Johannes Friedrich Herbert ( German: Johannes Friedrich Herbert ; October 12, 1912 , Groß-Zimmern , Hesse , Germany - Stuttgart , Baden-Württemberg , Germany ) - German freestyle wrestler, bronze medalist of the Olympic wrestling games. [one]
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| Full name | Johannes Friedrich Herbert |
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| Club | KV 1895 |
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Biography
He began to engage in wrestling in 1925.
In 1935 and 1936 he was a bronze medalist in the German Championship both in freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling. In the qualifying competitions, where he competed in particular with Jacob Brøndel , he was selected to participate in the Olympic Games, where he won a bronze medal in lightweight.
See tournament table
In 1938, he took second place in the German Greco-Roman wrestling championship. The war that began in 1939 stopped the wrestler's sports career.
After the war, he worked as a sports judge for a long time.
He died in 1978.
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Links
- Johannes Herbert - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Johannes Herbert - profile on International Wrestling Database