Dieter Hecke

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Dieter Hecke (born February 13, 1935 in Aachen ) is a German sword fencer and participant in the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo . He fights at OFC Bonn , since 2015 at Pulheimer SC.

successes

Hecke started fencing in 1951 at the age of 15. In 1962 and 1963 he won a bronze medal at the German individual championships in epee fencing. The team of OFC Bonn won several German team championships in men's epee in the 1960s. The exact team line-ups are not known. At the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, he took part in the men's epee singles. He was eliminated in the round of the last sixteen fencers after a defeat against the Poles Bohdan Gonsior and finished tied for ninth place.

Hecke was also successful as a senior and won several German senior championships, the 2001 Senior World Championship in Martinique and the European Senior Championship in Chiavari in 2017 in the over 75-year-old class.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim Nolden: Sports comrade: He was already at the Olympics in Tokyo. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, November 11, 2010, accessed on July 19, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Tables in: Deutscher Fechter-Bund (Ed.), Andreas Schirmer (Red): En Garde! Allez! Touchez! 100 Years of Fencing in Germany - A Success Story , Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 2012. Page 218ff.
  3. ^ Dieter Hecke in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ), accessed on September 6, 2018.
  4. ↑ Biography - Dieter Hecke. German Fencing Association, accessed on July 19, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hecke, Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hecke, Dietrich Eberhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fencer
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen