Pure Trik

Reiner Trik (born June 2, 1963 in Winzeln / Black Forest ) is a former German wrestler and Vice European Champion in 1984 in free style in the middleweight division.

Career

Trik started wrestling at KSV Winzeln at the age of three , where his first trainer was Dieter Eith. He learned the trade of mechanic and developed into an excellent freestyle wrestler. In 1980 he took 2nd place at the German youth championships and in 1981 1st place in the class up to 75 kg body weight. In 1982 and 1983 he was German junior middleweight champion. The transition to the seniors went smoothly for him, because in 1984 he won his first DM title in the middleweight division.

On the international wrestling stage worked Trik from 1982. In that year he finished 4th at the Junior European Championships in Leipzig and at the Junior World Championships 1983 in Los Angeles he reached the 5th place in the middleweight division. In Los Angeles he was unlucky, as he lost after a victory over the Czech Josef Lohyna against the Bulgarian Nazif Umerow and only came in 3rd place because of a single missing technical point in his pool, which means he was "only" for the 5th place overall. With this point he would have become the pool first and could have fought for the world title against the Romanian Dumitru Chiru.

Trik started with a bang at the international senior championships. At the European Championships in Jönköping in 1984 , he won the silver medal after a narrow final defeat against Efraim Kamberow from Bulgaria . At the Olympic Games of the same year in Los Angeles, he finished 2nd in his pool and was therefore able to fight for the bronze medal against the Canadian Chris Rinke . He lost this fight with 2: 5 points and reached the 4th place.

In the next few years Trik always fought with full commitment at the international championships. But he was no longer able to win a medal again. His best placings were 4th at the 1985 and 1986 World Championships and 5th at the 1987 World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand . In Clermont-Ferrand he barely missed a medal, because he defeated the American Mark Schultz in a pool fight , but was defeated by the Soviet athlete Wladimir Modossian . Since Schultz again defeated Modossian, he became the pool winner because of the best points ratio. Trik could therefore only fight for the 5th place against the Turk Necmi Gençalp , while the Mark Schultz he defeated was still world champion.

In 1988 and 1989 he could no longer place himself in the front of the field at the international championships, often hampered by injuries in preparation. He therefore ended his international wrestling career, but started a few more years for KSV Winzeln. From 1993 he also took over the training in this club and was first chairman until 2006 before he was replaced by Martin Glunk.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, Wed = middleweight, back then up to 82 kg body weight)

