Viktor Fischer (wrestler)

Viktor Fischer medal table
Wrestling
Austria
World Championship
gold	1920 Vienna	medium
European Championship
bronze	1912 Vienna	Light
bronze	1913 Budapest	Light
German fighting games
gold	1922 Berlin	medium
gold	1926 Cologne	medium

Viktor Fischer (born October 19, 1892 in Graz , † 1977 ) was an Austrian wrestler . He won the world championship title in Vienna in 1920 .

Career

Viktor Fischer grew up in Graz and started wrestling there as a teenager. As early as 1910, he participated with great success in many championships that were held at that time. He started in 1911 for the Viennese sports club in the Greco-Roman style in the light and middleweight classes, which was common in Central Europe at the time.

In 1912 and 1924 he took part in the Olympic Games in Stockholm and Paris . In Stockholm he won two fights in the lightweight, but lost the next two fights and came in 15th place out of 48 participants. In Paris he started in the middleweight division and achieved an excellent 5th place with four wins and two defeats.

Viktor Fischer celebrated his greatest success at the 1920 World Cup in Vienna . He won six fights and became world middleweight champion in a superior style. At the European Championships in Vienna in 1912 and in Budapest in 1913 Viktor had already won a bronze medal in the lightweight.

In 1921 Viktor Fischer moved to Cologne for economic reasons and joined the Cologne club for strength training in 1893. He continued to be very successful and was 1922 German fighting game winner in Berlin , 1923 German middleweight champion in Erfurt and again in 1926 German fighting game winner in Cologne middleweight.

Viktor Fischer won the Austrian championship title in 1912 in the lightweight, in 1919 in the middleweight and in 1924 in the light heavyweight division. In 1929 Viktor Fischer emigrated to Paraguay . But since he could not stand the local climate, he returned to Vienna in 1930. After the war Viktor Fischer lived in Albérstrasse. 9 in Graz, with his wife Emmy Fischer, born Kirsch, from Cologne, until his death.

successes

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Le = lightweight, Mi = middleweight, at that time up to 67.5 / 70 kg or 75 kg body weight)

• 1911, 1st place , championship of the Alpine countries, GR, Le;
• 1912, 3rd place , EM in Vienna , GR, Le, behind Oscar Kaplur , Russia and Rudolf Arsenschegg, Austria and in front of Paul Ribnikar and Josef Pospischil, bde. Austria;
• 1912, 15th place , OS in Stockholm , GR, Le, with victories over Frederick Hansen , Denmark and Thorbjörn Frydenlund , Norway and defeats against Gustaf Malmström , Sweden and Armas Laitinen , Finland ;
• 1913, 3rd place , EM in Budapest , GR, Le, behind Ödön Radvány , Hungary and Gottfrid Svensson , Sweden and in front of F. Radovszky, Hungary, Karel Halik, Bohemia and Volmar Vikström, Finland;
• 1913, 6th place , WM in Breslau , GR, Wed, behind Georg Baumann , Russia , Edvin Fältström , Sweden, Heinrich Stiefel, Germany , Martin Klein , Russia and Ernst Johansson, Sweden;
• 1920, 1st place , World Cup in Vienna, GR, Wed, ahead of Lorenz Koczanderle, Austria, Philipp Heß , Germany, Albert Schmeisz, Hungary, Josef Petrasek, Austria and Richard Falkner, Germany;
• 1922, 1st place , German fighting games in Berlin , GR, Wed, before Fritz Bräun , Fürth and Fritz Eichblatt, Mainz;
• 1923, 1st place , exhibition championship in Vienna, GR, Le, ahead of Hermann Baruch , Germany, Mihály Matura , Hungary and Ludwig Sesta , Austria
• 1923, 1st place , German championship in Erfurt , GR, Wed, ahead of Fritz Schürmann, Mülheim and Adolf Rieger , Berlin;
• 1924, 5th place , OS in Paris , GR, Wed, with victories over Giuseppe Gorletti , Italy , Andrea Gargano , Italy, Sándor Kónyi , Hungary and Oldřich Pštros , Czechoslovakia and defeats to Arthur Lindfors , Finland and Roman Steinberg , Estonia ;
• 1926, 1st place , German fighting games in Cologne, GR, Wed, in front of Fritz Schürmann and Alfred Kaspar, Koblenz

swell

• Trade journal "Athletik", No. 17/1929, page 4.
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976

Web links

• Profile of Viktor Fischer at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Viktor Fischer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Illustrated Österreichisches Sportblatt (digitized edition) with a photo by Viktor Fischer from 1920
• The Austrian wrestler at the 1912 Olympic Games with Viktor Fischer
• Illustrated Österreichisches Sportblatt (digitized edition) with a photo by Viktor Fischer from 1926