Brian Jacks

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Brian Jacks (left) against Adri van Polanen from the Netherlands . (1967)

Brian Albert Thomas Jacks (born October 5, 1946 in London ) is a former British judoka who won an Olympic bronze medal in the middleweight division in 1972.

The 1.78 m tall Brian Jacks was 1964 Junior European Champion and third in the lightweight at the European Championships in the adult class. At the Olympic premiere of judo in Tokyo in 1964 , he retired in the preliminary group of the eventual Olympic champion Takehide Nakatani from Japan with one victory and one defeat. In 1965 Brian Jacks won silver at the European Championships behind Wladimir Kuspisch from the Soviet Union and, as in the previous year, was Junior European Champion.

In 1967 Jacks, now starting in the middleweight division, won a bronze medal at both the European Championships and the World Championships . At the 1969 World Championships he was defeated by the Japanese Katsuya Hirao and finished in seventh place. In 1970 Brian Jacks was European champion ahead of the Dutchman Martin Poglajen . In 1971 Jacks won a bronze medal at the European Championships and finished fifth at the World Championships .

At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , Jacks won pool A and the South Korean Oh Seung-lip won pool B, while French Jean-Paul Coche and Japanese Shinobu Sekine reached the semi-finals via the hope round. In the semifinals, the Japanese won against the British by referee decision (yusei-gachi) and Jacks received a bronze medal. A year later Jacks lost in the pool final of the European Championships against French Guy Auffray , after victories over the German Fred Marhenke in the hope round and Guram Gogolauri from the Soviet Union in the semifinals, Jacks met Guy Affray again in the final and won the gold medal. In 1974 Jacks won bronze at the student world championships, in 1975 he reached the final at the pre-Olympic tournament in Montreal and lost to Marhenke. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal Jacks retired after two wins with a defeat against the Yugoslav Slavko Obadov and finished eleventh.

literature

  • Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .
  • Volker Kluge: Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Jacks, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacks, Brian Albert Thomas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British judoka
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH London