Hans Gstöttner

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexMale
Full nameHans•Gstöttner
Used nameHans•Gstöttner
Born2 December 1967 in Halle (Saale), Sachsen-Anhalt (GER)
Measurements176 cm / 82 kg
AffiliationsSV Halle, Halle (Saale) (GER)
NOC East Germany Germany

Biography

Middleweight freestyle wrestler Hans Gstöttner placed eighth at the 1988 Seoul Olympics representing East Germany. Four years later, then representing re-unified Germany, he finished an unfortunate fourth at Barcelona, losing the bronze medal match against the Iranian Rasoul Khadem Azgadhi.

At the World Championships, Gstöttner won a bronze medal in 1994, and at the Europeans, added a gold medal in 1990, silvers in 1988 and 1991, and a bronze in 1994. Nationally, he won the East German title in 1988, and German titles from 1991-96, and again in 1999. He later studied medicine and became a dermatologist with his own practice at Halle on Saale.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1988 Summer Olympics Wrestling GDR Hans Gstöttner
Middleweight, Freestyle, Men (Olympic) 8
1992 Summer Olympics Wrestling GER Hans Gstöttner
Middleweight, Freestyle, Men (Olympic) 4