• 1982, 4th place , Junior European Championship in Leipzig , F, Wed, behind Senol Tenekecioglu, Turkey , Aslanbek Bisultanow , USSR a . Hamidow, Bulgaria ;
• 1983, 2nd place , Grand Prix of Austria , F, Wed, behind Don Schuler, USA a . before BG Gauchad, France ;
• 1983, 5th place , Junior World Championships in Los Angeles , F, Wed, behind Dumitru Chiru, Romania , Josef Lohyna , CSSR , Aslanbek Bisultanow u. Nazif Umerow, Bulgaria a. before Akeo Akaichi, Japan ;
• 1984, 3rd place , tournament in Istanbul , F, Wed, winner: Turkaya, Turkey;
• 1984, 2nd place , EM in Jönköping , F, Wed, with victories over Gabor Toth, Hungary , Peter Syring , GDR a . Günter Busarello , Austria a . Defeats against Stefan Kurpas, England a . Efraim Kamberow , Bulgaria;
• 1984, 4th place , OS in Los Angeles, F, Wed, with victories over Lundell, Sweden , Günter Busarello u. Kim Tae-Won , South Korea a . Losses against Heraklis Deskoulidis, Greece , Hideyuki Nagashima, Japan a. Chris Rinke , Canada ;
• 1985, 6th place , EM in Leipzig , F, Wed, with victories over Marchl, Austria a. Dermigakis, Greece a. Defeats against Leszek Ciota , Poland and Hans-Peter Franz , GDR;
• 1985, 4th place , World Cup in Budapest , F, Wed, with victories over Habib, Afghanistan , Fernandez, Spain , Mohammad Mohebbi , Iran , Ilomäki, Finland , Josef Lohyna u. Serge Marcel, Canada a. Defeats against Alexander Nanew , Bulgaria a. Alexander Tambovzew , USSR;
• 1986, 1st place , Grand Prix of Great Britain in Manchester , F, Wed, before Holaman, USA a. Marchl, Austria:
• 1986, 8th place , EM in Athens , F, Wed, with a victory over Tapio, Sweden a. Defeats against Jäger, Hungary a. Josef Lohyna;
• 1986, 4th place , World Cup in Budapest, F, Wed, with victories over Roberto Leitaos, Brazil , László Dvorak, Hungary, Necmi Gençalp , Turkey a. Alcide Legrand , France a. Defeats against Alexander Nanew u. Josef Lohyna;
• 1987, 4th place , Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Aschaffenburg , F, Wed, behind Juri Worobiew , USSR, Josef Lohyna u. Necmi Gencalp u. before Brad Andersson, USA;
• 1987, 9th place , EM in Veliko Trnovo , F, Wed, with victories over Iliadis, Cyprus a . Rierer, Switzerland a . Defeats against Necmi Gencalp u. Alexander Nanew;
• 1987, 5th place , World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand , F, Wed, with victories over Alcide Legrand, Mark Schultz , USA, Gregory Edgelow , Canada a. Necmi Gencalp u. a loss to Vladimir Modossian , USSR;
• 1988, 3rd place, tournament in Palermo , F, Wed, behind Josef Lohyna u. Dimitar Todorow, Bulgaria;
• 1988, 1st place , Grand Prix of Greece in Athens, B, Wed, u. a. with victories over Hans Gstöttner , GDR a. Chris Rinke;
• 1988, 10th place , Em in Manchester, F, Wed, with victories over Deco Nikolovski, Yugoslavia a . Konstantin Avramis, Greece a. Defeats against Alexander Nanew u. Yuri Vorobiev;
• 1988, without placement , OS in Seoul , F, Wed, with a victory over Andrzej Radomski , Poland a. Defeats against Mark Schultz u. Necmi Gencalp;
• 1989, 2nd place , Polish Grand Prix in Łódź , F, Wed, behind Necmi Gencalp;
• 1989, 7th place , EM in Ankara , F, Wed, with victories over Cedo Nikolovski u. Rahmat Soukra , Bulgaria a. Defeats against Pekka Rauhala , Finland a. Elmady Jabrailov , USSR;
• 1989, 11th place , World Cup in Martigny / Switzerland, F, Wed, with victories over Raul Cascaret , Cuba a . Franco Iglesias, Spain a. Defeats against Dimitri Markow, Bulgaria a. Josef Lohyna

German championships

• 1984, 1st place, F, Wed, before Harald Göschel, Freiburg im Breisgau a . Dieter Otto, Walheim ,
• 1985, 3rd place, F, Wed, behind Dieter Otto u. Thomas Mittermüller , Hallbergmoos ,
• 1986, 3rd place, F, Wed, behind Wolfgang Otto, Aldenhoven u. Dieter Otto,
• 1987, 1st place, F, Wed, in front of Wolfgang Otto u. Klaus Riesterer, Freiburg,
• 1989, 1st place, F, Wed, before Klaus Riesterer u. Thomas Mittermüller,
• 1990, 1st place, F, Wed, before Klaus Riesterer u. Ingo Manz , Witten ,
• 1991, 3rd place, F, Wed, behind Hans Gstöttner , Aalen u. Thomas Mittermüller

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer from 1982 to 1991,
• Intern. Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer publishing house , Niedernberg , 1991, pages 203 u. 229
• Website of the weight training club Winzeln

Web links

• Reiner Trik's profile at the Institute for Applied Training Science