Frank Stäbler

German Greco-Roman wrestler

Frank Stäbler

Stäbler in 2014

Personal information
Born|  (1989-06-27) 27 June 1989 (age 36)
Böblingen, West Germany
Height| 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight| 66 kg (146 lb)
Website| Frank-Staebler.com
Sport
Country|  Germany[1]
Sport| Wrestling
Event| Greco-Roman
Club| TSV Musberg
Red Devils Heilbronn [2]
Coached by| Janis Zamanduridis[3]

Medal record

Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Representing  Germany
Olympic Games
| 2020 Tokyo | 67 kg
World Championships
| 2015 Las Vegas | 66 kg
| 2017 Paris | 71 kg
| 2018 Budapest | 72 kg
| 2013 Budapest | 66 kg
| 2019 Nur-Sultan | 67 kg
European Games
| 2015 Baku | 71 kg
European Championships
| 2012 Belgrade | 66 kg
| 2020 Rome | 72 kg
| 2014 Vantaa | 66 kg

Frank Stäbler (also spelled Staebler; born 27 June 1989) is a German Greco-Roman wrestler. He won the 2012 European Championship and 2015 World Championship in the welterweight category.[1][3] Stäbler trains at TSV Musberg in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany, coached by Janis Zamanduridis from the national wrestling team.

## Career

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Stäbler represented Germany at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed in the 66 kg class in men's Greco-Roman wrestling. He received a bye for the second preliminary match, before losing out to Hungary's Tamás Lőrincz, who was able to score six points in two straight periods, leaving Stäbler with a single point.[4] Because his opponent advanced further into the final match, Stäbler offered another shot for the bronze medal by successfully defeating United States' Justin Lester in the repechage bout. However, he lost the bronze medal match to Georgia's Manuchar Tskhadaia, who pushed him out of the wrestling mat in the third period, with a score of 1–3.[5]

## International achievements

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Year | Rank | Competition | Weight class | Achievement

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2005 | 7. | Junior-ECh (Cadets) in Tirana | under 50 kg | Winner: David Musaev (Russia)
2006 | 3. | Junior-ECh (Cadets) in Istanbul | under 58 kg | after Rahman Bilici (Rumania) und Ibrahim Erdzhan (Bulgaria)
2009 | 3. | Junior-ECh in Tiflis | Light | after win over Benedikt Puffer (Austria), Paata Bakunidse (Georgia), Mate Hencz (Slovakia) und Oskar Parra Fernandez (Spain) and loss against Jakub Tim (Poland)
2009 | 3. | Junior-WCh in Ankara | Light | after win over Sebastian Brandström (Sweden), and loss against Saeid Abdevali
2010 | 1. | Intern. Tournamentin Sassari | Light | after Christian Fetzer and Marcus Thätner
2010 | 12. | ECh in Baku | Light | after win in points over Frederik Ekström (Denmarn)
2011 | 3. | Granma-Cerro Pelado-Cup in Havana | Light | after Reineri Salas Perez und Reinier Lescuy (both from Cuba)
2011 | 7. | Wladiyslaw-Pytlasinski-Memorial in Radom | Light | Winner: Ambako Vachadze (Russia)
2011 | 5. | WM in Istanbul | Light | after win in points over Ivan de Jesus Duque Arango (Columbia), Mateusz Wanke (Poland) and Darchan Bajachmedow (Kazakhstan)
2012 | 1. | "Thor-Masters" in Nykøbing Falster | Light | after win over Juri Denisow (Russia), Artyom Wesialonu (Belarus), Marius Thommesen (Norway), Danielo de Feola (Sweden) und Mateusz Wanke (Poland)
2012 | 2. | Granma-Cerro Pelado-Cup in Havanna | Light | after win over Tiziano Corriga (Italy) und Miguel Martinez (Cuba) and loss against Pedro Mulens Herrera (Cuba)
2012 | 1. | ECh in Belgrad | Light | after win over Sergejs Mironovs (Latvia), Ove Günther (Sweden), Hugo Da Silva Passos (Portugal), Alexander Maksimovic (Serbia) und Georgian Carpen (Rumania)
2012 | 1. | Gran Prix of Germany in Dortmund | Light | after win over Ondrej Ulip (Czech Republic), Matthias Maasch (Germany), Alan Dschakajew (Ukraine) und Hassan Alijew (Azerbaijan)
2012 | 5. | OG in London | Light | after win over Justin Lester (USA) and loss against Tamás Lőrincz (Hungary), Manuchar Chadaia (Georgia)
2013 | 1. | Gran Prix of Germany in Dortmund | Light | after win over Andreas Eisenkrein (Germany), Edgar Melkumow (Poland), Marius Thomessen (Norway) und Daniel Janecis (Croatia)
2013 | 1. | "Ion-Cerneanu"-Memorial in Târgoviște | Light | after win over Georgian Carpen (Rumania), Alexander Chwoschtsch und Witali Kononow (both from Ukraine)
2013 | 3. | WCh in Budapest | Light | after win over Yerbol Konitarov (Kazakhstan), Edgaras Venckaitis (Lithuania), Hasan Aliyev (Azerbaijan) and loss against Islambek Albijew (Russia)
2014 | 3. | ECh in Vantaa | Light | after win over Davor Stefanek (Serbia), Marius Thommesen (Norway) and loss against Hasan Aliyev (Azerbaijan)
2014 | 3. | "Wladyslaw-Pytlasinski"-Memorial in Danzig | Light | behind Hamid Sokyano, Iran and Dominik Etlinger, Croatia, together with Edgaras Venckaitis
2014 | 1. | Intern. Tournament in Bucharest | Light | after win over Jung Ji-hyun (South Korea), Georgian Carpen and Yunus Özel (Turkey)
2014 | 5. | WCh in Tashkent | Light |
2015 | 3. | 1st European Games in Baku | under 71 kg | after win over Woitiech Jakus (Slovakia); Pavel Lyach (Belarus); Zacharias Tallroth (Sweden); and Mindia Zukulidse (Georgia); and loss against Balint Korpasi (Hungary)
2015 | 1. | WCh in Las Vegas | under 66 kg | after win over Hansu Ryu, Bryce Saddoris and Davor Stefanek
2017 | 1. | Gran Prix of Poland in Warsaw[6] | under 71 kg | after win over Danijel Janecic (Croatia), Takeshi Izumi (Japan) and Balint Korpasi (Hungary)
2017 | 1. | WCh in Paris | under 71 kg | after win over Demeu Zhadrayev (Kazakhstan), Mohammad Ali Geraei (Iran)
2018 | 1. | WCh in Budapest | under 72 kg | after win over Georgi Khutchua (Georgia), Abuiazid Mantsigov (Russia), Demeu Zhadrayev (Kazakhstan), Rasul Chunayev (Azerbaijan) und Bálint Korpási (Hungary).

