Reto Bucher

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Reto Bucher
Personal information
Full name Reto Bucher
Nationality   Switzerland
Born (1982-09-30) 30 September 1982 (age 41)
Mühlau, Aargau, Switzerland
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Weight 74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Sport Wrestling
Style Greco-Roman
Club Ringerstaffel Freiamt
Coach Leonz Küng (1997–2003)
Andrey Maltsev (2003–2009)
Medal record
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Representing   Switzerland
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2007 Varna 74 kg

Reto Bucher (born September 30, 1982 in Mühlau, Aargau) is a retired amateur Swiss Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's middleweight category.[1] He finished fourth in the 74-kg division at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and later took home a silver medal at the 2007 European Championships in Varna, Bulgaria. Before his wrestling career ended in 2009, Bucher trained as a member of the wrestling team for Ringerstaffel Freiamt in Aristau, under his personal coach Leonz Küng.[2][3]

A member of the Swiss wrestling squad, Bucher entered the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens as an underdog in the men's 74 kg class, after placing third and receiving a berth from the final Olympic Qualification Tournament in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[4] He opened his match by dominating Belarusian wrestler Aliaksandr Kikiniou with a 3–2 verdict, and then rallied for a 6–2 score over China's Sai Yinjiya in the prelim pool to move into the next round.[5] Bucher edged past his Kazakh rival Danil Khalimov in the quarterfinals, before being tamed by eventual silver medalist Marko Yli-Hannuksela of Finland at 3–0, leaving him with an ankle injury.[6] Fighting against Russia's Varteres Samurgashev for the bronze medal, Bucher could not endure a pain from his injury and easily lost the match to the Russian due to a 10–0 superiority limit.[7][8]

Bucher lost again to Hannuksela for the bronze medal in the same division at the 2005 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Hungary, until his medal drought culminated with a silver at the European Championships in 2007.[9][10] He also sought to compete for his second Swiss team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but missed out a spot from the Olympic trials.[11] In 2009, Bucher announced his official retirement from the sport because of a right knee injury sustained from the Swiss championships.[3]

References

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