Marko Spittka

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Marko Spittka (born April 22, 1971 in Dresden ) is a German judoka who won an Olympic bronze medal in 1996.

At the Horst Wolf memorial tournament in 1988, Marko Spittka came second behind Daniel Lascău . After he had won silver in the class up to 78 kilograms under the DJV junior coach Detlef Ultsch at the Junior European Championship in 1989, he won the Junior World Championship in March 1990 and the Junior European Championship in November 1990. While he was still running for the German Democratic Republic in March , he started for the reunified Germany from October 1990. In February 1991 he won a World Cup tournament for the first time in Paris. In 1992 Spittka won his first German championship title. He won the European Championships in Paris and finished second in the World Military Championships. At the military world championships, Spittka competed in the weight class up to 86 kilograms for the first time, but it wasn't until September 1993 that he started constantly in the heavier class. In 1994 he reached the final in his weight class at the team world championship in Paris and then lost to the French Vincenzo Carabetta . A month later he won the title with the German team at the European Team Championship in The Hague.

In 1995 Spittka won his first German championship title in the class up to 86 kilograms, which he successfully defended in 1996 and 1997. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Spittka only lost in the semifinals against the eventual Olympic champion Jeon Ki-young from South Korea, in the hope round Spittka secured the bronze medal. A year later, Spittka met the South Korean again in the final of the World Cup in Paris and lost again. In 1998 the weight class up to 86 kilograms was replaced by the weight class up to 90 kilograms, and Spittka won the first German championship in this new weight class. At the European Championships in Oviedo he reached the final, where he was defeated by the Dutchman Mark Huizinga . This was Spittka's last grand finale. Two years later he appeared again at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, but was eliminated in the first round.

Marko Spittka won all of his championship titles as a member of the Judo Club 90 from Frankfurt (Oder) . Nonetheless, he won the German team championship with TSV Abensberg in 1996 and 1997 and won the 1997 European Cup with Abensberg.

From the beginning of 2013 to mid-2019, Marko Spittka was the national trainer of the Austrian Judo Association. He thus succeeded Udo Quellmalz .

Honor

literature

  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Sydney 2000. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Championships on sport-complete , Spittka is also referred to in the Olympic brochures as a club member of Frankfurt.
  2. ^ German team championships
  3. ↑ Olympic brochure 2000 p. 179
  4. ↑ Marko Spittka new national coach
  5. ↑ Spittka is no longer Austria's head coach for women
  6. ↑ Märkische Allgemeine , December 16, 2013, p. 18
personal data
SURNAME Spittka, Marko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judoka
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden