Uwe Sachs

Uwe Sachs (born April 5, 1959 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a former German wrestler , Olympic gold medalist in 1984 in Greco-Roman. Light heavyweight style.

Career

Uwe Sachs began as a teenager in Freiburg with the rings . He was a member of SV Freiburg-Haslach throughout his career. In this club he became a wrestler in Greco-Roman. Trained style. At the age of 13 he became a German master student in the class up to 56 kg body weight (today C-youth). This victory was followed by several German championships in the youth and junior division. In 1980 Uwe Sachs won his first German championship title in the light heavyweight division, ahead of Pedro Pawlidis from Aalen , who he had six more follow up to 1986.

On the international wrestling mat, Uwe placed in the junior area at three championships in the front field. In 1977 he finished 4th at the Junior World Championships in Las Vegas in the middleweight division, in 1978 he won the bronze medal at the Junior European Championships in Oulu and in 1979 he was the 5th winner in the light heavyweight division at the Junior World Championships in Haparanda .

In 1981 Uwe started for the first time in an international senior championship. In Gothenburg he reached a good 6th place at the European light heavyweight championships. He celebrated u. a. Victories over Thomas Horschel from the GDR (5: 2 point victory) and last year's Olympic champion in Moscow Norbert Növényi from Hungary (6: 3 point victory).

He could not repeat this success in the following years. He ended up in the world and European championships in which he participated, no longer in the front field. The 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles were an exception . There he won his first three fights and after a defeat against the Romanian Ilie Matei against the Swedish world champion Frank Andersson fought for the bronze medal. Uwe was able to keep this fight open for a long time, but then finally lost with 0: 5 points and thus came in 4th place.

In 1986 Uwe Sachs, who was a member of the Bundeswehr during his time as an active wrestler, ended his international career.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, then up to 82 kg or 90 kg body weight)

• 1977, 4th place , Junior World Championship in Las Vegas , GR, Wed, behind Banjew, USSR , Fodor, Hungary a . Bozirew, Bulgaria and before Steven Fraser , USA ;

• 1978, 3rd place , European Junior Championship in Oulu , GR, Hs, behind Sergej Golubowitsch , USSR a . Krassimir Krumow , Bulgaria a. before Hannu Kinnunen, Finland a . Christer Gulldén , Sweden ;

• 1978, 2nd place , tournament in Klaus near Salzburg , GR, Wed, behind Franz Pitschmann , Austria and in front of Dall'Ala, Italy ;

• 1979, 1st place , intern. Tournament in Arlon / Belgium , GR, Hs, in front of René Trüby u. Kai Staab, bde. FRG;

• 1979, 5th place , Junior World Championships in Haparanda , GR, Hs, behind Valeri Schdanow, USSR, Christer Gulldén, Grzegorz Wilczewski, Poland a. Atanas Komtschew , Bulgaria a. before Michael Löbnitz, GDR ;

• 1980, 1st place , tournament in Klaus b. Salzburg, Gr, Hs, before Jan Szatkowski, Poland a. Georgios Pozidis , Greece ;

• 1981, 6th place , EM in Gothenburg , GR, Hs, with victories over Pal Berger, Norway , Thomas Horschel , GDR a. Norbert Növényi , Hungary a. Losses against Alexander Dubrowski , USSR, Georgios Pozidis a. Atanas Komchev;

• 1982, unpl. , EM in Varna , GR, Hs, resignation due to injury in the first fight against Karoly Kopas, Yugoslavia ;

• 1982, 13th place , World Championship in Katowice , GR, Hs, after defeats against Frank Andersson , Sweden (3: 5 point defeat) and Al Dong, China ;

• 1983, 4th place , "Stanislaus Pytalinski" tournament in Warsaw , GR, Hs, behind Krosni, Bulgaria, Norbert Növenyi u. Dabrowski, Poland;

• 1983, 11th place , EM in Budapest, GR, Hs, after defeats against Dabrowski a. Igor Kanygin , USSR;

• 1983, 10th place , World Championship in Kiev , GR, Hs, with a victory over Toni Hannula , Finland a . Defeats against Atanas Komchev a. Georgios Pozidis;

• 1983, 3rd place , CISM military world championship in Villeurbanne / France, GR, Hs, behind Georgios Pozidis, Picconello, Italy a. in front of Torabi, Iran a . Craig Pittman , USA;

• 1984, 2nd place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Freiburg im Breisgau , GR, Hs, behind Igor Kanygin u. before Ilie Matei , Romania , Franz Marx, Austria a. Dusan Masar , CSSR ;

• 1984, 7th place , EM in Jönköping , GR, Hs, winner: Atanas Komtschew in front of Igor Kanygin, Georgios Pozidis u. Ilie Matei;

• 1984, 4th place , OS in Montreal , GR, Hs, with victories over Ibrahim, Egypt, Franz Marx, Austria a. Jean-Francois Court, France a. Defeats against Ilie Matei u. Frank Andersson;

• 1984, 1st place , CISM Military World Championships in Philadelphia , GR, Hs;

• 1985, 3rd place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg , GR, Hs, behind Igor Kanygin u. Franz Pitschmann u. before Reiner Weber, FRG, Bakker, Netherlands a. Spiashvili, Israel ;

• 1985, 13th place , EM in Leipzig , GR, Hs, after defeats against Franz Pitschmann a. Andrzej Malina , Poland

German championships

• 1977, 3rd place, GR, Wed, behind Kurt Spaniol , Köllerbach u. Toni Kunkel, AC Goldbach ,
• 1979, 2nd place, GR, Hs, behind Pedro Pawlidis , Aalen u. in front of Kai Staab, Goldbach,
• 1980, 1st place, GR, Hs, before Pedro Pawlidis a. Wolfgang Deffner, Kaltental ,
• 1981, 1st place, GR, Hs, before Reiner Weber, Nuremberg a . Pedro Pawlidis,
• 1982, 1st place, GR, Hs, ahead of Pedro Pawlidis a. Rene Trüby, Hausen-Zell ,
• 1983, 1st place, GR, Hs, before Reiner Weber u. Wolfgang Graupeter, Graben-Neudorf ,
• 1984, 1st place, GR, Hs, in front of Franz Seelos, Schifferstadt a . Reiner Weber,
• 1985, 1st place, GR, Hs, before Reiner Weber u. Gerhard Himmel , Aschaffenburg ,
• 1986, 1st place, GR, Hs, ahead of Roger Gries , Mömbris -Königshofen u. H.-Dieter Schulz

swell

• Div. Issues of the journal "Der Ringer" from 1977 to 1986,
• "Hundred Years of Wrestling in Germany", Verlag "Der Ringer", Niedernberg, 1991,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976,

Web links

• Profile of Uwe Sachs at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Uwe Sachs in the chronicle of SV Freiburg-Haslach