Alexander Push

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Alexander Pusch medal table

fencing

GermanyGermany Germany
Olympic games
gold 1976 Montreal Sword
silver 1976 Montreal Epee team
gold 1984 Los Angeles Epee team
silver 1988 Seoul Epee team
Fencing World Championships
silver 1974 Grenoble Epee team
gold 1975 Budapest Sword
silver 1975 Budapest Epee team
gold 1978 Hamburg Sword
silver 1979 Melbourne Epee team
silver 1983 Vienna Epee team
gold 1985 Barcelona Epee team
gold 1986 Sofia Epee team
silver 1987 Lausanne Epee team
German fencing championships
gold 1973 Sword
gold 1975 Sword
gold 1978 Sword
gold 1979 Sword
gold 1980 Sword
gold 1982 Sword
gold 1986 Sword
gold 1988 Sword

Alexander Pusch (born May 15, 1955 in Tauberbischofsheim ) is a former German sword fencer .

Life

Fencing career

Pusch, who learned the profession of draftsman, has been world and Olympic champion in epee fencing several times . In 1975 Pusch won the Frankenland tournament , a men's epee world cup for juniors. In 1976 he won the individual Olympic Games in Montreal and took silver with the team. At the 1984 Games in Los Angeles he was again team Olympic champion and in 1988 at the Olympics in Seoul he won silver with the German team. The multiple world and European champion and world cup winner, who fought for the Tauberbischofsheim fencing club , was the youngest epee fencer world champion at the age of 19 (1975). To date there has been no younger champion.

Honored as Germany's "Fencer of the Century"

In 2001 Pusch was honored as Germany's "Fencer of the Century". For decades Pusch was one of the world's best epee fencers. Four Olympic medals, two world championships in singles, two with the team, five times vice world champion with the team, European champion in singles, seven times gold in the European Cup and many other titles are testament to his technical brilliance.

Career as a coach

After training as a trainer at the sports university in Cologne , Pusch ended his successful career as an athlete in 1989 and started as a fencing trainer at the national performance center in his home town of Tauberbischofsheim . Here he was the first to discover the talent of Anja Fichtel a few years earlier , whom he promoted and accompanied as a trainer until she won the gold medal in foil fencing at the Olympic Games in Seoul. Like his golf friend Franz Beckenbauer in football, Alexander Pusch also succeeded in fencing the feat of becoming world champion, both as an active player and as a trainer. In 1994, Alexander Pusch was appointed national trainer of the epee fencers. After several arguments with his "foster father" and head national trainer Emil Beck , Pusch's career as national coach ended in 2000 after the Olympic Games in Sydney, where the German national degreing team just missed a medal and won the fourth place had to be satisfied. Beck blamed Pusch for the failure. From 2000 to the end of 2012, the winner of the silver laurel leaf worked as a regional trainer at the Olympic base in Tauberbischofsheim . Pusch is also considered the "inventor" of the so-called bingo .

Entrepreneurship and social engagement

Pusch now works successfully as an entrepreneur in the field of sports and event marketing and no longer spends his free time in the fencing hall, but on the golf course. The passionate golfer has a handicap of 5.8. As a member of the Eagles Charity golf club, Alexander Pusch and other prominent members take part in charity tournaments to collect donations for social foundations and people who are innocently in need.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Birthdays", Sport-Bild from May 12, 1993, p. 56
  2. a b c Fechtclub Tauberbischofsheim e. V .: Fechtclub Tauberbischofsheim: History ( Memento from May 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Online at www.fechtentbb.de. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  3. a b c SWR: Alexander Pusch: Germany's fencer of the century . Online at www.swr.de. Retrieved May 2, 2015
  4. ^ "The great Olympia Lexicon", Sport-Bild from June 19, 1996, p. 45
  5. message 24 05 2016. In: www.hall-of-fame-sport.de. Retrieved July 17, 2016 .