Stefan Gertel

Stefan Gertel (born May 12, 1960 in Worms ) is a former German boxer .

Career

Stefan Gertel only started boxing at the age of 16 in 1976 at the Turngemeinde 1846 Worms . He comes from a large family, from which his brother Helmut Gertel Boxer and, like him, also became German master of amateurs. Stefan Gertel's trainers in Worms were Erich Kress and Kurt Fink. In the national team, these were Dieter Wemhöner and Helmut Ranze . Stefan Gertel learned the profession of office clerk, but during part of his boxer career he was a contract soldier in the German Armed Forces, where he was a member of the sports promotion company in Mannheim. He was a technically gifted boxer who only sometimes lacked the necessary toughness required for a boxer of the absolute world class at crucial moments in his career.

Stefan Gertel was German junior champion as early as 1977 and in 1978 for the first time German champion in the senior class in paper weight (class up to 48 kg body weight). He won this flyweight title in 1979 and bantamweight from 1980 to 1983. He won other German championship titles in 1985 and 1988 in featherweight.

Stefan Gertel made his first start at an international championship at the European Amateur Championship in 1979 in Cologne. He started there in the paper weight category and won over Ion Boboc from Romania on points. In the quarterfinals he lost to Georgi Georgiev from Bulgaria just on points (2: 3 judges' votes) and thus finished 5th.

After Stefan Gertel could not take part in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow because of the boycott of these games by the German sports management, he started again in 1981 at the European Championships, which took place in Tampere . He won there in bantamweight over Misoslav Vrba from the ČSSR (5: 0) and Metodi Metow from Bulgaria (5: 0) on points and was defeated in the semifinals by the Yugoslav Sami Buzoli (0: 5), with which he won an EM bronze medal. This was to remain the greatest success in Stefan Gertel's career. Stefan Gertel also boxed at the CISM military world championships in Jacksonville / USA in 1981 . The countries that did not belong to the Warsaw Pact or did not sympathize with it were united in the CISM. Seen in this way, military sport was divided into two parts in those years. In Jacksonville he got to the final, in which he was defeated by the Thai Payoo Pooltarat on points.

At the 1982 World Cup in Munich , Stefan Gertel was eliminated in the bantamweight division in the round of 16. He lost there again against Sami Buzoli on points (1: 4) and also at the European Championship 1983 in Varna was his last stop in the round of 16, when he clearly lost on points (0: 5) against Kostadin Georgiev from Bulgaria. In 1983 he was again CISM military vice world champion.

Stefan Gertel had bad luck at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles . Since most of the strong boxers from the Eastern Bloc countries were missing there, he figured he had a good chance of winning a medal. But already in his first fight against Frenchman Louis Gomis he was hit so hard on the chin in the first round that he suffered a broken jaw. The Olympic Games were over for him. After a long break from injury, he returned to the ring in 1985, but was never able to regain the shape of 1984. Until 1990 he played many Bundesliga fights for the CSC Frankfurt (Main) . In his career he fought over 300 fights, of which he remained victorious in 275 fights.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1979	5.	EM in Cologne	paper	with a point victory over Ion Boboc, Romania a . a point defeat (2: 3) against Georgi Georgiev , Bulgaria
1980	1.	11th Grand Prix in Ústí nad Labem	To fly	with point wins over Jorge Hernandez, Cuba (4: 1) u. Jozef Maron, ČSSR (3: 2)
1981	3.	Intern. Tournament in Venice	Bantam	after the demolition victory in the 3rd round over Boi, Italy a . Aborted defeat in the 2nd round against Dudas, Hungary
1981	3.	EM in Tampere	Bantam	with points wins over Miroslav Vrba, ČSSR (5: 0) u. Metodi Metow, Bulgaria (5: 0) u. a point defeat against Sami Buzoli , Yugoslavia (0: 5)
1981	2.	CISM military world championships in Jacksonville / USA	Bantam	with points victories over Akpabit, Nigeria u. Perez, Venezuela a . a point loss to Payoo Pooltarat, Thailand
1982	3.	Chemistry Cup in Halle (Saale)	Bantam	after a point defeat in the semifinals against Klaus-Dieter Kirchstein , GDR (2: 3)
1982	2.	Acropolis tournament in Athens	Bantam	after a point victory over Gonzalez, Spain a . a point loss in the final against Karavoulis, Greece
1982	9.	World Cup in Munich	Bantam	after a point defeat in the round of 16 against Sami Buzoli (1: 4)
1983	1.	14th Grand Prix in Ústí nad Labem	Bantam	with a point win in the final over Rafael Cardenas, Cuba
1983	1.	Intercup in Berlin	Bantam	with a point win in the final over Karaca, Turkey
1983	9.	EM in Varna	Bantam	after losing points in the round of 16 against Kostadi Georgiev, Bulgaria
1983	2.	CISM military world championship
1984	17th	OS in Los Angeles	Bantam	after an abandonment loss in the 1st round (injury) against Louis Gomis , France

German championships

year	space	Weight class	Result
1978	1.	paper	with demolition victory in the 2nd round in the final over Piel, Rheinbach
1979	1.	To fly	with a demolition victory in the 1st round over Karl Geisler, Überlingen
1980	1.	Bantam
1981	1.	Bantam	with points victory in the final over Dietmar Stadtmüller, TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1982	1.	Bantam	With an abortion victory in the 3rd round over Harald Körper, Blau-Weiß Pforzheim
1983	1.	Bantam
1985	1.	feather
1988	1.	feather	with points victory over Hubertus Thomes

International battles

year	place	encounter	Weight class	Result
1977	Hemsbach	FRG against England	paper	Points winner over Davidson
1977	Nabburg	FRG against Poland	paper	Points winner over Oldag
1978	trier	FRG against France	paper	Demolition winner in the 1st round over Coutant
1978	Duisburg	FRG against Switzerland	paper	Demolition winner in the 2nd round via Baredt
1978	Luton	England versus FRG	paper	Point defeat against Martin
1978	Dortmund	FRG against Hungary	paper	Points winner over Scuti
1978	Vreden	FRG against Hungary	paper	Point defeat against Scuti
1979	Gelsenkirchen	FRG against Denmark	To fly	Points winner over Kjeld Jensen
1979	Nemours	France against FRG	paper	Winner of the 2nd round over Latraye
1979	Rapid City	USA versus FRG	paper	Points winner over Nathan Mattos (3-0)
1979	Concord	USA versus FRG	paper	Point winner over Rivera
1980	Berlin	FRG versus USA	To fly	Point loss to Randy King
1980	Berlin	FRG versus USA	To fly	Point winner over Randy King
1980	Nairobi	Kenya versus FRG	To fly	Disq. Winner in the 2nd round over Odenga
1980	Mombasa	Kenya versus FRG	To fly	Points winner over Daniel Mwangi
1981	Randers	Denmark versus FRG	Bantam	Demolition winner in the 3rd round over Nic Fernandez
1981	Dublin	Ireland versus FRG	Bantam	Points winner over Roy Webb
1982	Torment	FRG against Denmark	Bantam	Points winner over Jörgen Moller Larsen (2: 1)
1983	Hanover	FRG against Poland	Bantam	Points winner over Slawomir Zapart (2: 1)
1983	Hull	England versus FRG	Bantam	Points winner over Paul Evans
1984	Danzig	Poland against FRG	Bantam	Point defeat against Henryk Średnicki (1: 2)
1987	Nykoping	Denmark versus FRG	feather	Points winner over Jimmy Bredahl (2.1)

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• Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl",
• Box Sport magazine