Helmut Anschütz

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Helmut Anschütz (born July 13, 1932 in Dresden ; † October 8, 2016 ) was a German sword fencer . As a member of the men's epee team, he took part in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome . He fought at the Aachen fencing club.

successes

At the 1960 Summer Olympics, Anschütz shared fifth place with Paul Gnaier , Fritz Zimmermann , Dieter Fänger , Georg Neuber and Walter Köstner after losing to the Soviet Union in the quarter-finals. In 1961 he was sixth at the Student World Championships in Sofia .

His brother Klaus Anschütz was also an active fencer and was a long-time director of the Fechtsport Gummersbach association .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Anschütz - Obituaries - Main-Echo Obituary Portal . Retrieved June 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ Helmut Anschütz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ).
  3. ↑ a b Rolf Weidemann and Osman Uzgidis: History of Fencing Gummersbach v. 1890 eV Fechtsport Gummersbach, accessed on June 20, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Anschütz, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fencer and Olympic participant
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 2016