Sven Thiele
Sven Thiele (born May 12, 1969 in Merseburg ) is a German wrestler . He was vice world champion in 1995 and from 1992 to 2008 he was German heavyweight champion 17 times in free style. He has participated in three Olympic Games and won numerous medals in international championships and tournaments.
Career
Sven Thiele started wrestling in 1979 in Merseburg. Since his talent was recognized at an early stage, he was delegated to the children's and youth sports school in Halle . As a member of SC Chemie Halle , Rainer Kamm became his coach in 1982, who led him to the German and soon to the world class of freestyle wrestlers in the heavyweight division until 1987. He won his first German heavyweight championship in 1992, defeating the reigning world champion Andreas Schröder from Jena . After German reunification, he first moved to KSV Witten 07 , but also started for AC Bavaria Goldbach , WKG Halle-Merseburg and the1. Luckenwalder Wrestling Club . He wrestled in the first German Bundesliga for 19 years and was active in the 1st Bundesliga for KFC Leipzig until 2008 .
Sven made his debut on the international wrestling mat at the European Championships in 1993 in Istanbul . He took 4th place there, as he lost in the battle for the bronze medal against the Russian Gennadi Schilzow with a score of 0: 0 by a judge's decision.
At the European Championships in Rome in 1994 , he finished only 9th. A year later, he proved his skills at the World Championships in Atlanta and was runner-up. He achieved shoulder victories over Neal Kranz from Guam , Feng Aigang from China , a point win over Sasa Turmanidze from Georgia and was defeated in the final by US Olympic champion Bruce Baumgartner just 0: 1 on points.
In 1996 he became vice European champion in Budapest . In the final he was defeated by the reigning world champion Mahmut Demir from Turkey .
In the following years he achieved his best results at the European Championships. In 1997, 1999, 2000 and 2001 he won the bronze medal each time and in 2002 and 2004 he reached 4th place each time. At the Olympic Games he never managed to win a medal. Several times he was close to it, but always lost the decisive fights that would have led to the medal ranks. In 1996, 2000 and 2004 he took 6th, 7th and 9th place. At the world championships it was similar to him, he achieved many placements among the 10 best wrestlers in the world, but after 1995 no more medals.
He finally achieved prestige successes in 2001 when he won the military world championship and the 2003 World Cup in Boise. Sven also stood his ground in many other tournaments, won some of these tournaments and was often among the top three winners. After his victory at the German championships in 2008 , he initially ended his career. In May 2010, Thiele announced that he would play again in the Ringer Bundesliga for ASV Hof from the 2010/2011 season .
Sven Thiele is a master electrical engineer, was a senior sergeant major in the Bundeswehr during his active time as a wrestler and was a trainer at the performance center in Leipzig from 2006 to 2012. He graduated as a "Diplom-Trainer des DOSB" and then studied "Sport and Applied Training Science" (BA). He then became national coach in the German Wrestling Association from 2013 to 2016, responsible for the freestyle area. From 2017 he switched to the school service as a teacher and passes on his knowledge as a national trainer in Austria.
His son Erik Thiele successfully followed in his footsteps and won his first medal at an international championship in freestyle wrestling with the bronze medal at the 2016 European Championships in Riga.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = world championship, EM = European championship, F = freestyle, S = heavyweight, up to 1996 up to 100 kg body weight, from 1997 to 2001 up to 130 kg, since 2002 up to 120 kg body weight, SS = super heavyweight, until 1996 up to 130 kg body weight)
| year | space | competition | style | Weight class | |
| 1987 | 2. | Junior World Championships in Burnaby / Canada | F. | S. | behind Arawat Sabeev , USSR and in front of Marin Michailow, Bulgaria |
