Jürgen Brecht

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Jürgen Brecht
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Jürgen Brecht (1967)
Jürgen Brecht (1967)

fencing

GermanyGermany Germany
Olympic rings Olympic games
bronze 1960 Rome Foil team
fencing World championships
silver HungaryHungary 1959 Budapest Foil team
bronze ArgentinaArgentina 1962 Buenos Aires Foil single
fencing German championships
gold 1960 foil
gold 1964 foil
gold 1967 foil

Jürgen Brecht (born March 1, 1940 in Speyer ) is a former German fencer who was multiple German champions , was the first German to successfully take part in a world championship after the war and won the bronze medal with the team at the 1960 Olympic Games . For this, he and the team ( Jürgen Theuerkauff , Eberhard Mehl , Tim Gerresheim , Dieter Schmitt and Toni Stock ) were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on December 9, 1960.

Athletic career

Brecht came to fencing through Kurt Noé in 1950. In 1954 he was in the finals of the Palatinate Championships, which he regularly won in all three weapons ( foil , epee , saber ) over the next few years . From 1957 to 1967 he took part in eleven German championships. The years 1959 to 1962, in which he started for the fencing club Kurpfalz, were the most successful in Jürgen Brecht's sports career.

At the age of 19, Brecht was the first German to reach a world championship final after the World War ( Fencing World Championships 1959 in Budapest). Most recently, the legendary Erwin Casmir had made it to the finals before him in 1936. Together with the team, Brecht was runner-up in Budapest.

His best individual performance was a third place in the world championships in 1962 in Buenos Aires in foil fencing, behind the world champion German Sweschnikow (USSR) and the Polish Witold Woyda . His bronze medal in 1962 and the silver medal with the team in 1959 were the only men's medals that the German fencers, who were later spoiled for success, brought home from these world championships.

With the team Jürgen Theuerkauff , Eberhard Mehl , and Tim Gerresheim he won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 and is still the only fencer from the Palatinate who has participated in the Olympic Games (Rome 1960, Tokyo 1964 and Mexico 1968 ).

Jürgen Brecht was used in 80 international matches and played numerous national and international tournaments . He was twice German junior champion in foil, once German junior champion in epee and three times German champion of the active.

Single successes

  • 1962 Bronze World Cup Buenos Aires

Team successes

  • 1959 silver WM Budapest
  • 1960 bronze Olympic Games Rome

Professional career

In 1962/63 he made his diploma as a fencing master at the French "National Sports Institute Joinville" near Paris and began his studies in 1964 at the Sports University in Cologne , which he completed in 1969 as a certified sports teacher.

Jürgen Brecht was head of the sports department at BASF .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information given to the Bundestag by the Federal Government on September 29, 1973 - Printed matter 7/1040 - Annex 3, pages 54 ff., Here page 58.
personal data
SURNAME Brecht, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fencer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer