German Taekwondo Union

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German Taekwondo Union
Founded 1981
president Stefan Klawiter
societies 852
Members 55,792
Association headquarters Munich
Homepage www.dtu.de

The German Taekwondo Union e. V. (DTU) is the largest Taekwondo association in Germany. She is a member of the German Olympic Sports Confederation .

history

The association was founded in 1981 and is the legal successor to the Taekwondo section of the German Judo Association (DJB). The legal form is the registered association (e.V.) . The association, based in Munich, is a member of the European umbrella organization World Taekwondo Europe (WTE) and the Olympic umbrella organization World Taekwondo (WT).

On the part of the German Olympic Sports Confederation , the DTU is the only Taekwondo association authorized to send athletes to the Olympic Games .

The German Taekwondo Union or its predecessor has already hosted the world championships twice, in Sindelfingen in 1979 and in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2003 . After 1978 in Munich and 1984 in Stuttgart , the European Championships were held again in Germany ( Bonn ) in 2006 .

Successful athletes on a world level

German fighters have achieved numerous successes on a world level over the years, including the following:

World Champion

The first Turkish Taekwondo World Champion Yilmaz Helvacioglu (–68 kg), who won the title in Copenhagen in 1983 , started Taekwondo in Germany. Servet Tazegül also fought for Turkey in Beijing and World Champion 2011 in Gyeongju , who was born in Nuremberg and lives and trains there. Tazegül became the first Turkish Olympic champion at the 2012 Olympic Games in London .

CISM world champion

Vice world champion

European champion

U21 European Champion

  • Madeline Folgmann (–53 kg), 2017 in Sofia

U21 Vice European Champion

  • Ela Aydin (–53 kg), 2017 in Sofia
  • Sümeyye Manz (née Gülec) (-49 kg), 2010 in Kharkov , Ukraine

Olympic games

At the first Olympic demonstration competitions in Taekwondo in 1988 in Seoul (Korea), two athletes from the DTU each won a bronze medal: the 1988 European champion and later DTU national coach Markus Woznicki (NWTU), the 1987 world champion Michael Arndt (NWTU ), the later European champion from 1992 Sonny Jung (née Seidel) (HTU) and Ute Güster from Düren in the heavyweight division. Reinhard Langer from the BTU took 4th place.

At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 Faissal Ebnoutalib won an Olympic silver medal for Germany for the first time in the men's –80 kg weight category. Aziz Acharki took 5th place in featherweight (-68 kg) after good preliminary fights and was only barely defeated by Steven Lopez , the later double Olympic champion (2000 and 2004) and now five-time world champion from the USA.

At the 2004 Summer Games in Athens, the German Taekwondo team, including two-time world champion Erdal Aylanc from North Rhine-Westphalia , narrowly missed qualification.

The three-time European champion Levent Tuncat already qualified in 2007 at the world qualification tournament in Manchester for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in the weight class up to 58 kg. The two athletes Pınar Budak (NWTU) and Sümeyye Gülec each won a bronze medal in January 2008 in Istanbul. Together with Daniel Manz, four German TKD athletes were represented in Beijing. At the suggestion of the DTU, on July 15, 2008, the German Olympic Sports Confederation announced that Helena Fromm would take part in the Olympic Games. Daniel Manz achieved fifth place in his weight class, the other fighters were eliminated in the preliminary fights.

Regional associations

Today over 55,000 active people train in the DTU, with around 12,800 athletes in 209 clubs in the largest state association of the North Rhine-Westphalian Taekwondo Union (NWTU). The following 17 regional associations are members of the DTU:

Regional association abbreviation state
Berlin Taekwondo Association BTV Berlin
Bavarian Taekwondo Union BTU Bavaria
Hamburg Taekwondo Union TUH Hamburg
Hessian Taekwondo Union HTU Hesse
North Rhine-Westphalian Taekwondo Union NWTU North Rhine-Westphalia
Lower Saxony Taekwondo Union NTU Lower Saxony
Taekwondo State Association Bremen TLVB Bremen
Taekwondo Union Thuringia DOES Thuringia
Taekwondo Union Saar TUSaar Saarland
Taekwondo Union Saxony-Anhalt TUSA Saxony-Anhalt
Taekwondo Union Saxony TUS Saxony
Taekwondo Union Southwest TUSW
Taekwondo Union Rhineland-Palatinate TURP Rhineland-Palatinate
Taekwondo Union Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania TUMV Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Taekwondo Union Baden-Württemberg TUBW Baden-Württemberg
Taekwondo Association Schleswig-Holstein TVSH Schleswig-Holstein
Taekwondo Association of the States Berlin / Brandenburg TVBB Berlin, Brandenburg

Taekwondo Bundesliga

From 2003 to 2005 a Bundesliga was held in Olympic competition mode, in which the German team champion was determined. The aim was to bring the full contact free fight (Olympic discipline) closer to a broader audience at a regional level in a way that was effective for the public. Since too few clubs registered in the third and fourth year for organizational and financial reasons, no more league fights were held from the 2005/2006 season, although the Taekwondo Bundesliga project was never officially discontinued.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Inventory survey 2019. (PDF) German Olympic Sports Confederation, accessed on June 14, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Articles of Association (PDF; 77 kB), accessed on May 21, 2012.
  3. ↑ Sonny's "Sport Page", TKD and me. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 23, 2014 ; Retrieved August 9, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Placement of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney ( Memento from September 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ DTU sports director: German Taekwondo League (DTL), league regulations. (PDF; 55 kB) German Taekwondo Union, October 3, 2004, accessed on June 23, 2011 .
  6. ^ Benjamin Witte: From May Bundesliga. SÜDKURIER GmbH, February 6, 2003, accessed on June 23, 2011 .
  7. ↑ David Mayer: Not that easy, but: Nievenheim is in the Bundesliga. NGZ-Online - Neuss Grevenbroicher Zeitung, September 7, 2004, accessed on June 23, 2011 .
  8. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Report on the DTU full board meeting in December 2006 )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.referee4tkd.de