Elmar Borrmann

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Elmar Borrmann (born January 18, 1957 in Stuttgart ) is a former German fencer who won two Olympic gold medals and one silver medal with his sword . In fencing world championships Elmar Borrmann achieved three gold, six silver and three bronze medals.

Life

Elmar Borrmann started for the Tauberbischofsheim fencing club and attended the Tauberbischofsheim commercial school . In 1977 Borrmann was the first German individual champion. In 1981 and 1984 he was able to repeat this title win. At the 1979 World Cup , he won silver with the team. After being due to the Olympic boycott in 1980 not to the Olympic Games could participate in Moscow, he won in the World Cup 1981 in Clermont-Ferrand bronze in the individual standings. Two years later at the 1983 World Cup in Vienna, he won gold in the individual standings and silver with the team. It was to be his last individual medal at world championships.

At the Olympic Games in 1984 he won gold with the team and was sixth in the individual competition. After he was not part of the national team in 1985, Elmar Borrmann became team world champion at the 1986 World Cup together with Alexander Pusch , Volker Fischer and Arnd Schmitt . At the 1987 World Cup , the 1988 Olympic Games and the 1989 World Cup , he won silver with the team. This was followed by fourth place in 1990 and bronze at the 1991 World Cup . He won his second Olympic gold medal in Barcelona in 1992 . For this he received the silver bay leaf on June 23, 1993 .

Bronze followed at the 1993 World Cup , silver in 1994 and in 1995 he won his second world championship title in the team together with Arnd Schmitt, Mariusz Strzałka and Michael Flegler . At his fourth Olympic participation in Atlanta in 1996 , he was fourth with the team. At the age of forty he won silver again at the 1997 World Championships together with Schmitt and Flegler.

Others

His twin brother Igor Borrmann was also an epee fencer. Igor was nominated for the 1980 Olympic Games and the Olympic boycott of the Federal Republic of Germany cost him his participation. Igor Borrmann narrowly missed the qualification for the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, as the first to replace the German sword squad, he did not get a chance.

In the senior category, Igor Borrmann is the more successful of the two brothers and has already celebrated European championships in the over 40s category. Igor fights for TSF Ditzingen . Two of his three children, Constanze (* 1997) and Carmen * (1994) also fight for FC Tauberbischofsheim. Both are very successful and talented fencers and have already won several titles. His third child, Philipp (* 2000), is not a fencer, he plays table tennis for TTC Bietigheim.

Awards

literature

  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Barcelona 92. The German Olympic team , Frankfurt 1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 75 years of the Tauberbischofsheim Commercial School , StieberDruck GmbH, 113 pages, TBB 1997, p. 49.
  2. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V .: VIBSS: The Federal President and his tasks in the field of sport ... On June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker awarded ... disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with the silver laurel leaf out ...
  3. ↑ Article from October 2011. In: vkz.de. Retrieved August 23, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Borrmann, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fencer
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart