Genrikh Shults
1929–1999 (age 70)
Biography
Genrikh Karlovich Shults (Russian: Генрих Карлович Шульц; Schultz — correct transcription; there are most publications with spelling Shults or Shultz (March 23, 1929 – 1999)) was a Russian judoka and Sambo practitioner who competed for the Soviet Union.
Genrikh Shults was 6-times Champion of the Soviet Union in Sambo (1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961).
Shults was also a capitan of the first Soviet National Judo team.
In 1962 he won the bronze medal in European Judo Team Championships (Essen) in class O80, and in 1963 he won the gold medal in the European Judo Team Championships (Geneva) in U80 class.
In 1956 Shults found a Sambo club in Moscow High Technical School.
Genrikh Shults among with Oleg Stepanov (U68), Vladimir Pankratov (U80) and Durmishkhan Beruashvili (O80) took part in the pre-Olympics Soviet-Japanese Judo tournament in Japan (1963).