Eberhard Mehl

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Eberhard Mehl (born April 20, 1935 in Cologne , † March 29, 2002 in Koblenz ) was a German fencer who won an Olympic bronze medal with the foil .

Mehl began fencing at OFC Bonn in 1949 , and in 1956 Mehl won the German team championship with the Bonn team. He then moved to REI Koblenz . At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 Mehl reached the round of 12 in the individual competition. Together with Jürgen Brecht , Tim Gerresheim and Jürgen Theuerkauff , Mehl won the bronze medal in the team competition against the Hungarians, with Mehl having two wins and one defeat in the battle for bronze .

For this he was rewarded with the silver bay leaf on December 9, 1960.

Four years later at the Olympic Games in 1964 , Mehl finished fifth with the German team. In 1966 Mehl ended his active career.

After studying in Cologne, Mehl worked as a teacher for art and sports at the Max-von-Laue-Gymnasium in Koblenz from 1961 . Until 1982 he was also a fencing trainer at Königsbacher SC Koblenz , after leaving the club after a dispute, he built up a fencing department at the Coblenzer Turngesellschaft . His most successful students were Dennis Bauer and Wiradech Kothny , who Mehl looked after until the 2000 Olympic Games .

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  1. ↑ 30 years OFC Bonn ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rhfb.de
  2. ^ Information given to the Bundestag by the Federal Government on September 29, 1973 - Printed matter 7/1040 - Annex 3, pages 54 ff., Here page 58
personal data
SURNAME Flour, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fencer
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2002
Place of death Koblenz