Willibald Liebgott

Willibald Liebgott (born January 23, 1956 in Bruchsal ) is a former German wrestler .

Willibald Liebgott with the German national wrestling team 1981 (third from right)

Career

Willibald Liebgott started wrestling at ASV Bruchsal. There he developed into his outstanding freestyle wrestler, who soon moved to the Bundesliga club KSV Aalen . Later he was also on the mat for the North Baden club AV Reilingen and for KSV Wiesental. Willibald has already won several German championship titles in the youth and junior division. In 1974 he won (at the age of 18) his first medal in the senior middleweight division behind Adolf Seger from Freiburg and Bernhard Dunke from Efferen . Liebgott won his first German senior title in 1977 in the light heavyweight division.

Willibald Liebgott's international career was influenced by the fact that between 1975 and 1980 he competed in Adolf Seger, one of the world's best freestyle wrestlers, in his weight class, the middleweight division. He therefore had to move to the next higher weight class, the light heavyweight division, in which Peter Neumair from Hallbergmoos played a similar dominant role as Adolf Seger in the middleweight division.

Nevertheless, Willibald Liebgott came to some appearances at international championships and was able to achieve some quite good placements. However, he did not win medals at world and European championships. The best result he achieved was a very good 5th place at the 1982 European Championships in Varna . He also took 6th place in the light heavyweight division at the 1977 European Championships in Bursa and the 1979 European Championships in Bucharest .

With the AV Reilingen, Willibald Liebgott celebrated a great success in 1982 when they managed to win the German team championship against the high favorites KSV Witten 07. In 1985 he also won the German team title with KSV Wiesental. Willibald Liebgott learned the trade of butcher and later became a contract soldier.

International success

(WM = world championship, EM = European championship, F = free style, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, S = heavyweight, back then up to 82 kg, 90 kg and 100 kg body weight)

year	space	competition	style	Weight class	Remarks
1974	4th	Tournament in Freiburg im Breisgau	F.	Wed	behind Angel Borissow , Bulgaria , Frantisek Kampik, Poland and Mehmet Öztürk , Turkey ;
1974	5	Junior European Championship in Haparanda	F.	Wed	behind Alexander Solowjew, USSR , Iussuf Mustafow, Bulgaria, Andras Buras, Hungary u. Leszek Patro, Poland a. before Jean Yves Monnier, France ;
1977	6th	EM in Bursa	F.	Hs	with a victory over Michele Azzola, Italy and defeats against Ismail Temiz , Turkey a. Churki Lutwiew , Bulgaria;
1978	4th	Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany	F.	Wed	behind Iwan Danko, USSR, Peter Syring , GDR a . Jan Mazur , Poland a. before Adolf Seger , FRG;
1979	6th	EM in Bucharest	F.	Hs	behind Uwe Neupert , GDR , Alash Daudow, USSR, Iwan Guinow , Bulgaria, Tomasz Busse , Poland and others. Petre Solyom, Hungary;
1979	2	EC championship in Manchester	F.	Hs	behind Michele Azzola u. before Christophe Andanson, France, Heinz Lengthaler, Austria a . Herman Wittock, Belgium ;
1979	11	World Cup in San Diego	F.	Hs	after defeats against Kazan Ortkujew , USSR a. Michele Azzola;
1981	4th	Tournament in Miskolc	F.	Hs	behind Attila Szakkai, Hungary, Patalong, Poland and Sandor Kiss, Hungary;
1981	15th	World Cup in Skopje	F.	Hs	after defeats against Sanasar Oganessian , USSR a. Dan Lewis, USA;
1982	5	EM in Varna	F.	Hs	behind Iwan Guinow, Petr Naniew , USSR, Ismail Temiz u. Attila Szakkai et al. before Helmut Weickert, GDR

German championships

• 1974, 3rd place, F, Wed, behind Adolf Seger , Freiburg im Breisgau a . Bernhard Dunke, Efferen ;
• 1976, 2nd place, F, Wed, behind Adolf Seger u. in front of Hubert Krämer , Haslach im Kinzigtal ,
• 1977, 1st place, F, Hs, before Bruno Kastner, Burghausen a . Hubert Kramer,
• 1978, 2nd place, F, Hs, behind Peter Neumair , Hallbergmoos u. in front of Michael Zimmermann, Lampertheim ,
• 1979, 2nd place, F, Wed, behind Adolf Seger u. in front of Alexander Senn , Freiburg,
• 1981, 1st place, F, Hs, ahead of Ralf Bremmer , Westerfilde a . Gerhard Stein, Kirrlach ,
• 1982, 3rd place, F, Hs, behind Aleksander Cichoń , Freiburg a. Winfried Colling , Aldenhoven ,
• 1983, 1st place, F, S, in front of Josef Stegmair, Aichach u. Viktor Müller, Köllerbach ,
• 1984, 3rd place, F, Hs, behind Bodo Lukowski , Witten a . Stefan Schäfer, Hösbach

swell

• Various issues of the specialist magazines Athletik from 1974 and 1975 and Der Ringer from 1976 to 1984,
• One hundred years of wrestling in Germany , Der Ringer publishing house , Niedernberg, 1991, pages 188, 229 and 230

Web links

• Profile of Willibald Liebgott at the Institute for Applied Training Science