Hans Gstöttner

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.