* all competitions are held in Greco-Roman style of wrestling
* OG – Olympic Games; ECh – European Championships; WCh – World Championships
* Light weight is a class under 66 kg in UWW classification.

## German Championships

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(only Senior)

Year | Place | Weight class | Comment

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2009 | 10 | Light | Winner: Christian Fetzer ( TSV Herbrechtingen)
2010 | 2 | Light | lost to Christian Fetzer
2011 | 3 | Light | lost to Marcus Thätner and Christian Fetzer
2013 | 1 | Light | win against Toni Stade (RSV Greiz), Sven Dürmeier (SV Johannis Nürnberg) and Benjamin Raiser (ASV Nendingen)
2015 | 1 | Light | win against Maximilian Schwabe (KSV Pausa), Fabian Reiner (KSV Tennenbronn) and Sven Dürmeier (SV Johannis Nürnberg)

## Trivia

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Stäbler's logo, which appears on the official merchandise, his video diary and printed media, is a jumping squirrel. During the final fight in 2012 European Wrestling Championships, Stäbler literally jumped on the opponent and won the title of European champion 2012. Later, this jump was called as "squirrel jump" (orig. "Eichhörnchen Sprung") by German journalists.[7]

## References

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1. ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Frank Stäbler". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 December 2012.
2. ^ "Ringer-Weltmeister Stäbler wechselt nach Heilbronn". Die Welt. 12 April 2017.
3. ^ a b "Frank Stäbler". London 2012. Archived from the original on 2 April 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
4. ^ "Men's 66kg Greco-Roman Round of 16 Final". London 2012. Archived from the original on 1 April 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
5. ^ "Men's 66kg Greco-Roman Bronze Medal". London 2012. Archived from the original on 30 October 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
6. ^ "Stäbler überrascht: Sieg gegen Weltmeister".
7. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany (7 August 2012). "London 2012: Der deutsche Ringer Frank Stäbler".

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Frank Stäbler.

