Konstantin Schneider

Konstantin Schneider
Personal information
Nationality  Germany
Born (1975-02-17) 17 February 1975
Bishkek, Kirgiz SSR, Soviet Union
Residence Püttlingen, Saarbrücken,
Germany
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Sport Wrestling
Event(s) Greco-Roman
Club KSV Köllerbach (GER)
Coached by Heinrich Schneider

Konstantin Schneider (born February 17, 1975 in Bishkek, Kirgiz SSR, Soviet Union) is an amateur German Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's middleweight category.[1] He won a silver medal for his division at the 2003 World Wrestling Championships in Créteil, France, and bronze at the 2005 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Hungary.[2][3] Schneider is also a member of the wrestling team for KSV Köllerbach in Püttlingen, and is coached and trained by his father Heinrich Schneider.[4]

Schneider made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed second in the preliminary pool of the men's 74 kg class, against Russia's Varteres Samurgashev, Ukraine's Volodymyr Shatskykh, and Sweden's Mohammad Babulfath.[5]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Schneider competed for the second time in the men's 74 kg class. He defeated Algeria's Messaoud Zeghdane in the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out the quarterfinal match to Georgia's Manuchar Kvirkvelia, who was able to score eight points in two straight periods, leaving Schneider without a single point.[6] Because his opponent advanced further into the final match, Schneider offered another shot for the bronze medal by entering the repechage rounds. Unfortunately, he was defeated in the first round by France's Christophe Guénot, with a two-set technical score (1–2, 1–2), and a classification point score of 1–3.[7]

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