Willy scared

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Willy Angst
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Wrestler

Switzerland
European Championship
bronze 1935 Brussels World freestyle
silver 1937 Munich World freestyle

Willy afraid (* 20th November 1913 , † after 1948) was a Swiss wrestler and oscillators . He was fifth at the Olympic Games in 1936 in freestyle wrestling in welterweight and won a medal at the European Championships in the same style in 1935 and 1937.

Career

Willy Angst, from a sporty family from Henggart in the canton of Zurich , began as a teenager with the Swiss national sport wrestling and at the same time with freestyle wrestling. He was not able to achieve great success in the swing because he was too light with a body weight of approx. 75 kg for this sport, in which there are no weight classes. The best result known from him in wrestling is a 3rd place at the Zürcher Kantonal-Schwingertag 1934 in Kloten.

Willy Angst was able to achieve even greater success in freestyle wrestling. In 1935 he qualified for participation in the European Championships in Brussels . He won the welterweight division there over Paride Romagnoli from Italy , Maxime Lubat from France and William Fox from Great Britain . He then lost to Stig Andersson from Sweden and Fritz Schäfer from Germany and won a bronze medal .

At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, he started again in the welterweight division. He came there to victories over August Kukk from Estonia , Jaakko Pietilä from Finland and Kálmán Sóvári from Hungary . Against Joseph Schleimer from Canada and against Frank Lewis from the United States, he lost and finished in 5th place.

Willy Angst took second place at the 1937 European Championships in Munich. In the welterweight division he lost his first fight against Antti Mäki from Finland, but then defeated Thure Andersson from Sweden and again Kálmán Sóvári. He reached the final battle in which he lost to Fritz Schäfer.

In 1937 there was an international match in freestyle wrestling between Switzerland and Germany. Willy Angst achieved a point victory over Fritz Schäfer. He was also on the Swiss relay team, which competed in Mannheim in 1939 for another international match in freestyle wrestling against Germany. He was shouldered there in the middleweight division by Ludwig Schweickert from Berlin.

At the age of 35, he went welterweight at the 1948 Olympic Games in London . He lost his first fight there against Dick Garrard from Australia , then defeated Aleksanteri Keisala from Finland and lost his third fight against Kálmán Sóvári. These results earned him an 8th place.

Then he ended his active career and was still a referee.

literature

  • Professional magazines athletics and strength training .
  • Olle Larsson, Peter Irdén: Documentation of International Wrestling Championships 1896–1976. FILA, Lausanne 1976.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The welter weight allowed up to 72 kg body weight at that time, in 1946 it was changed to up to 73 kg.
  2. ^ Federal National Gymnastics Day in Freiburg. In: The deed . August 8, 1949, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Scared, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss wrestlers and wrestlers
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1913
DATE OF DEATH after 1948