Klaus Schenkel (fencer)

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Klaus Schenkel (* 1940 in Görlitz ) is a German fencer and fencing trainer .

Life

Schenkel, who started for ASK Vorwärts Leipzig , was appointed to the GDR 's national men's floret team at the age of 22 . His greatest successes included the GDR men's floret singles championship in 1965, as well as two runner-up titles (1964 and 1967) and a third place in 1966. He completed his studies as a qualified athlete and became the GDR national coach.

On January 26, 1990, the selected coach left the GDR for the Tauberbischofsheim fencing club , worked for a long time as a national youth coach in Bonn, and after his retirement he switched back to FC Tauberbischofsheim, where he now looks after the club's own youngsters in the men's floret together with Lars Schache .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the GDR master. Deutscher Fechter-Bund eV, accessed on February 18, 2015 .
  2. ^ History of the GDR championships men. sport-komplett.de, May 12, 2008, accessed on April 11, 2013 .
  3. ^ Chronicle of the sports unit: from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the inclusion of the five new state sports federations on December 15, 1990 in the German Sports Federation (PDF 4.7 MB) (No longer available online.) Dosb.de, archived from the original on October 1, 2011 ; accessed in September 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dosb.de
  4. ↑ Convincing performance in Bratislava. Newspaper article about Schenkel's time as the national coach of young men's florets in Bonn. October 14, 2008, accessed April 11, 2013 .
  5. ↑ When fencing becomes a matter of the heart. Article on the website of FC Tauberbischofsheim with Schenkel as coach. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 19, 2005 ; Retrieved April 11, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fechtentbb.de
personal data
SURNAME Schenkel, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fencing trainer
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz