Sebastian Köber

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Sebastian Köber boxer
Data
Birth Name Sebastian Köber
Weight class Heavyweight
nationality German
birthday May 28, 1979
place of birth Frankfurt (Oder)
size 1.93 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles 21st
Victories 19th
Knockout victories 13
Defeats 2

Sebastian Köber (born May 28, 1979 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) is a German heavyweight boxer. He is the brother of the amateur boxer Stefan Köber .

Amateur career

Köber started as an amateur in the Boxing Bundesliga for BC Frankfurt (Oder) . He celebrated his first success in 1996 when he won the German Junior Championship. He was then nominated as the German representative for the Junior World Championship, but failed in the preliminary round. In 1997 he successfully defended the German junior title and was also junior European champion. When he first participated in the German Senior Championships, he finished second in 1998, and came third the following year.

At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney he failed with a point defeat (8:14) against gold medalist Félix Savón , but still secured the bronze medal by participating in the semi-finals, but lost at the 2000 European Championships in Tampere , Finland in the round of 16 against the French Jackson Chanet who eventually won the title.

For winning the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, Federal President Johannes Rau awarded him the Silver Laurel Leaf.

He achieved a prestigious victory at the 29th Chemistry Cup 2001 in Halle . Köber was able to defeat two future gold medalists at the 2004 Olympic Games. In the quarterfinals he scored a narrow point win 6: 5 against Odlanier Solís and then defeated Alexander Powetkin 12: 8 in the final . At the World Championships in Belfast , Northern Ireland in the same year, he did not get past the quarterfinals due to a point defeat by David Haye .

In 2002 Köber was, with a victory over Roberto Cammarelle , military world champion, also second in the German championship and third in the European championship in Perm , Russia . He was clearly defeated by Powetkin in the semifinals in Perm this time, the fight was stopped in the fourth round due to superiority.

In 2003 he became German champion for the first time in Wismar and again took third place at the World Championships in Bangkok , Thailand . Among other things, he was able to win against the Kazakh silver medalist of 2000, Muchtarchan Dildabekow , 20:19, but was then defeated in the semifinals against Pedro Carrión . In the final of the chemistry cup he lost to Cammarelle after he had been able to prevail in the semifinals against Alexei Lesin .

2004 was not very successful for Köber. At the European Championships in Pula he failed early on against Italian Roberto Cammarelle and in the round of 16 of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens he was clearly defeated by Dildabekow with 18:26 points.

In 2005 he lost in the final of the German championship against Boris Boshenko on points and could not qualify for the world championship in Mianyang , China . The 33rd Chemistry Cup ended for Köber with a knockout loss in the semifinals against the Lithuanian Jaroslavas Jakšto , whom he was able to defeat when he won the title at the World Military Championships in Pretoria , his only success that year.

Success as an amateur

  • German junior champion 1996 and 1997, German champion 2003
  • Junior European Champion 1997, third place European Championship 2002
  • Second place EU championship 2003
  • Third place Olympic Games 2000
  • Chemistry Cup 2001
  • Military world champion in 2002 and 2005
  • Third place World Championship 2003

Professional career

In 2006 Sebastian Köber signed a professional contract with the Hamburg boxing stable Spotlight Boxing , a sister company of Universum Box-Promotion . His professional debut took place on April 29, 2006 in Stuttgart . He was able to win his first eleven fights against opponents early on. This was followed by six wins on points before he defeated his previously undefeated stable mate Dieter Roth by knockout in the tenth and final round on December 5, 2008 in the battle for the German interim heavyweight championship .

In October 2009 Sebastian Köber defeated Markus Tomala, who was undefeated in six professional fights, over ten rounds by just a few points. In his 20th professional fight on January 9, 2010, Köber was surprisingly defeated by the American Zack Page, who at that time had only won 19 of his 48 professional fights. He lost the six-round fight in the Magdeburg Bördelandhalle on points. He then played a rematch against Tomala in May 2010, which he also lost over six rounds on points.

Others

Sebastian Köber is a trained banker and during his amateur career he signed up as a temporary soldier for the Bundeswehr sports promotion group from 2001 , most recently with the rank of sergeant . In addition to his sports career, Köber is studying business administration at the Distance University in Hagen .

His brother Stefan , who is five years his junior, is also a successful amateur boxer who was already a German champion.


Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NTV of February 2, 2001: Federal President Rau ... has awarded the medal winner of the 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games the Silver Laurel Leaf,

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personal data
SURNAME Köber, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxer
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)