Sven Tippelt

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Sven Tippelt at the GDR championships in 1989
Sven Tippelt at the GDR championships in 1989

Apparatus gymnast

Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic
Olympic Summer Games
silver 1988 Team all-around
bronze 1988 Ingots
bronze 1988 Ring gymnastics
World championships
silver 1989 Team all-around
bronze 1985 Team all-around
bronze 1987 Team all-around
bronze 1987 Ingots

Sven Tippelt (born June 3, 1965 in Leipzig ) is a former German gymnast . His greatest successes at national and international level, including three medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics , he achieved in all- around , parallel bars and ring gymnastics .

Sporting successes

Sven Tippelt at the GDR championships in 1986

Sven Tippelt won at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul for the German Democratic Republic (GDR) starting a silver medal in the team all-around competition and a bronze medal each in the individual competitions in parallel bars and ring gymnastics. In the individual all-around he took fourth place. Four years later he reached fourth place in the team all- around with the German team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona . In the individual competitions, however, he did not make it into the final round on any device.

At the gymnastics world championships, Sven Tippelt won a silver medal with the GDR team in 1989 and a bronze medal in the team all-around competition in 1985 and 1987. In addition, he finished third on the parallel bars at the 1987 World Championships. He did gymnastics on this device for the first time later named after him Tippelt-Kontergrätsche that in as de Pointage code designated international rating rules of the International Gymnastics Federation under the name "Tippelt" as an exercise of difficulty D applies. A year later, at the Summer Olympics, he performed another element of difficulty level C, later named after him, on the pommel horse .

In 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989 and 1990 he was GDR champion in the individual all-around. In addition, he won the GDR championships in 1985 and 1986 on parallel bars, in 1986 and 1988 in ring gymnastics and in 1986 in floor exercise and on horizontal bar . His father Frank Tippelt was also a GDR champion in gymnastics several times in the 1950s and 1960s. Sven Tippelt's five individual titles at the GDR championships in 1986 represent an achievement that Fabian Hambüchen only repeated at the German championships in 2008 .

In 1988, Tippelt received the Silver Patriotic Order of Merit .

Life after competitive sport

After the Olympic Games in 1992, Sven Tippelt retired from international competitive sport due to injury, and in the following years he competed in Bundesliga competitions up to 2000. Since the end of his active career, he has been a trainer and referee for the North Rhine-Westphalian club TuS Leopoldshöhe. He has a degree as a qualified sports teacher from the German University for Physical Culture in Leipzig, whose sports club SC DHfK Leipzig was also his home club. After retraining, he has been working as a physiotherapist since 2001 . On November 1, 2008, he became state trainer for artistic gymnastics at the Lower Saxony Gymnastics Association .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
  2. ↑ Sven Tippelt is the new NTB national trainer. In: German Gymnastics League. Retrieved February 17, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Tippelt, Sven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German apparatus gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig , German Democratic Republic