| 1987 | 5. | Junior European Championship in Katowice | F. | SS | behind Oleg Nanijew , USSR, Mahmut Demir , Turkey and Iwajlo Barschew, Bulgaria |
| 1988 | 7th | Junior European Championship in Wałbrzych / Poland | F. | S. | Winner: Arawat Sabejew ahead of Senol Karagöz, Turkey and Sotir Gotschew, Bulgaria |
| 1989 | 4th | Junior World Championships in Ulaanbaatar | F. | SS | behind Andrei Shumilin , USSR, Atanas Geguskow, Bulgaria and Andrew Borodow , Canada |
| 1993 | 1. | Grand Prix tournament "Acropolis" in Athens | F. | SS | with victories over Samer, Syria , Petros Bourdouis, Greece and Andreas Schröder , Germany |
| 1993 | 4th | EM in Istanbul | F. | SS | behind Mahmut Demir, Mirabi Valiyev , Ukraine and Gennady Schilzow , Russia and in front of Aljaksej Mjadswedseu , Belarus and Kiril Barbutow, Bulgaria |
| 1994 | 9. | EM in Rome | F. | SS | Winner: Mirabi Valiyev ahead of Mahmut Demir and Andrei Schumilin |
| 1994 | 11. | World Cup in Istanbul | F. | SS | Winner: Mahmut Demir ahead of Bruce Baumgartner , USA and Aljaksej Mjadswedseu |
| 1995 | 7th | EM in Freiburg in Üechtland / Switzerland | F. | SS | behind Mahmut Demir, Valiev, Leri Chabelowi , Russia, Aljaksej Mjadswedseu, Zsolt Gombos , Hungary and Petros Bourdoulis |
| 1995 | 2. | World Cup in Atlanta | F. | SS | behind Bruce Baumgartner and in front of Leri Chabelowi, Sasa Turmanidze , Georgia , Mahmut Demir and Igor Klimow, Kazakhstan |
| 1996 | 2. | EM in Budapest | F. | SS | behind Mahmut Demir and in front of Mirabi Waliev, Aljaksej Mjadswedseu, Zsolt Gombos and Georgi Kairinow, Russia |
| 1996 | 3. | German Grand Prix in Leipzig | F. | SS | behind Aljaksej Mjadswedseu and Gennadi Schilzow and in front of Jurij Schobitko , Ukraine, Heiko Geffke, Germany, Petros Bourdoulis and Mahmut Demir |
| 1996 | 6th | OS in Atlanta | F. | SS | behind Mahmut Demir, Aljaksej Mjadswedseu, Bruce Baumgartner, Schumilin and Alexander Kowalewski, Kazakhstan |
| 1997 | 1. | “Dan Kolew” tournament in Sofia | F. | S. | before Arawat Sabejew and Zekeriya Güçlü |
| 1997 | 3. | EM in Warsaw | F. | S. | behind David Musuľbes , Russia and Aljaksej Mjadswedseu and in front of Aydın Polatçı , Turkey, Jurij Schobitko and Krassimir Kotschew, Bulgaria |
| 1997 | 1. | "CISM" wrestling tournament in Kiev | F. | S. | in front of Schumilin and Dirk Winterfeldt, Germany |
| 1997 | 7th | World Cup in Krasnoyarsk | F. | S. | behind Zekeriya Güçlü, Alexis Rodríguez Valera , Cuba , David Musuľbes, Tom Eriksson , USA, Aljaksej Mjadswedseu and Jurij Schobitko |
| 1998 | 2. | “Dan Kolew” tournament in Sofia | F. | S. | behind Zekeriya Güçlü and in front of Mohammedmahdi Parijama, Iran |
| 1998 | 5. | World Cup tournament in Stillwater / USA | F. | S. | behind Schumilin, Eriksson and Alireza Rezaei , Iran and in front of Hiroyoshi Obata, Japan |
| 1998 | 4th | EM in Bratislava | F. | S. | behind Aydın Polatçı, Milan Mazáč , Slovakia and Musuľbes and ahead of Aleksi Modebadse , Georgia and Aljaksej Mjadswedseu |
| 1998 | 1. | German Grand Prix in Leipzig | F. | S. | in front of Dirk Winterfeldt, Igor Klimow, Zekeriya Güçlü and Vladimiros Joakimidis, Greece |
| 1998 | 9. | World Cup in Tehran | F. | S. | Winner: Alexis Rodríguez Valera ahead of Rasoul Khadem , Iran and Andrei Schumilin |
| 1999 | 3. | World Cup tournament in Spokane / USA | F. | S. | behind Kerry McCoy , USA and Alexis Rodríguez Valera and in front of Wayne Weathers, Canada and Ebrahim Muhraban, Iran |
| 1999 | 3. | EM in Minsk | F. | S. | behind Shumilin and Aydın Polatçı and in front of Aljaksej Mjadswedseu, Aleksi Modebadze and Boschidar Bojadschiew , Bulgaria |
| 1999 | 6th | World Cup in Ankara | F. | S. | behind Stephen Neal , USA, Shumilin, Abbas Jadidi , Iran, Rezab Aşabalıyev, Azerbaijan and Aydın Polatçı |
| 2000 | 3. | EM in Budapest | F. | S. | behind Marek Garmulewicz , Poland and David Musuľbes and in front of Aşabalıyev, Peter Pecha, Czech Republic and Schobitko |
| 2000 | 7th | OS in Sydney | F. | S. | behind David Musuľbes, Artur Taymazov , Uzbekistan , Alexis Rodríguez Valera, Abbas Jadidi, Kerry McCoy and Aljaksej Mjadswedseu |
| 2001 | 3. | EM in Budapest | F. | S. | behind David Musuľbes and Modebadse and in front of Ottó Aubéli , Hungary, Iwan Istschenko, Ukraine a. Theofilos Ampatzi, Greece |
