Jochen Bachfeld

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Jochen Bachfeld (born December 17, 1952 in Sülte ) is a former German boxer . He was an Olympic welterweight champion in Montreal in 1976 .

Career

Jochen Bachfeld started as a teenager when SC Traktor Schwerin with the boxes . He was trained there by coach Paul Nickel to become a world class boxer. Jochen Bachfeld was an excellent technician and stylist. His international career began in 1970. He took an excellent second place at the European Junior Championships in Miskolc in the light flyweight (up to 48 kg body weight) with wins over Arif Dogu, Turkey , Enrique Cal Rodríguez, Spain and Georgi Kostadinow, Bulgaria and a point defeat in the final against the Hungarian Peter Gluck .

In 1972 Jochen Bachfeld won his first GDR championship title in the senior featherweight division ahead of Hartmut Helmbold from SG Wismut Gera and his club colleague Norbert Warnke. In the same year he won the featherweight chemistry cup in Halle and was then sent to the Olympic Games in Munich . In Munich he won the first round over Peter Prause from the Federal Republic of Germany on points and also won his second fight against William Taylor from Great Britain . In the last sixteen he lost to Gabriel Pometcu from Romania and was eliminated without a medal. After the Olympic Games, he started in Gera in an international match between the GDR and Romania and was defeated in the lightweight against Simion Cuțov on points. In the years that followed, Jochen Bachfeld, whose unusual boxing skills were undisputed, was very carefully built up and deployed by those in charge of the GDR boxing association because he was already susceptible to injury.

In 1973, for example, he did not start at the GDR championship, but took part in the Berlin TSC tournament and won this lightweight tournament (up to 60 kg body weight) by winning points over the Soviet athlete V. Bilijew. In an international match between the GDR and Poland in Berlin, he also won the lightweight over Ryszard Tomczyk .

In 1974 he was absent from the GDR championship, but was still used in the first-time world championship for amateurs in Havana . There he had the bad luck to meet the Soviet favorite Wassili Solomin in the lightweight and had to be taken out of the ring in the first round. Solomin then also became world champion. In the same year Jochen Bachfeld had to take a knockout loss in the second round in the international match Poland against GDR in Poznan against Bogdan Jakubowski.

In 1975 Jochen Bachfeld was defeated at the TSC tournament in Berlin in the final against Ulrich Beyer due to a technical knockout (injury) in the second round.

1976 was then Jochen Bachfeld's big year. He first won his second GDR championship title in the welterweight division by winning points in the final over Peter Spilski from SC Dynamo Berlin . Then he won the 16th Honved Cup in Budapest in welterweight (up to 67 kg body weight) by winning the final battle over Zbigniew Kicka from Poland. And yet Jochen Bachfeld's Olympic hopes seemed to be a long way off when he had to give up injured at the chemistry cup in Halle, which was considered a qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games. Recovered from his injury just in time, Jochen Bachfeld won an international tournament in Gera shortly before the Olympic Games and was nominated for the Olympic team.

In Montreal , Jochen Bachfeld won the preliminary round over Ali Bahri Khomani from Iran by breaking off because of too much superiority in the first round. In his next fight he defeated Athannasos Iliadis of Greece on points. In the round of 16 he defeated Valery Rachkow from the Soviet Union with 4-1 judges' votes on points and also won his quarter-final fight against the Canadian Carmen Rinke on points. In the semifinals against Victor Zilberman from Romania and in the final against Pedro Gamarro from Venezuela , Jochen Bachfeld was lucky. He won both fights with 3-2 judges' votes and thus became Olympic champion . For this success he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.

In 1977 Jochen Bachfeld hardly appeared. But he was back at the 1978 World Cup in Belgrade in the welterweight division. In Belgrade he won a preliminary round fight against Joash Kitui from Kenya by knockout in the second round, but lost in the round of 16 against Valery Ratschkow with 2: 3 judges' votes.

In 1979 Jochen Bachfeld won an international match between the GDR and Uganda in Schwerin over John Mugabi , later professional world champion, on points.

At the end of 1979 Jochen Bachfeld ended his career as a boxer because of his vulnerability to injury. He completed a total of 119 fights with 109 wins. He then worked as an industry manager in a Schwerin plant and became a hotelier after the political change in the GDR. He is on the board of the BSC Schwerin. After many years of professional activity in the Carl Friedrich Flemming Clinic in Schwerin as a sports therapist for patients, Jochen Bachfeld retired at the beginning of 2017.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany , November 15, 1970, page 8
  2. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).

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personal data
SURNAME Bachfeld, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Sülte