Dietmar Geilich
Dietmar Geilich (born June 15, 1954 in Görlitz ) is a former German boxer . Geilich was silver medalist at the European Championships in 1979 and 1981 and bronze medalist at the World Boxing Championships in 1982 and the Friendship Competitions .
Career
Geilich learned boxing at Motor Görlitz, and later he started for ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt / Oder. He was eight times champion of the GDR in light flyweight (-48 kg) in 1973, 1975–1977, 1979–1981 and 1983.
Geilich's first international tournament win came in 1974 at the renowned TSC tournament in Berlin . In the final, he beat the winner of the Central American and Caribbean Championships in 1974, Luis Enrique Ramos from Cuba . At the European Championships in the following year, however, Geilich was eliminated in the quarter-finals against the Romanian Remus Cosma. In 1976 he won the Chemistry Cup in Halle before starting the Olympic Games for the first time . In Montreal , however, he was eliminated in the first fight against Armando Guevara ( Venezuela ) (0: 5).
Geilich had a similar experience at the European Championships in 1977 when he was eliminated in the preliminary round against Vaclav Hornak ( Czechoslovakia ) (2: 3). In 1979 Geilich won a medal for the first time at an international championship. At the European Championships in Cologne he reached the final, which he lost to Shamil Sabirow ( Soviet Union ) (1: 4). With this success in his back, Gailich started at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow . He won against Birender Singh Thapa ( India ) (3: 2) and Pedro Manuel Nieves (Venezuela) (5: 0) before he again failed in the quarterfinals at the eventual Olympic champion Sabirow.
At the European Championships in 1981 Geilich won a second silver medal. In the final, he was defeated by the bronze medalist of the 1980 Olympic Games and Sabirov conqueror Ismail Mustafow ( Bulgaria ) (0: 5). In 1982 Geilich started for the first and only time at the World Championships and reached the semi-finals in Munich , which he lost to the North Korean Go Jong Fan (1: 4). In the friendship competitions, which took place as a replacement for the boycotted Olympic Games in 1984 , Geilich again won a bronze medal. He lost in the semifinals to the later gold medalist Juan Torres ( Cuba ) (0: 5).
Geilich later worked as a youth coach in Frankfurt / Oder.
Awards
- 1984 - Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
swell
- amateur-boxing.strefa.pl
- sports-reference.com
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany , 1./2. September 1984, p. 4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Great, Dietmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goerlitz |