Torsten May

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Torsten May boxer
Torsten May
Data
Birth Name Torsten May
Weight class Cruiser weight
nationality German
birthday September 10, 1969
place of birth Glauchau
style Legal display
size 1.93 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles 25th
Victories 22nd
Knockout victories 12
Defeats 3
Profile in the BoxRec database

Torsten May (born September 10, 1969 in Glauchau ) is a former German boxer and today's boxing trainer.

His greatest success was the Olympic victory at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona .

amateur

South African Torsten May went through the GDR boxing school . From 1976 he boxed at BSG Jahn Bad Freienwalde, and from 1983 May attended the children's and youth sports school in Frankfurt / Oder . As an amateur, he played 155 fights, of which he won 120. He lost to Sven Ottke several times. Under his coach Ulli Wegner , he became German light heavyweight champion (-81 kg) in 1991 and military world champion in the same year. At the 1991 World Championships , after victories over Patrice Aoussi, France (25:21), Orestes Solano, Cuba (27:10), Mehmet Gürgen , Turkey (31: 7) and Andrei Kurnjawka , Soviet Union (27:14), he won the World title.

In 1992 he won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​defeating Gil Nam Kim, North Korea (9: 1), Robert Dale Brown, Canada (7: 1), Montell Griffin , USA (6: 4), Wojciech Bartnik , Poland (8: 6), and Rostislaw Saulitschni , Ukraine (8: 3).

For winning the gold medal, he received the silver bay leaf on June 23, 1993.

At the World Championships in 1993 May retired in the first fight against Wojciech Bartnik (5: 4).

professional

In 1993 May switched to the professional camp and the Sauerland boxing stable , where he made his debut under coach Manfred Wolke . He has already been seen by the press as the successor to Henry Mask , as both careers were similar. May, who never liked that, shouldn't have had the successes either. In May 1994 he became German cruiserweight champion in Koblenz by defeating Ralf Rocchigiani . At the end of August 1996 May, who had changed from Cloud to coach Darkie Smith a few months earlier, lost the IBF World Championship title fight on points against Adolpho Washington for the first time in his professional career in front of 7,000 spectators in the bullring of Palma de Mallorca and for a long time could not get rid of this defeat.

In the following year he gave up in a fight against Stefan Angehrn , which he had dominated until then, in order not to worsen a facial injury. Although this earned him the respect of his fans and the press, who saw him as the "intelligent boxer", the defeat from the previous year still had an effect here.

In 1999 May was able to break away from his World Cup defeat when he won the IBF Intercontinental title against his former opponent Adolpho Washington . In the same year he was also European cruiserweight champion. In 2001 another successful European Championship fight against the Ukrainian Alexander Gurow could have given him another World Cup chance. Instead, however, he was defeated by a technical knockout and then resigned.

From 2001 Torsten May was a trainer in Wilfried Sauerland's boxing stable in Cologne and looked after his brother Rüdiger May , among others . He was also Ulli Wegner's assistant coach for four years . In 2006 May, who completed a distance learning course as a fitness specialist, opened a boxing club in Cologne with his brother Rüdiger and father Uli. He is an ambassador for the “Germany is moving!” Campaign and has also been a motivational speaker since 2007.

Torsten May is married and has two children.

successes

as an amateur
  • Record: 120 wins - 35 defeats
  • 1987: GDR junior champion and Spartakia winner
  • 1991: German light heavyweight champion
  • 1991: World light heavyweight champion
  • 1992: Olympic light heavyweight champion
as a professional

Record: 22 wins - 3 defeats

  • May 7, 1994: German cruiserweight champion
  • June 5, 1999: IBF Intercontinental Cruiserweight Champion (1 title defense)
  • November 27, 1999: EBU European Cruiserweight Champion

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Torsten May Motivation - Vita. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport ... On June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded ... handicapped and non-handicapped athletes, namely the medal winners of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 1992, with silver Bay leaf from ....
  3. ↑ BoxRec: Torsten May. Accessed October 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Stefan Reckziegel: Blue-eyed tactics. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. September 2, 1996. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ "I was always afraid" , Interview with May on Spiegel Online from December 29, 1997
  6. ↑ Maylife Boxclub> Torsten May. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
  7. ^ City of Düren: "Germany is moving and Düren is participating!" Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME May, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxer, Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Glauchau