Overview
- German media report that Adolf Seger has died at age 81, with the Badische Zeitung named as the originating source and coverage carried by sportschau.de.
- Seger was one of West Germany’s dominant freestyle wrestlers in the 1970s, winning world titles in the mid-1970s and earning Olympic bronze medals in 1972 and 1976.
- He claimed three European championships and won ten straight German national titles, and he became known for the technical move called the 'Seger-Griff' that led to many pinned victories.
- Outside sport Seger worked for 42 years for the Deutsche Bundespost in Zähringen and gained a popular public profile as a local mail carrier and family man.
- After retiring from elite competition he won veterans’ world titles, supported children's cancer aid, received the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt and was inducted into the German sports Hall of Fame; no cause of death or funeral details have been published.