Torsten Wagner (wrestler)

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Torsten Wagner (born January 12, 1964 ) is a former German wrestler . He was runner- up in 1986 in the free style light heavyweight division.

Career

Torsten Wagner started wrestling as a teenager at Dynamo Grimmen and came to SC Leipzig via Hoyerswerda . There his career as a competitive athlete began. At the beginning of his career he still wrestled in both styles, Greco-Roman and freestyle, but later specialized fully in the free style. At the age of 18 he took 3rd place in the light heavyweight division in both styles at the GDR championships in 1982.

In the same year his career on the international wrestling mat began when he took 2nd place behind Macharbek Chadarzew from the Soviet Union in the light heavyweight championships in Leipzig . Torsten Wagner met this exceptional wrestler at the international championships in the following years. But he couldn't defeat him.

In 1985 Torsten Wagner achieved a good 5th place at the European Senior Championships in Leipzig. At the European Championships in Athens in 1986 , he then won his first medal. He came in third behind Sanasar Oganessian , the 1980 Olympic champion and the Hungarian Gabor Toth . In the same year Torsten Wagner celebrated the greatest success of his career at the World Championships in Budapest . He reached the final there, in which he lost in the fight for the world title against Macharbek Chadarzew.

In 1987 and 1988 Torsten Wagner could not repeat these successes. At the 1987 World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand he came in 12th place in the light heavyweight division and at the European Championships in 1988 he reached 8th place in Manchester . Both times the winner was Macharbek Chadarzew.

Shortly before the political change in the GDR, Torsten Wagner represented this country for the last time in 1989 at the European Championships in Ankara . He reached a good 5th place in the heavyweight division in Ankara. The winner was Arawat Sabeev from the USSR.

In 1990, Torsten Wagner and his family moved to Mömbris -Königshofen and competed in the Bundesliga for many years for the local wrestling club “RWG”. But he never started at international championships because he faced indomitable world-class athletes in the heavyweight division with Heiko Balz and Arawat Sabejew, who emigrated from the Soviet Union to the FRG, and in the super heavyweight division in Andreas Schröder and Sven Thiele .

Torsten Wagner still lives in Mömbris-Königshofen and works as a trainer in the wrestling club there. His son Oldrik is one of the great young hopes of the German Wrestling Federation in free style in the heavyweight division.

International success

(WM = world championship, EM = European championship, F = free style, GR = Greek-Roman style, Hs = light heavyweight, S = heavyweight, SS = super heavyweight, back then up to 90 kg, 100 kg and up to 130 kg body weight)

  • 1985, 3rd place , tournament in Clermont-Ferrand, F, Hs, behind Pete Bush, USA a . Aleksander Cichoń , FRG a. before Stephane Lamboley, France , Jan Gorski u. Younsheda Sghaier, Tunisia ;
  • 1986, 2nd place , World Championships in Budapest , F, Hs, behind Macharbek Chadarzew u. before James Scherr , USA, Roberto Limontas, Jerzy Niec a. Gabor Toth;
  • 1987, 12th place , World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand, F, Hs, winner: Macharbek Chadarzew ahead of James Scherr u. Jerzy Niec;
  • 1988, 8th place , EM in Manchester , F, Hs, winner: Macharbek Chadarzew in front of Mehmet Turkaya , Turkey a. Gabor Toth;
  • 1989, 5th place , EM in Ankara , F, S, behind Arawat Sabejew, Heyri Sezgin , Turkey, Stojan Nenchew u. Sandor Kiss et al. in front of Dimitrios Bourdoulis, Greece ;
  • 1992, 5th place , Grand Prix of Germany in Leipzig, F, S, behind Andrej Golowkow, Russia, Daud Magomedow , Dagestan , Heiko Balz u. Arawat Sabeev, bde. Germany u. in front of Rumen Alabakow, Bulgaria;

GDR championships

  • 1982, 3rd place, F, Hs, behind Uwe Neupert , SC Motor Jena u. Möhring, SG Dynamo Luckenwalde ,
  • 1982, 3rd place, GR, Hs, behind Uwe Neupert u. Uwe Witthuhn, ASK Forward Frankfurt ,
  • 1984, 1st place, F, Hs, before Bartsch u. Bodeutsch, bde. SC Motor Jena,
  • 1985, 1st place, F, Hs, in front of Roland Dudziak u. Voss, bde. SG Dynamo Luckenwalde,
  • 1986, 1st place, F, Hs, in front of Weickert, SC Motor Jena u. Mika, locomotive Altenburg ,
  • 1987, 1st place, F, Hs, in front of Seeger, SC Leipzig a . Voss
  • 1989, 1st place, F, S

German championships

swell

  • Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 5/1985, page 12, 5/1986, pages 5/6, 11/1986, page 10, 9/1987, pages 9/10, 5/1988, pages 4/5, 5/1989 , Page 10, 7/8/1989, page 11, 4/1989, page 7, 5/1989, page 10, 7/8/1989, page 11, 4/1990, page 7, 3/1992, page 13, 7/8/1992, page 5, 3/1993, page 12, 7/8/1993, page 6, 3/1994, page 8
  • One hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer Verlag , Niedernberg , 1991, page 240
  • Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1964