Jörn Meiners

Jörn Meiners (born May 26, 1973 in Nördlingen ) is a German Ju-Jutsuka who won gold in fighting in the weight class up to 62 kg at the 1997 World Games in Lahti and in 1998 the world title in Berlin in the same class.

Career

Meiners started judo at TSV Nördlingen in 1986 . He also played basketball and soccer. In 1987 he started playing ju-jutsu and started his competitive career in 1989. In 1991 he became German youth champion and as the first athlete in Ju-Jutsu in 1992, he became German men's master in his first active year . Meiners was appointed to the national team by national coach Roland Köhler at the age of 19 and was used for the first time in a major tournament in 1996. He was fifth at the World Championships in Paris, his current wife Ulrike (then Limmer) was third. 1997 was his most successful year of competitions. He won the gold medal at the World Games in Lahti (Finland) and the silver medal at the European Championships in Stockholm in the men's weight category up to 62 kg. In 1998 he crowned his competitive career with the world title in Berlin.

He ended his active career in 2000. He then became a Bavarian national coach. In a short comeback in 2007/2008 he was third again at the German Championship in 2007 and the German Open in 2008. Jörn Meiners was Bavarian regional coach from 1999 to 2007 and federal teaching assistant for the German Ju-Jutsu Association (DJJV) from 2003 to 2007 . He has the 6th Dan in Ju-Jutsu and has been the national coach of the DJJV for juniors U18 and U21 since 2011, as well as the youth team leader.

successes

• three times German champion (1991, 1992 and 1998)
• four times German team champion with the Würzburg district club SV Oberdürrbach (1993, 1994, 1995 and 2011)
• twice winner of the Danish Open (1995 and 1996)
• twice winner of the Göta Open in Sweden (1995 and 1996)
• Winner of the Rotterdam Open 1995
• Winner of the US Open in the duo competition with his daughter Svenja Meiners 2015

Life

He studied German and geography with a Magister Artium at the Bavarian Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg and graduated from the DOSB at the Cologne Trainer Academy , where he graduated in 2003. He is also a fitness trainer, sports gymnastics trainer and nutrition trainer for the BSA.

Today Meiners is the managing director of Meiners GmbH, which sells (combat) sporting goods, and in his publishing house he also publishes numerous instructional DVDs on the subject of training, training theory and martial arts. In 2000, Meiners was voted third place for Rieser Sportsman of the Century in Nördlingen, the first was the legendary "Bomber of the Nation", Gerd Müller .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Officials of Ju-Jutsu and Jiu-Jitsu. German Ju-Jutsu Association V., accessed on January 12, 2010 .