European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 36 the stars and stripes sports saturday december 10,1994 fir the defending olympic Bronze medallist at 150 pounds Rodney Smith of the All army wrestling team and his opponent 39-year-old former German Champion Michael Fuchs look for a ruling from the referee in their 165-Pound Greco roman match at Hanau. Smith wrestling a higher weight class than usual took a 6-5 overtime decision from Fuchs. Hanau supplies Welcome mat for army team the All army wrestling team shown in these photos during its Stop in Hanau Germany wrapped up its three week european tour monday with Competition in Haparanta Sweden. But for the Greco roman wrestlers on the team the real Competition is just beginning. . Wrestling has scheduled a preseason re ranking tournament to determine who la be on the . National Greco roman team for the first four months of 1995. The event runs wednesday Friday at the olympic training Center at Colo Rado Springs Colo. Hoping for one of those slots is the army s Rodney Smith Greco roman Bronze medallist at the 1992 Barcelona olympics and tour participant Smith however will have to overcome being three weeks behind in his training due to a fracture of a Lumbar Bone. Is photos by Ken George army s Jeff Flynn Bottom struggles toward mat s Edge As Volker Buttner tries to turn him for a possible score. Flynn won 18-8 Hessen All Star Claus Roth exults in his 5-1 Victory Over army s Alex Purchello. Army Kenny ens 8ains Point by throwing aus Roth but Roth won 3-2
