Jörg Behrend

Jörg Behrend medal table
German Democratic Republic of Germany
World championships
gold	1989 Stuttgart	Horse jump
silver	1989 Stuttgart	team
GDR championships
gold	1987	ground
gold	1989	Rings
bronze	1986	Horse jump
bronze	1987	Rings
bronze	1988	ground
bronze	1989	All-around
bronze	1989	Horse jump
bronze	1989	Horizontal bar
Spartakiad
gold	1981	Rings
silver	1981	Ingots
silver	1981	ground
silver	1983	Ingots
silver	1983	Rings
bronze	1983	All-around
bronze	1983	Pommel horse
bronze	1983	Horizontal bar

Jörg Behrend (born December 24, 1966 in Potsdam ) is a former gymnast who started for the GDR and, after reunification, for the Federal Republic of Germany . His greatest success was in 1989 when he won the world championship in horse jumping .

Life

Success in youth and change to "ASK Vorwärts Potsdam"

Jörg Behrend came to gymnastics through his older sister. He began training with Horst Jahn at the Turbine Potsdam training center at the age of six . The first successes came in the early 1980s at the Spartakiaden . In 1981 Behrend won the youth competition on rings and took second place on bars and floor . At the Spartakiad 1983 he reached second place on the parallel bars and on the rings as well as third places in the all-around, on the horizontal bar and pommel horse .

In 1986, Behrend for NVA - Army Sports Club ASK forward Potsdam , where he was trained by Werner Schenk. In the same year, the specialist in rings and horse jumping was third in the GDR championships for senior jumpers, behind Sylvio Kroll and Thomas Knüpfer . The following year, Behrend was the first GDR champion on the ground, ahead of Kroll and his club colleague Holger Behrendt . In addition, he won bronze behind Behrendt and Sven Tippelt on the rings and was fourth in the all-around competition, in which Tippelt, Kroll and Behrendt won the medals.

Winning the world championship and ending his international career

Internationally, Jörg Behrend, called "Little", first attracted attention in 1988. Although he was not considered for the GDR national team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , he won his first World Cup victory in China on the rings and also came third in the all-around competition in Beijing. Further victories in competitions on the rings in Tunisia and Hungary followed.

The greatest success in Behrend's career came in 1989. After winning three medals at the GDR championships (gold on the rings, bronze in the horse jump and on the horizontal bar) and an eleventh place in the EM all-around competition in Stockholm (he fell in the horse jump), he was part of the national team at the world championships in Stuttgart GDR. After winning the silver medal in the team competition together with Sven Tippelt, Sylvio Kroll, Andreas Wecker and Jens Milbradt behind the Soviet Union, Behrend initially did not reach any of the equipment finals. As a result, his team-mate Tippelt, who was qualified for four finals, decided not to take part in the horse jump, so that Behrend, who was more highly rated on this device, was able to contest the final as a successor. In this, Behrend managed a new type of jump (flip with full turn and subsequent somersault) that had been prepared for three years for the first time without errors. After he often overshot the rotations in the past, he then added a somersault. He surprisingly won the gold medal with 9.881 points, just ahead of his compatriot Sylvio Kroll (9.874) and the Soviet athlete Vladimir Artyomov (9.868). After Andreas Wecker's defeat on the rings against the German Andreas Aguilar , Behrend was named after Ernst Winter (1934 on the horizontal bar), Eberhard Gienger ( FRG , 1974 on the horizontal bar), Roland Brückner (GDR, 1979 on the floor), Michael Nikolay ( GDR, 1981 on the pommel horse), Ralf-Peter Hemmann (GDR, 1981 on the horse jump) and Sylvio Kroll (1985 on the parallel bars and 1987 on the horse jump) to the eighth German gymnastics world champion since 1903. After the World Cup triumph, Behrend married in November of the same Year his fiancée and planned to start a sports college degree in Magdeburg for a later career as a coach .

After the turmoil at the turn of 1989/90, in which Behrend's association “ASK Vorwärts Potsdam” was wound up, the trained assembly and system fitter did not manage to build on the previous international successes. Behrend missed the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona . In March 1993, in preparation for the World Gymnastics Championships in Birmingham , he took part in an international match between Germany and Switzerland, in which he placed third in the all -around event with 54.10 points behind his teammate Jan-Peter Nikiferow (54.75) and the Swiss champion Daniel Giubellini (54.40) took. The German head coach Franz Heinlein then nominated Behrend for the World Cup, where he gave him a chance to reach the device finals on the horizontal bar. In a close duel in the elimination round for the all-around competition, he was defeated by his teammate Nikiferow after several uncertainties about pommel horse with a total of 53,500 to 53,575 points. As Andreas Wecker and Nikiferow were only allowed to take part in the German federation's two active athletes, Behrend missed the all-round final of the best 24 gymnasts.

Jörg Behrend lives in Schiltach . From 1997 he did gymnastics for the TV Schiltach , where he also began to work as a trainer and swimming master. He also appeared at gymnastics and league competitions alongside his former GDR team- mates Ralf Büchner (2002) and Andreas Feigel (2008). Behrend ended his active competitive career at league level in December 2011 at the age of almost 45.

Web links

• Portrait at gymmedia.com, December 4, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Jörg Behrend . In: Internationales Sportarchiv 01/1990 of December 25, 1989 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} portrait  ( 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. at gymmedia.com, December 4, 2011 (accessed August 29, 2012).  
3. ↑ Acute dangers averted, important structures preserved . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 13, 1991, p. 32.
4. ↑ Getting used to lower notes for the first time . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 29, 1993, p. 37.
5. ↑ Hope bearer alarm clock . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , April 10, 1993 (accessed via Wiso presse ).
6. ↑ Belenki earns points . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, April 14, 1993 (accessed via Wiso presse).
7. ↑ Roos, Jürgen: With an excellent feeling for the championship title . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , May 8, 2000, p. 32.
8. ↑ Kühl, Torsten: Büchner undisputedly the "Lord of the Rings" . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , March 18, 2002, edition: Naumburg (accessed via Wiso presse).
9. ↑ Season finale with a lot of momentum / promotion for gymnastics: The Baden League final in Singen . In: Südkurier , March 18, 2008 (accessed via Wiso presse).