Andreas Tews

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Andreas Tews (left) wins the 1990 TSC boxing tournament against Cuban Enrique Carrión

Andreas Tews (born September 11, 1968 in Rostock ) is a former German amateur boxer.

Tews started boxing in 1979 at the age of 10 at the FiKo Rostock club . He later switched to SC Traktor Schwerin . In 1985, 1987 and 1989 he was GDR champion, in 1991 and 1992 German champion.

His first international success was second place in the flyweight class at the European Junior Championships in Copenhagen in 1986 . Just a year later he was able to win the senior European title in Turin and third at the 1991 European Championship in Gothenburg .

Still competing for the GDR , he won the silver medal in the flyweight division at the 1988 Olympic Games after losing to Kim Kwang-sun in the final . In 1992 he became Olympic featherweight champion for Germany at the Olympic Games in Barcelona.

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

As early as 1993, at the age of 24, he ended his boxing career at Schweriner SC . He had turned down an offer for a professional contract with Universum Box-Promotion . He is married and has a daughter (* 1994) and a son (* 2005).

For winning the silver medal in Seoul in 1988 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boxing - GDR - Amateurs Championships ( light flyweight) on Sport-komplett.de
  2. ↑ Boxing - GDR - Amateurs Championships (flyweight) on Sport-komplett.de
  3. ↑ Boxing - GDR - Amateurs Championships (bantamweight) on Sport-komplett.de
  4. ↑ Boxing - Amateurs (German Championships) on Sport-komplett.de
  5. ↑ 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 the silver medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games to disabled and non-disabled athletes in a joint event Bay leaf from ... "
  6. ↑ Honor for the Olympic team of the GDR - High state awards awarded. In: New Germany . Newspaper archive of the Berlin State Library, November 12, 1988, p. 4 , accessed on February 15, 2014 (free access after registration).

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SURNAME Tews, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxer
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock