Gerold Boch
Gerold Boch (* 1950 ) is a German fencer. He first started fencing at OFC Castrop-Rauxel and later started for OFC Bonn and VfL Sankt Augustin . Today he works as a trainer in Sankt Augustin .
Career
Boch began fencing with the foil , and in 1967 the saber was added. In the same year he fought his first German championship, was appointed to the national team in 1969 and took part in the Junior World Championships in Minsk a year later . In 1971 he won the German Junior Championship in a saber, together with the later Olympic champion and IOC President Thomas Bach , who won the title in foil. Boch took part in the world championships in 1977 in Buenos Aires , 1978 in Hamburg and 1981 in Clermont-Ferrand and was nominated for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , in which he did not take part because of the boycott of the West German team.
Due to a concussion he suffered as a judge at an international tournament, he missed qualifying for the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and then ended his career. Boch started a total of 217 times for the German national team and was German team champion twelve times and third in the individual in 1981 .
He has been active as a senior fencer since 2002, was vice European champion with the foil in 2007 and German team champion with the saber in 2014, together with Walter Convents , Jörg Kempenich and Jürgen Nolte .
literature
- Karl Lennartz : Gold medal, world records and district champion - The history of sport in Sankt Augustin . In: Contributions to the history of the city . tape 51 . Sankt Augustin 2012, p. 73-74 .
Web links
- Memories of a competitive athlete and coach. Interview on the website of VfL Sankt Augustin.
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Junior. German Fencing Association , accessed on June 18, 2019 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Boch, Gerold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German fencer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |