Thomas Passarelli

Thomas Passarelli (born February 11, 1955 in Gambatesa , Italy ) is a former German wrestler .

Career

Thomas Passarelli is the son of an Italian immigrant. He came to Ludwigshafen am Rhein in the early 1960s and began wrestling there . He was the eldest of three Passarelli brothers. While Thomas, highly talented like his two other brothers Pasquale and Claudio , “only” achieved nine-time German championships, Pasquale became Olympic champions and Claudio world champions . Thomas learned wrestling from the successful Ludwigshafen trainer Walter Gehring. In 1974, at the age of nineteen, he won his first German featherweight title in the Greco-Roman style, the style he only wrestled.

Thomas Passarelli was active until 1990, first for KSG Ludwigshafen and then for VfK Schifferstadt , won nine German championship titles and was also German team champion with VfK Schifferstadt.

On an international level, he recorded the best results of 6th place at the 1975 World Cup in Minsk and two further 6th places at the European Championships in 1978 in Oslo and 1979 in Bucharest . Thomas Passarelli was a very spirited and risk-taker wrestler who, with a little more restraint, might have achieved even better results. In his career he was repeatedly thrown back from serious injuries.

successes

International success

(WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Fe = featherweight, back then up to 62 kg body weight)

• 1975, 5th place , Grand Prix of Germany in Aschaffenburg , GR, Fe, behind Georgi Markow (wrestler) , Bulgaria , Peter Grabinger, Federal Republic of Germany , Lionel Lacaze, France a . Roland Jäger, FRG;
• 1975, 6th place , World Cup in Minsk , GR, Fe, with a victory over Dusko Vukow, Yugoslavia a . Defeats against László Réczi , Hungary a . Kazimierz Lipień , Poland ;
• 1976, 13th place , EM in Leningrad , GR, Fe, after defeats against Pekka Hjelt, Finland a . Jaroslaw Meduna, CSSR ;
• 1977, 9th place , EM in Bursa , GR, Fe, after defeats against Parvan Rangelow, Bulgaria a. Ion Păun , Romania ;
• 1977, 7th place , World Championships in Gothenburg , GR, Fe, with victories over Reid Lamphere, USA , Domenico Giuffrida, Italy a . Jaroslaw Meduna and defeats to Ion Păun u. László Réczi;
• 1978, 6th place , EM in Oslo , GR, Fe, with victories over Pedersen, Denmark a . Gonzalez, Spain et al. Defeats against István Tóth , Hungary a. Ion Păun;
• 1978, 9th place , World Cup in Mexico City , GR, Fe, with victories over Abdurrahim Kuzu , USA a. Ion Păun et al. Defeats against Kazimierz Lipień u. Stylianos Migiakis , Greece ;
• 1979, 6th place , World Cup in Bucharest , GR, Fe, with victories over Pierre Mercader, France a. Michel Vejsada, CSSR a. a loss to István Tóth;
• 1979, 12th place , World Championship in San Diego , GR, Fe, after defeats against Stefan Werisan, Romania a. Ivan Frgić , Yugoslavia;
• 1980, 10th place , EM in Prievidza , GR, Fe, after defeats against Ion Păun a. Nelson Dawidjan , USSR ;
• 1981, 10th place , EM in Gothenburg , GR, Fe, with a victory over Michel Vejsada u. Defeats against Günter Reichelt , GDR a . Hannu Övermark , Finland

German championships

• 1974, 1st place, GR, Fe, ahead of Helmut Westphal ( Aalen ) and Werner Schauder ( Reilingen )
• 1976, 1st place, GR, Fe, ahead of Helmut Westphal and Hans-Jürgen Veil ( Schifferstadt )
• 1977, 1st place, GR, Fe, ahead of Peter Grabinger ( Kelheim ) and Horst Treml ( Witten )
• 1978, 1st place, GR, Fe, ahead of Robert Geigl (Witten) and Peter Grabinger
• 1979, 1st place, GR, Fe, ahead of Peter Grabinger and Roland Jäger ( Kahl )
• 1980, 1st place, GR, Fe, ahead of Bernd Gabriel (Schwalbach) and Heinfried Eichheimer ( Viernheim )
• 1981, 1st place, GR, Fe, ahead of Czesław Stanjek (Schifferstadt) and Hans Huber (wrestler) (Witten)
• 1982, 1st place, GR, Fe, ahead of Dieter Schwind ( Aschaffenburg ) and Jan Maydak ( Salzgitter )
• 1986, 1st place, GR, Fe, ahead of Hans Huber and Peter Huth ( waterless )

swell

• Various issues of the specialist magazine "Der Ringer" from 1974 to 1990,
• Website "www.sport-komplett.de"

Web links

• Profile of Thomas Passarelli at the Institute for Applied Training Science