Werner Hettich

Werner Hettich (born March 12, 1946 ) is a former German wrestler . He was Vice European Champion in 1969 in the Greco-Roman style featherweight.

Career

Hettich comes from Vörstetten in southern Baden . He began wrestling as a teenager at the local athletics club. During his entire career, he did not concentrate on one style, but worked in both styles, Greco-Roman and free style. In 1963 he was German youth champion in the Greco-Roman style in the class up to 57 kg body weight, which he followed in 1964 in the free style in the same weight class.

He was also successful in the next age group, the juniors, at the German championships. Although he took second place behind Eduard Schwaben from Aschaffenburg at the German junior championship in 1965 in the Greco-Roman style in bantamweight , he won the junior title in free style in featherweight a year later, in 1966.

In 1966, Hettich was also very successful with senior citizens. He became German featherweight masters both in the Greco-Roman style and in the free style. In the course of his further career, in which he moved to Bundesliga club AV Freiburg-St.Georgen in 1968, he won four other German championship titles, three in the Greco-Roman style and one in the free style.

Hettich's international wrestling career also began in 1966. That year, he finished 12th at the European Championships in Karlsruhe in free style. In the next few years he was at the start several times at world and European championships. He placed between places 5 (World Championship 1969, free style in Mar del Plata ) and 9 (European Championship 1968 in Greco-Roman style in Västerås ). The best result of his career he achieved at the European Championships in Modena in 1969 , where the strong wrestlers from the Eastern Bloc countries were missing because the Italian starter refused to fly the flag of the GDR . He used this opportunity in his favor and achieved an excellent 2nd place in Modena with five wins. Only in the final did he have to surrender to Metin Alakoc from Turkey .

At the 1972 European Championships in Katowice he was so badly injured after his first three fights that he had to give up the tournament and was unable to contest the subsequent qualifying tournaments for the Olympic Games.

After this disappointment, Werner Hettich ended his wrestling career.

International success

(WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style, bantamweight, then up to 57 kg, featherweight, then up to 62 kg, lightweight, then up to 68 kg body weight)

year	space	competition	style	Weight class
1966	12.	EM in Karlsruhe	F.	feather	after defeats against Jozsef Kellermann, Hungary a . Elkan Tedejew , USSR
1967	4th	Tournament in Klippan / Sweden	F.	feather	behind Leif Freij , Sweden, Korzen, Poland u. Jürgen Schaarschmidt, GDR
1968	9.	EM in Västerås	GR	feather	with victories over Imre Baracsi, Hungary a . Leonard Dutz, Belgium a . Defeats against Yuri Grigoryev , USSR a. Martti Laakso , Finland
1968	8th.	EM in Skoplje	F.	feather	with a victory over Tadeusz Godyn, Poland a. Defeats against Hans-Jürgen Luczak , GDR a. József Rusznyák , Hungary
1969	2.	EM in Modena	GR	feather	with victories over Harry van Langhedem, Belgium, Slawko Koletic , Yugoslavia , Jakob Tanner , Switzerland , Michele Toma, Italy a . Roland Svensson, Sweden a. a loss to Metin Alakoc , Turkey
1969	7th	World Cup in Mar del Plata	GR	feather	with a victory over Carlos Torres, Argentina a . Defeats against Roman Rurua , USSR a. James Hazewinkel , USA
1969	5.	World Cup in Mar del Plata	F.	feather	with victories over Wilfredo Benitez, Ecuador a . Bill Jensen, Canada a . Losses against Takeo Moreta, Japan and Enju Todorow , Bulgaria
1970	5.	Tournament in Klippan	GR	feather	behind Tulupow u. Schepkow, bde. USSR, Davidsen, Norway a. Ralf Schröter , GDR
1970	7th	World Cup in Edmonton	GR	feather	with a victory over Francesco Scuderi, Italy a. Defeats against Martti Laakso u. Hideo Fujimoto, Japan
1971	3.	Tournament in Klippan	GR	feather	behind Heinz-Helmut Wehling , GDR a. Mubaryamov, USSR
1972	1.	Tournament in Fredriksvaerk / Denmark	GR	feather	before Poul Henriksen u. Rene Köhn, bde. Denmark
1972	unpl.	EM in Katowice	GR	feather	after victories over Michel Ballery, France , Poul Henriksen a. Ralf Schröter resigned due to injury

International battles

• 1967, Federal Republic of Germany against Sweden , F, Fe, point defeat against Johansson,
• 1967, Romania against Federal Republic of Germany, F, Fe, tie against Gheorghe,
• 1967, Romania against the Federal Republic of Germany, GR, Fe, victory against Bolocan,
• 1968, Romania against Federal Republic of Germany, F, Fe, point victory over Alionescu,
• 1968, Romania against Federal Republic of Germany, F, Fe, point victory against Popa,
• 1968, Federal Republic of Germany against Italy , F, Fe, point victory over Arcangelo Patrono,
• 1968, Federal Republic of Germany against Yugoslavia , F, Fe, point victory over Marinko,
• 1968, Federal Republic of Germany against Austria , F, Fe, shoulder victory over Mollich,
• 1968, Federal Republic of Germany against Switzerland , F, Fe, shoulder victory over Steiger,
• 1970, Federal Republic of Germany against Poland , GR, Fe, point defeat against Kazimierz Lipień

German championships

• 1966, 1st place , GR, Fe, in front of Fritz Hagen, ASV Nendingen a . Bernd Fleig , SV Freiburg-Haslach
• 1966, 1st place , F, Fe, in front of Fritz Schrader , KSV Witten u. Berthold Oßwald, Stuttgart -Münster,
• 1967, 2nd place , GR, Fe, behind Fritz Schrader u. before Otto Mink, Frankfurt am Main 86,
• 1967, 2nd place , F, Fe, behind Fritz Schrader u. in front of Waldemar Schöffler, AV Freiburg-St.Georgen,
• 1968, 2nd place , GR, Fe, behind Fritz Schrader u. in front of Bernd Fleig,
• 1968, 1st place , F, Fe, before Fritz Schrader a. Bruno Steinmetz, ASV Mainz 1888 ,
• 1969, 1st place , GR, Fe, in front of Bernd Fleig u. Otto Mink,
• 1970, 1st place , GR, Fe, in front of Bernd Fleig u. Eduard Schwaben, Aschaffenburg ,
• 1973, 1st place , GR, Fe, ahead of Harald Buchfink, ASV Daxlanden u. Alfons Sahner, KSV Hüttigweiler ,
• 1973, 2nd place , F, Le, behind Klaus Rost , KSV Witten u. in front of Gerhard Weisenberger , Aschaffenburg,
• 1974, 3rd place , F, Fe, behind Eduard Giray , AV Freiburg-St.Georgen u. Reiner Brockhoff, KSV Witten

swell

• Athletics magazine from 1963 to 1974
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of FILA , 1976, pages E-44, E-59, E-62, E-65, E-85, W-81, W-83 and others. W-87
• Hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer publishing house , Niedernberg , 1991, pages 182, 213, 225 u. 227
• 1972 yearbook of the German Wrestling Association , Athletik- Verlag, Karlsruhe , 1972, pages 199 and. 212

Web link

• Profile of Werner Hettich at the Institute for Applied Training Science