Robert Felisiak

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Robert Felisiak (born October 11, 1962 in Breslau , Poland ) is a former Polish, from 1989 German fencer who was Olympic champion and vice world champion with the sword .

Life

In 1988 Robert Felisiak left Poland and joined the Tauberbischofsheim fencing club . At the fencing world championship in 1989 Robert Felisiak was for the first time in a major tournament in the German national fencing team and won the silver medal with the team. At the fencing world championship in 1991 he won bronze with the team. In the individual finals he was defeated by Andrei Shuvalov from the Soviet Union and won the silver medal.

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​Felisiak finished ninth in the individual competition. He won gold with the German Degen team, with Vladimir Resnitschenko , who won bronze with the Soviet Union in 1988, a second late-naturalized member of the team.

For winning the gold medal, he received the silver bay leaf on June 23, 1993.

In early 1993, Robert Felisiak joined the Jehovah's Witnesses . Since membership of the Jehovah's Witnesses is incompatible with practicing a martial arts, his sporting career ended. His employment contract as coordinator at the competitive sports center Tauberbischofsheim also ended. Nevertheless, from 2005 until at least 2010 he was a member of the coaching team at the fencing club of TSF Ditzingen .

Awards

literature

  • Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 .
  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Barcelona 92. The German Olympic team. Frankfurt am Main 1992.

Individual evidence

  1. Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport: [...] on June 23, 1993 Federal President von Weizsäcker [...] honored disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Parlymic Games , with the silver bay leaf from [...]
  2. Volkhart Weizsäcker: Editorial . In: Der Fechterbüttel - official club newspaper . No. 1 , March 2005, p. 1 .
  3. Christof Baumann: TSF Ditzingen fencing club - five championship titles and one "man of the year". In: fechten-ditzingen.de. December 22, 2010, accessed November 21, 2016 .