| 2001 | 2. | German Grand Prix in Leipzig | F. | S. | behind David Musuľbes and in front of Tolga Topcu, Markus Hamann , Germany and Tomasz Szewczyk, Poland |
| 2001 | 1. | CISM military world championship in Split | F. | S. | before Jurij Schobitko, Nikolai Telegin, Russia, Frank Workman, USA and Tolga Topcu, Turkey |
| 2001 | 16. | World Cup in Sofia | F. | S. | Winner: David Musuľbes ahead of Artur Taymazov and Alexis Rodríguez Valera |
| 2002 | 4th | World Cup tournament in Spokane / USA | F. | S. | behind Kerry McCoy , Oleg Kurpjakow, Russia and Gelegschamtsyn Ösöchbajar , Mongolia and in front of Eric Kirschner, Canada and Jung Chun-Mo, Korea |
| 2002 | 4th | EM in Baku | F. | S. | behind David Musuľbes, Dawit Otiaschwili , Georgia and Zekeriya Güçlü and before Bojadschiew and Schobitko |
| 2002 | 2. | Tournament in Matanzas / Cuba | F. | S. | behind Alexis Rodríguez Valera, Cuba |
| 2003 | 8th. | EM in Riga | F. | S. | Winner: David Musuľbes ahead of Serhij Prjadun , Ukraine and Aleksi Modebadse |
| 2003 | 1. | German Grand Prix in Leipzig | F. | S. | before Markus Hamann, Ottó Aubéli, Dimitrius Theodoridis, Greece and Jaroslaw Jankowski |
| 2003 | 11. | World Cup in New York | F. | S. | Winner: Artur Taymazov ahead of Kerry McCoy and Alireza Rezaei |
| 2003 | 2. | Tournament in Matanzas / Cuba | F. | S. | behind Alexis Rodríguez Valera and in front of Bojadschiew, Bulgaria |
| 2003 | 1. | World Cup tournament in Boise / USA | F. | S. | before Kuramagomed Kuramagomedow , Russia, Kerry McCoy and Serhij Prjadun |
| 2004 | 4th | EM in Ankara | F. | S. | behind Aydın Polatçı, Karamagomed Karamagomedow, and Serhij Prjadun and in front of Radoslaw Jankowski, Poland and Dawit Otiaschwili |
| 2004 | 3. | German Grand Prix in Leipzig | F. | S. | behind Fardin Masoumi Valadi , Iran and Rareș Daniel Chintojan and in front of Netoras Batzelas, Greece, Markus Hamann and Marek Garmulewicz |
| 2004 | 9. | OS in Athens | F. | S. | Winner: Artur Taymazov ahead of Alireza Rezaei and Aydın Polatçı |
| 2006 | 15th | EM in Moscow | F. | S. | Winner: Kuramagomed Kuramagomedow ahead of Iwan Istschenko, Ukraine and Rareș Daniel Chintojan, Romania |
German championships
| year | space | style | Weight class | |
| 1992 | 1. | F. | SS | in front of Andreas Schröder , Aalen |
| 1993 | 1. | F. | SS | before Andreas Schröder |
| 1994 | 1. | F. | SS | before Andreas Schröder |
| 1995 | 1. | F. | SS | before Andreas Schröder |
| 1996 | 1. | F. | SS | in front of Andreas Schröder and Heiko Geffke, Mohlsdorf |
| 1997 | 1. | F. | S. | before Dirk Winterfeldt, Witten and Raik Stichling, Kornwestheim |
| 1998 | 1. | F. | S. | before Thomas Dybiona, Magdeburg and Detlef John , Wiesental |
| 1999 | 1. | F. | S. | before Dirk Petzold, Neckargartach and Detlef John |
| 2000 | 1. | F. | S. | before Raimund Schulnies, Haslach im Kinzigtal and Ludwig Schneider, Ziegelhausen |
| 2001 | 1. | F. | S. | in front of Raimund Schulnies and Ronny Wegner, Aue |
| 2002 | 1. | F. | S. | in front of Ludwig Schneider and Andre Lenz, Rostock |
| 2003 | 1. | F. | S. | in front of Ludwig Schneider and Andre Lenz, Rostock |
| 2004 | 1. | F. | S. | before Markus Eichin, TuS Adelhausen and Markus Hamann , Jena |
| 2005 | 1. | F. | S. | before Markus Hamann and Thomas Tonn, Luckenwalde |
| 2006 | 1. | F. | S. | before Daniel Strumpf, Jena and Martin Siddiqui , Schriesheim |
| 2007 | 1. | F. | S. | before Martin Siddiqui and Thomas Tonn |
| 2008 | 1. | F. | S. | before Radoslaw Dublinowski , Berlin and Martin Siddiqui |
swell
- International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig,
- Trade journal "Der Ringer", numbers: 04/93, 05/93, 04/94, 09/94, 06/95, 04/96, 04/98, 05/98, 07/08/98, 10/98, 04/99, 05/99, 10/99, 04/00, 10/00,
- One hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer Verlag, Niedernberg, 1991
Individual evidence
- ↑ ringen.de of May 14, 2010 , accessed on June 18, 2010
Web links
- Profile of Sven Thiele at the Institute for Applied Training Science
- Sven Thiele in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thiele, Sven |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merseburg , GDR |