Georg F. Brückner

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Georg Frederic Brückner (* July 30, 1930 - December 30, 1992 ) was a German kickboxing pioneer and developer of martial arts equipment. Georg F. Brückner died at age 62 of cancer .

Athletic career

In the 1950s he began with the martial arts judo , jiu jitsu , karate and taekwondo . In 1961 he opened his own martial arts school in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . Shortly afterwards, he met the American Mike Anderson and through him the American form of sport karate, today's kickboxing . Brückner started the development of sport karate and kickboxing in Europe, which makes him the "father of European kickboxing".

In 1977 he founded the WAKO (World Allstyle Karate Organization, today World Association of Kickboxing Organizations ), one of the largest associations for amateur kickboxing, with other martial arts greats . In the 1970s and 1980s he organized many events, including a. two world championships of the WAKO, the first professional full-contact world championship of the PKA and other national and international tournaments.

Entrepreneurial achievements

Later he also excelled as an entrepreneur. Brückner was not satisfied with the quality of the imported protective equipment for kickboxers. He invested almost 3 million D-Marks until his TOP-TEN equipment was ready for series production.

At the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 , in Atlanta in 1996 and in Sydney in 2000 , he was the official supplier of the boxing tournament with head protection and boxing gloves. This was preceded by studies by the world association for amateur boxing, AIBA , which was under pressure from the IOC and the medical commissions and which saw the use of Brückner's headguards and gloves as one of the few opportunities to make boxing safe and thus keep it in the Olympic program. Brückner's equipment made a significant contribution to this, as the AIBA statistics show. The daily Berliner Morgenpost described Brückner as the “inventor of soft boxing gloves”.

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SURNAME Brückner, Georg F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brückner, Georg Frederic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German martial artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1930
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1992