Frank Stäbler brings the Olympic bronze in the rings - medal
In the last fight of his career, Ringer Frank Stäbler still fulfilled his athletic life. The three-time world champion won in Tokyo on Wednesday one of the small finals of weight class up to 67 kilograms and brought his long-awaited first Olympic medal with bronze. The 5: 4 about the Georgian Ramas Soidse was the worthy end of his impressive career.
Staff pulled out symbolically on the mat his wrecks and bowed in front of the other athletes, caregivers and helpers in the hall, who applauded him long and appreciatingly.
He would have liked to win gold in his last tournament, but had failed in the quarterfinals on Tuesday but just under Mohammad Reza Geraei failed. Since the Iranian reached the final afterwards, the 32-year-old was allowed to ran again in the Hopelung Round. "The tension was of course enormous," said Greek-Roman national coach Michael Carl over the hours of the Bangens in front of the semi-finals on Tuesday evening.
from 75 down to 67 kilograms
In the hope of being able to intervene on Wednesday again in the struggle to intervene the medals, Stäbler had started again directly after his return to the Olympic Village to reduce its weight. Normally he weighs about 75 kilograms, in Tokyo he was allowed to bring only 67 kilograms to the scales in the morning control. It is a weeklong tortur that the Swabe for his international appearances takes up again and again. And that cost him even more power than in former years.
According to Trainer Carl, "huge" was the relief in the German camp, when Geraei then actually reached the final fight and stagers still in the Hopping Round Hievte. In the Schwabe first defeated the Colombian Julian Stiven Horta Acevedo. Then he finally bothered his Olympia curse with the victory over Saidse.
For years, Stäbler had hunted a medal at the largest sports event in the world - twice he missed her unhappy. In London, he lost his bronze fight against the Georgian Manuchar Chadaia and became fifth. In 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, he retired by a foot injury in the quarterfinals and then lost in the Hopping Round. Now in Tokyo he threatened again empty.
Shoulder injury and coronain fiction
The preparation for its large farewell performance was anything but optimal. For a long time, stencbers have been struggling with the consequences of a shoulder jarring joint. In addition, he infected himself with the coronavirus last fall. Since then he sets special breath therapy. In the sum, the laying of the games was a disadvantage for the exceptional athletes.
Despite his many successes, stencils felt unfinished before the event in Japan. The Olympic Medal is "the last mosaic stone still missing," he had said. Now he has it. The longtime rendering leader who has shaped his sport in this country like hardly any other, leaves the mat as a triumphant.
Fights around 3 Frank Stäbler (Musberg) \ - Ramas Sidse (Georgia) 5: 4; Mohamed Ibrahim Elsayed Ibrahi Elsayed (Egypt) - Artem Surkow (Russian Olympus. Committee) 1: 1
Final Mohammadreza Abdolhamid (Iran) - Parvis Nasibow (Ukraine) 9: 1 Technical superiority
