Julia Irmen

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Julia Irmen (born September 22, 1984 in Stralsund ) is a former German kickboxer . She is multiple kickboxing world champion in various associations.

Julia Irmen WKU Super Fight, Berlin 2012

Career

Ana Tome ( POR ) vs. Julia Irmen ( GER ) WKU Super Fight, Berlin 2012

Julia Irmen grew up in Stralsund on the Baltic Sea. Her mother is a nurse and her father was a marine electronics engineer. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , she went to Dingolfing in Lower Bavaria with her two brothers and her mother . After secondary school , she enlisted in the armed forces . After completing basic training in Kempten, she was transferred to the Medical Academy in Munich . Subsequently, from 2004 in Deggendorf , she trained as a policewoman with the Federal Police . In the meantime she works for a mission team in Deggendorf. She has been married to her husband Stefan since 2008. In 2011 she became the mother of a son. She now lives with her family in Osterhofen .

Athletic career

Julia Irmen originally trained volleyball. After a shoulder injury in 2001, she looked for compensation and got into kickboxing. After many successes in amateur - kickboxing , she moved for a few years for amateur boxing . Here she became multiple German champion. However, after she missed the qualification for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, she got an offer from Mladen Steko to be trained by him. She accepted this with thanks. Since then she has fought regularly for the world championship title in professional kickboxing as part of the Steko's Fight Night . Their battle name was "The Cop". In April 2015 she announced her resignation until June 2015.

Professional kickbox title

  • WKU Kickboxing World Champion 2015
  • WKU Kickboxing World Champion 2014
  • WKU Kickboxing World Champion 2013
  • WAKO Kickboxing World Champion 2009
  • WKU European Kickboxing Champion 2013

Amateur kickboxing title

  • multiple Bavarian champion
  • 11 times German champion
  • 6-time International German Champion
  • 4-time winner of the Austrian Classics
  • 2 × bronze medal at world championships
  • 1 × bronze medal at European Championships
  • WAKO Vice European Champion 2008 (full contact)
  • WAKO European Champion 2008 (light contact)
  • WAKO World Champion 2009 (full contact)
  • WAKO World Champion 2009 (light contact)

Amateur boxing title

  • 3-time Bavarian champion in boxing -60 kg
  • 4 times German champion in boxing -60 kg
  • Gold medalist at the World Police and Fire Games 2009 in Vancouver (Canada)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.bild.de/sport/mehr-sport/kickboxen/julia-irmen-verteilt-hiebe-30070982.bild.html accessed September 16, 2014
  2. http://www.stekos-fight-night.de/fighter/thorsten-mehnert/ accessed September 16, 2014
  3. Julia Irmen: Helfen gives her the kick , evening newspaper from June 16, 2013, accessed August 16, 2019
  4. focus.de/ueberraschender-ruecktritt-kickbox-weltmeisterin-julia-irmen-hoert Retrieved April 26, 2015
  5. http://www.wako-deutschland.de/Kickboxen-Sportler/Europameister.html accessed December 29, 2015
  6. http://www.wako-deutschland.de/Kickboxen-Sportler/Weltmeister.html accessed December 29, 2015
  7. http://julia-irmen.de/erhaben/ accessed September 16, 2014
  8. http://www.wako-deutschland.de/Kickboxen-Sportler/Weltmeister.html accessed December 29, 2015
  9. http://www.stekos-fight-night.de/fighter/thorsten-mehnert/ accessed September 16, 2014