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Aschaffenburg	paper	behind Constantin Alexandru , Romania a . Vladimir Schatumow , USSR, in front of Dimitri Dudew, Bulgaria a. Jürgen Kleer , FRG
1978	3.	World Cup in Mexico City	paper	with victories over Salih Bora , Turkey a . Todor Guntschew, Bulgaria a. Losses against Yoshiteru Horiwaki , Japan and Constantin Alexandru
1979	4th	Klippan tournament	paper	behind Pawel Christow , Bulgaria, Totju Andonow, Bulgaria u. Mansson, Sweden
1979	5.	EM in Bucharest	paper	with victories over Dietmar Hinz , GDR a . Vincenzo Maenza , Italy and defeats to Constantin Alexandru a . Anatoly Bosin , USSR
1979	2.	Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg	paper	behind Constantin Alexandru , in front of Fumikazo Sasaki , Japan a. Anatoly Bosin, USSR
1979	3.	Junior World Championships in Haparanda	To fly	behind Benur Paschajan , USSR a. Nikolai Widow, Bulgaria, in front of Taisto Halonen , Finland
1980	1.	Tournament in Västerås	paper	before Reijo Haaparanta , Finland a. Kent Andersson, Sweden
1980	1.	EM in Prievidza	paper	with victories over Constantin Alexandru , Uwe Baumann, GDR, Freddy Scherer , FRG, Saksylik Uschkempirow , USSR and Totju Andonow
1980	3.	Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg	paper	behind Constantin Alexandru u. Bernd Scherer , FRG, before Kent Andersson a. Ferenc Seres , Hungary
1980	5.	Junior European Championship (Espoirs) in Bursa	To fly	behind Iwan Kukuschkin, USSR, Nikolai Widow, Laszlo Zorga, Yugoslavia a . Erol Kemah , Turkey , ahead of Heiko Röll , GDR
1980	8th.	OS in Moscow	paper	after defeat by Ferenc Seres a . Saksylik Ushkempirow
1981	1.	"Vladislaus Pytlasinski" tournament in Warsaw	To fly	before Wroblewski, Poland and Ralf Keller, GDR
1981	7th	World Cup in Oslo	To fly	after losing to Lajos Rácz , Hungary, defeating Jon Rønningen , Norway and losing to Ljubomir Zenkow , Bulgaria
1982	3.	EM in Varna	To fly	behind Benur Paschajan , USSR a. Marian Stefan , Romania, ahead of Lajos Rácz and Erol Kemah
1982	3.	Grand Prix of the FRG in Freiburg	To fly	behind Benur Paschajan u. Hans Eglseer, FRG
1983	1.	Klippan tournament	To fly	before Ralf Keller u. Mladen Mladenow , Bulgaria
1983	3.	"Vladislaus Pytlasinski" tournament in Warsaw	To fly	behind Romanjuk, USSR a. Lars Rønningen
1983	3.	EM in Budapest	To fly	behind Lajos Rácz u. Sergei Djudajew , USSR, in front of Mladen Mladenow a. Constantin Alexandru
1983	5.	World Cup in Kiev	To fly	behind Benur Paschajan , Erol Kemah, Ljubomir Zenkow u. Taisto halons
1985	1.	EM in Leipzig	To fly	before Misait Tasetdinow , USSR, Valentin Krumow , Bulgaria, Tibor Jankovics , ČSSR a . Mihai Cișmaș , Romania
1985	5.	World Cup in Kolbotn	To fly	behind Jon Rønningen, Misait Tasetdinow , Mihai Cișmaș u. Atsuji Miyahara , Japan
1986	6th	World Cup in Budapest	To fly	behind Sergei Djudajew, Jon Rønningen, Atsuji Miyahara , Walentin Krumow u. Tibor Jankovics
1987	4th	Grand Prix tournament in Budapest	To fly	behind Valentin Krumow , Csaba Vadász , Hungary a. Serge Robert , France
1987	3.	EM in Tampere	To fly	behind Andrij Kalaschnykow , USSR a. Csaba Vadász, in front of Valentin Krumow, Bulgaria a. Tibor Jankovics
1987	2.	World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand	To fly	behind Pedro Roque Favier , Cuba , in front of Alexander Ignatenko , USSR, Serge Robert u. Valentin Krumov
1987	1.	FILA Grand Prix Gala in Budapest	To fly	in front of Valentin Krumow , Pedro Roque Favier, Serge Robert a . Csaba Vadász
1988	5.	OS in Seoul	To fly	behind Jon Rønningen, Atsuji Miyahara, Lee Jaek-suk , South Korea u. Alexander Ignatenko

Note: all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, paper weight, then up to 48 kg, flyweight, then up to 52 kg body weight

Polish championships

Roman kierpacz was born in 1979, 1981 to 1985, 1987 a. 1988 Polish master in Greco-Roman style in paper and flyweight.

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• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Trade magazines Athletik and Der Ringer ,
• Website "www.olimpijski.pl

Web links

• Profile of Roman Kierpacz at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Roman Kierpacz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait of Roman Kierpacz (Polish)