* Frank Staebler at the International Wrestling Database
* Frank Staebler at United World Wrestling
* Frank Staebler at Olympics.com
* Frank Staebler at Olympic.org (archived)
* Frank Staebler at NBC 2012 Olympics website at archive.today (archived 16 February 2013)
* Frank Stäbler at Team Deutschland (in German)
* Frank Stäbler — Olympic medal hope of Germany, Der Spiegel (in German)
* Official website (in German)

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World Wrestling Champions in Greco-Roman lightweight

* 1921:  Oskari Friman (FIN)
* 1922:  Edvard Westerlund (FIN)
* 1950:  József Gál (HUN)
* 1953:  Gustav Freij (SWE)
* 1955:  Grigory Gamarnik (URS)
* 1958:  Rıza Doğan (TUR)
* 1961:  Avtandil Koridze (URS)
* 1962:  Kazım Ayvaz (TUR)
* 1963:  Stevan Horvat (YUG)
* 1965:  Gennady Sapunov (URS)
* 1966:  Stevan Horvat (YUG)
* 1967:  Eero Tapio (FIN)
* 1969:  Simion Popescu (ROM)
* 1970:  Roman Rurua (URS)
* 1971:  Sreten Damjanović (YUG)
* 1973:  Shamil Khisamutdinov (URS)
* 1974:  Nelson Davidyan (URS)
* 1975:  Shamil Khisamutdinov (URS)
* 1977:  Heinz-Helmut Wehling (GDR)
* 1978:  Ștefan Rusu (ROM)
* 1979:  Andrzej Supron (POL)
* 1981:  Gennady Ermilov (URS)
* 1982:  Gennady Ermilov (URS)
* 1983:  Tapio Sipilä (FIN)
* 1985:  Ștefan Negrișan (ROM)
* 1986:  Levon Julfalakyan (URS)
* 1987:  Aslaudin Abaev (URS)
* 1989:  Claudio Passarelli (FRG)
* 1990:  Islam Dugushiev (URS)
* 1991:  Islam Dugushiev (URS)
* 1993:  Islam Dugushiev (RUS)
* 1994:  Islam Dugushiev (RUS)
* 1995:  Rustam Adzhi (UKR)
* 1997:  Son Sang-pil (KOR)
* 1998:  Aleksandr Tretyakov (RUS)
* 1999:  Son Sang-pil (KOR)
* 2001:  Filiberto Azcuy (CUB)
* 2002:  Jimmy Samuelsson (SWE)
* 2003:  Manuchar Kvirkvelia (GEO)
* 2005:  Nikolay Gergov (BUL)
* 2006:  Li Yanyan (CHN)
* 2007:  Farid Mansurov (AZE)
* 2009:  Farid Mansurov (AZE)
* 2010:  Ambako Vachadze (RUS)
* 2011:  Saeid Abdevali (IRI)
* 2013:  Ryu Han-su (KOR)
* 2014:  Davor Štefanek (SRB)
* 2015:  Frank Stäbler (GER)
* 2017:  Ryu Han-su (KOR)
* 2018:  Artem Surkov (RUS)
* 2019:  Ismael Borrero (CUB)
* 2021:  Mohammad Reza Geraei (IRI)
* 2022:  Mate Nemeš (SRB)
* 2023:  Luis Orta (CUB)

* 1921–1922: 67.5 kg
* 1950–1961: 67 kg
* 1962–1967: 70 kg
* 1969–1995: 68 kg
* 1997–2001: 69 kg
* 2002–2017: 66 kg
* 2018–present: 67 kg

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World Wrestling Champions in Greco-Roman light welterweight

* 2014:  Chingiz Labazanov (RUS)
* 2015:  Rasul Chunayev (AZE)
* 2016:  Bálint Korpási (HUN)
* 2017:  Frank Stäbler (GER)
* 2018:  Frank Stäbler (GER)
* 2019:  Abuyazid Mantsigov (RUS)
* 2021:  Malkhas Amoyan (ARM)
* 2022:  Ali Arsalan (SRB)
* 2023:  Ibrahim Ghanem (FRA)
* 2024:  Ulvu Ganizade (AZE)

* 2014–2017: 71 kg
* 2018–present: 72 kg

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*[URS]: Soviet Union
*[TUR]: Turkey
*[YUG]: Yugoslavia
*[ROM]: Romania
*[GDR]: East Germany
*[POL]: Poland
*[FRG]: West Germany
*[RUS]: Russia
*[UKR]: Ukraine
*[KOR]: South Korea
*[CUB]: Cuba
*[GEO]: Georgia
*[BUL]: Bulgaria
*[CHN]: China
*[AZE]: Azerbaijan
*[IRI]: Iran
*[SRB]: Serbia
*[GER]: Germany
*[ARM]: Armenia
*[FRA]: France