Matthias Brehme

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Matthias Brehme before an international match, 1969
Matthias Brehme before an international match, 1969

Apparatus gymnast

Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic
Olympic Summer Games
bronze 1968 Team all-around
bronze 1972 Team all-around
World championships
bronze 1966 Team all-around
bronze 1970 Team all-around

Matthias Brehme (born February 7, 1943 in Markkleeberg ) is a former German gymnast . Starting in the 1960s and 1970s, he won a total of five medals for the German Democratic Republic (GDR) at the Summer Olympics , World Championships and European Championships, as well as ten national individual titles at GDR championships.

Sporting successes

Matthias Brehme at the GDR championships in 1969

Matthias Brehme began gymnastics in his hometown at SSG Markkleeberg-West, from which he moved to SC Lokomotive Leipzig in 1957 and to SC DHfK Leipzig in 1963 , which remained his home club for his further career. His trainers in Leipzig were Heinz Nowakowski , Jochen Nonnast and Siegfried Fülle .

At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , he was captain of the gymnastics squad of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), with which he won a bronze medal in the team all-around competition at both games. In the individual all-around competition, he finished twelfth in 1968 and tenth in 1972.

At the World Gymnastics Championships in Dortmund in 1966 and in Ljubljana in 1970 , he was also third in the team all-around with the GDR team. In 1971 he achieved his greatest international individual success at the European Championships with second place on the pommel horse .

He won a total of ten national individual titles at GDR championships, including five in 1965. In 1965 and 1966 he won the individual all-around, 1969 in horse jumping , 1965 and 1967 on pommel horse, 1965 and 1966 on parallel bars , 1965 and 1966 on horizontal bar and 1965 in Ring gymnastics . Even after retiring from international competitive sport, he successfully completed many competitions for the Markkleeberg 1871 gymnastics club until 1995.

Life after competitive sport

During his sports career, Matthias Brehme studied at the German University for Physical Culture in Leipzig and then studied medicine . After the end of his active career he became a doctor for neurology and psychiatry , in the GDR he was later awarded the honorary title of medical advisor. After 1990 he opened his own practice in his hometown Markkleeberg. In addition, until 2008 he was chairman of the regional association of Saxony in the professional association of German neurologists, neurologists and psychiatrists.

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personal data
SURNAME Brehme, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German apparatus gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Markkleeberg