Apologies to the opponent: Staudenmann really wanted this victory

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Fabian Staudenmann (23) finished second eight times last year. He has not won a single wreath festival. Now, a year later, the Guggisberger is in the shape of his life. Staudenmann swings from festival victory to festival victory. Only the victory at a mountain festival was missing from the 2021 Kilchberg winner.

Fabian Staudenmann has now successfully completed this mission at Schwarzsee, just 15 kilometers from his home in Guggisberg. And how. In the lunch break, the Mittellander leads with 30 points together with the local hero Lario Kramer from Fribourg. To the delight of the audience, there is a direct duel in aisle number four. But Kramer has nothing to say to the Bernese and is lying on his back after two minutes.

Keep the ball flat

Before the last walk, Staudenmann seems relaxed as always. Will he now get his first victory at a mountain festival? “We’ll see in an hour and a half,” he replies with a grin. He also wanted to keep the ball as flat as possible beforehand. “Typical Swiss,” he says. His opponent in the final is Adrian Walther (21). The two Mittelland countries have already faced each other at three regional wrestling festivals this year, and Walther only managed to get a chance once. Such a Staudenmann would be enough for the festival victory. The aspiring math student has long done the calculation.

Staudenmann does not show his best swing in the last course, but tries to exhaust Walther. The strategy works. Both wrestlers pant heavily when the posed is a fact after 12 minutes, just like the festival victory.

He even restores his own honor. “Swinging so destructively is really not my style. I apologized to Adrian. But I really wanted this victory,” explains Staudenmann. Not only because he won his first mountain wreath festival with it. But also because Schwarzsee-Schwinget is so important to him is, “My earliest memories of wrestling come from here.”

Who’s stopping him?

If Fabian Staudenmann continues to swing like this, the question inevitably arises who wants to stop this man. “Someone recently told me that it all comes naturally to me,” says the brand new winner of the Bergkranzfest. ‘But that’s not true at all. I always have to be on my guard, as a hunted person anyway, otherwise I suddenly lie on my back very quickly.”

But for now it remains a mystery who will succeed in this colossal feat.

Source : Blick