Fritz Sdunek

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Fritz Sdunek in 2009 at a press conference

Fritz Sdunek (born April 18, 1947 in Lüssow ; † December 22, 2014 in Hamburg ) was a German amateur boxer and boxing trainer.

amateur

Sdunek started boxing at BSG Lokomotive Greifswald in 1963 , in 1969 he switched to SC Traktor Schwerin , for whom he boxed until the end of his career in 1972. As a boxer, he won 99 of 129 fights, his greatest success being winning the GDR student championship .

Coaching career

Immediately after his active career, he became a coach at SC Traktor Schwerin and remained loyal to the club until 1989; he trained there, among others, Andreas Zülow , who was Olympic champion in 1988 in Seoul in the lightweight. Sdunek completed his studies at the German University of Physical Culture in 1979 with a degree as a qualified sports teacher. He also worked for several years as the assistant to GDR selection coach Günter Debert . In 1988 he received the Order of Labor (Level I) in the GDR for his achievements as a trainer .

From 1990 to 1993 Sdunek was a trainer in the boxing department of TSV Bayer Leverkusen , where he was already in charge of Dariusz Michalczewski , with whom he became European amateur champion in Gothenburg in 1991 . Parallel to his coaching activity in Leverkusen , he was the coach of the Dutch national team from 1991 to 1992. Under his leadership, Arnold Vanderlyde won the silver medal in the heavyweight division at the 1991 Amateur World Championships in Sydney . From 1993 to 1994 he was also the national coach at DABV .

Since 1994 Sdunek has been employed as a trainer at Universum Box-Promotion , first as a conditioning trainer and from 1996 as head trainer. In this role he joined the most successful German boxing trainers of the time. In 2009 Sdunek withdrew for health reasons on the advice of his doctors as a result of cancer and heart problems from his coaching activity; the boxers he had looked after until then were largely taken over by his colleagues Michael Timm , Magomed Schaburow and Artur Grigorian .

In 2010 Sdunek finally ended his coaching activity at Universum Box-Promotion - according to the boxing stable because of an upcoming hip operation. He continued to train heavyweight world champion Vitali Klitschko and ex-WBA middleweight world champion Felix Sturm . Since 2013 Sdunek has also coached the aspiring middleweight Jack Culcay . In the fall of 2014, he trained Ruslan Chagayev .

Private and death

Sdunek was married and had three children. In autumn 2009 Sdunek was made an honorary citizen of his native Lüssow, which has belonged to Gützkow since 2010. On December 22nd, 2014, he died in a Hamburg clinic as a result of a heart attack that he had suffered on Gran Canaria on the third weekend in Advent . After the operation on December 15, 2014, Sdunek's health had improved so much that he was due to be discharged on December 22 when ventricular fibrillation recurred. Despite two hour attempts at resuscitation, Sdunek died of the arrhythmia. He was buried at a large funeral service at which around 500 mourners were present at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg. At his grave is a stele with two boxing gloves. In September 2019 , the professional boxing event named after Sdunek took place in Zinnowitz for the first time, "Fritz Sdunek Memorial".

Stele by Fritz Sdunek

List of boxers trained by Sdunek

The boxers trained by Sdunek included:

In January 2009, Károly Balzsay became the eleventh world champion who was trained by Sdunek.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tobias Lempe, Markus Krücken: Boxing: Trainer legend Fritz Sdunek is dead . Hamburger Morgenpost, December 22, 2014; accessed on December 22, 2014
  2. ^ "Results without national leagues", Sport-Bild dated December 29, 1992, p. 37
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
  4. ↑ Julian König: Klitschko coach takes over: Fritz Sdunek is the new coach of Jack Culcay . Hamburger Morgenpost, April 10, 2013.
  5. ^ [1] RP Online, death of boxing trainer Sdunek
  6. ↑ Municipality appoints trainer legend Sdunek as an honorary citizen.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ostsee-zeitung.de   Ostseezeitung.de from March 15, 2010, accessed December 27, 2012 (no longer available online.)
  7. ^ Obituary by Björn Jensen: Fritz Sdunek's death at 67 shook the boxing world. A great trainer and an even bigger person. In: Box Sport No. 2/2015, pp. 16-18.
  8. ^ Moving funeral service for Fritz Sdunek . ( Memento from January 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) ndr.de, January 2015; accessed on December 30, 2015.
  9. ↑ Hamburg's personalities rest here . ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. hamburger-allgemeine.de, 2015; accessed on December 30, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburger-allgemeine.de
  10. ↑ FOCUS Online: Exciting fights at "Fritz Sdunek Memorial". Retrieved October 17, 2019 .
  11. ^ Hungarian Balzsay dethrones world champion Inkin . ( Memento from March 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) sport.rtl.de, January 2009; accessed on December 23, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Sdunek, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German amateur boxer and boxing trainer
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Lüssow
DATE OF DEATH 22nd December 2014
Place of death Hamburg