Güney Artak

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Güney Artak boxer
Data
Birth Name Güney Artak
Weight class Heavyweight
nationality German
birthday November 24, 1988
place of birth Langenhagen
size 1.83 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles more than 100

Güney Artak , fighting name Zaza , nickname Schlachter (born November 24, 1988 in Langenhagen ) is a German kickboxer . In 2017 he received the title of world heavyweight champion of the World Boxing Union (WBU).

Life

Güney Artak, born in Langenhagen in 1988, moved with his family to the town of Göxe am Deister in the Hanover region at the age of 2, but soon after moved to Kirchdorf , where, after attending kindergarten, Astrid Lindgren primary school and the Lisa Tetzner school in Barsinghausen finally Jump the local BBS attended.

For his training as a specialist for safety and security in Hanover Artak left at age 18 his family and worked in the plant security of larger companies.

As a teenager, Güney Artak played first as a footballer in the G to B youth at TSV Kirchdorf and Basche United . In the judo division , he first discovered martial arts for himself, later kung fu , classic boxing as well as kickboxing and sanda .

In addition to his sporting activities, Artak volunteered in the integration council and in the youth parliament of Barsinghausen.

In 2016 Güney Artak received the license as a soccer referee , with which he works for the SC Elite Hannover or at the district level , especially at TSV Kirchdorf. According to his own statement, Artak, sometimes described as "fearful", "[...] likes to lead problem games with players with a migrant background who are at high risk of dropping out ."

On December 2, 2017, Artak, who then weighed 105 kilograms and was 1.83 meters tall, at the time German kickboxing champion and reigning European champion, won the title of heavyweight world champion in kickboxing at the WBU in the Pied Piper Hall in Hameln .

On October 5, 2018, Artak was one of the fighters in the fitness competition entitled Showdown - the desert challenge , which was broadcast on the TV channel RTL and in April of that year in the desert landscape of the Sierra Nevada near the Spanish city of Almería was recorded.

As a part-time job, Artak took on the task of lecturing specialists in the security area, as well as the responsibility as a fitness and martial arts trainer. The competitive athlete trains at the Power House GYM and is under contract with the World Boxing Union (WBU) and manages his sole proprietorship.

At the end of 2018, Güney Artak, who is a professional personal coach for fitness and martial arts, describes himself as a “ Kurd from Turkey ” and only has a German passport, lived in the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover in the Döhren district .

Web links

Personal website of Güney Artak

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Erk Bratke: Revenge! A barsing house is fighting for the world championship title in kickboxing , article on deister-journal.de from November 28, 2017, last accessed on October 8, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Rainer Hennies: He sends his opponents into the desert , in the daily newspaper Neue Presse on October 5, 2018, p. 24
personal data
SURNAME Artak, Güney
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German heavyweight world champion in kickboxing
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenhagen