René Breitbarth
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 March 1986: René Breitbarth wins against Iwan Filtschew |
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| silver | 1986 Reno | Bantam |
| European championships | ||
| gold | 1985 Budapest | Half flying |
| bronze | 1987 Turin | Bantam |
René Breitbarth (born March 24, 1966 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia ) is a former GDR boxer and Bundesliga coach in Leverkusen .
Amateur career
René Breitbarth learned boxing at the age of nine in Stralsund . His athletic career began with gymnastics, which he gave up due to an injury-related training deficit. Through his neighbor and former boxing trainer from Lok Stralsund, Heinz-Peter Schmidt , who later u. a. was also Jürgen Brähmer's first trainer , he came to boxing. As a teenager he became district champion in 1978 and 1979 and won the Baltic Cup tournament in 1979 .
At the age of 13 he switched to SC Traktor Schwerin . As an 18-year-old he was in 1984 in one year junior and senior champion of the GDR in light flyweight . In the same year he won first place at the European Junior Championships in Tampere and made the leap seamlessly to the seniors by winning the European light flyweight championship in 1985 in Budapest , where he defeated the reigning world champion Iwajlo Marinow in the final. He then moved to the next but one weight class, bantamweight, where he was East German champion in 1986 and vice world champion in Reno . In 1987 he was GDR champion as well as third at the European Championships in Turin and second at the World Cup in Belgrade . At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 he was eliminated in the third round. Shortly afterwards, at the age of 22, he initially ended his active sports career.
In the course of reunification , he and his successful coach Fritz Sdunek moved to TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen , where he attempted a comeback as an active athlete. In 1990 he was runner-up at the German championships in Hamburg. Shortly afterwards he broke off the attempt and became Sduneks assistant coach.
In 1986 Breitbarth was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver in the GDR .
Coaching career
After Fritz Sdunek switched to the professional camp in 1993, Breitbarth took over the post of head coach and led the Bundesliga team to win the title in 2001. Leverkusen was thus the first team champion from the old federal territory after reunification. His coaching successes include, for example, winning the European Championship in 2000 by Adnan Ćatić (known as "Felix Sturm" in the professional field) and the Vice European Championship in Perm in 2002 by Lukas Wilaschek . He ended his coaching career in 2003.
International tournament victories
- Chemistry Cup , Halle 1986, 1987, 1988
- Flying Dutch Open, Amsterdam 1986
- Stockholm Box Open 1986
- Copenhagen Box Open 1987
- French Open, St.Nizzaire 1988
Web links
- René Breitbarth in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Boxing results on Sport-komplett.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Kluge (Ed.): Lexicon of athletes in the GDR. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 .
- ↑ High awards given to deserving athletes. In: New Germany . Newspaper archive of the Berlin State Library, October 15, 1986, p. 7 , accessed on February 16, 2014 (free registration required).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Breitbarth, René |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German boxer and trainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mühlhausen / Thuringia |