Wolf-Rüdiger Schulz

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wolf-Rüdiger Schulz (born February 4, 1940 in Berlin-Spandau ) is a German water polo player and, as a participant in the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Berlin's first water polo Olympic participant after the Second World War .

Career

Wolf-Rüdiger Schulz was introduced to swimming at an early age, but switched to water polo, where he developed quickly and, as team captain, led the youth team from Spandau 04 to the North German championship and fourth place in the West German championship in 1957. At that time he was already integrated into the men's team. In 1959, Wolf-Rüdiger Schulz met the then national water polo coach Miklós Sárkány , who told the Spandauer Volksblatt that "borsch can become something". After several appearances in the junior national team, Wolf-Rüdiger Schulz was first set up for the men's national team in 1960. With this game against Sweden he was the first Berlin water polo player to perform internationally after the Second World War .

In 1962, Wolf-Rüdiger Schulz moved to ASC Duisburg , as personal advancement at Spandau 04 was considered difficult due to the island status of Berlin at the time. In 1963 and 1965, Wolf-Rüdiger Schulz won the German water polo championship with ASC Duisburg and was multiple German swimming champion. For the time being, however, Wolf-Rüdiger Schulz was unable to achieve international success. The 1962 European Championship in Leipzig was boycotted as a result of the building of the wall and after the defeat in the elimination game against the GDR in 1964 he also missed the ticket to the Olympic Games in Tokyo . It was not until 1966 that he was able to take part in the European Championships in Utrecht , where he took seventh place with the German selection. In the same year Wolf-Rüdiger Schulz returned to the SC Spandau 04 team, with which he won the Berlin championship in 1967 and 1968. Due to his performances during the tournaments he was also set up for the national selection for the Olympic Games in Mexico . During this period he was a guest player at SC Rote Erde Hamm . The disappointing ninth place in the Olympics was outweighed by his nomination to the Olympic dream team, which marked him as one of the best 14 players of the tournament. After the Olympic Games in 1968 Wolf-Rüdiger Schulz withdrew from the national team, but has remained active to this day. In 2000, at the age of 60, with a team of former Spandau national players, the Moby Dicks, he became world champion in the age group 35 and older. He still plays at the European and World Masters Championships in a team of SV Cannstatt and was German (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012), European (2007, 2009, 2011) and World Champion (2010 , 2012, 2014).

With the commitment of the successful coach Alfred Balens to Spandau 04 , Wolf-Rüdiger Schulz created the basis for the future success story of the club.

Private life

Wolf-Rüdiger Schulz studied business administration at the Free University of Berlin and worked until his retirement in 2005 as a business graduate . He married Waltraut Dautermann in 1984, with whom he has two children, Carsten and Alexander.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the Havel to the world, p. 72, Wasserfreunde Spandau 04, 2004
  2. ↑ "Der Spandauer Schwimmer", No. 44, 13th year, October 1961

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Wolf-Rüdiger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulle (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German water polo player and participant in the 1968 Olympic Games
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Spandau