Thomas Endres

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Thomas Endres (born September 12, 1969 in Würzburg ) is a former German fencer who became German champion and won an Olympic silver medal with the foil team in 1988.

Life

Thomas Endres completed his Abitur in 1989 at the Matthias Grünewald High School in Tauberbischofsheim .

successes

Thomas Endres from FC Tauberbischofsheim won four German championship titles in 1988 . Both in the junior age group and in the active class, he won the individual evaluation with the foil and with the Tauberbischofsheimer team. There was also the European Cup with the club and second place at the Junior World Championship in the USA. With his successes, he also qualified for the Olympic team. At the Olympic fencing tournament in Seoul , he fought his way to the Olympic final with Matthias Behr , Mathias Gey , Ulrich Schreck and Thorsten Weidner , where the German team lost to the Soviet team. The following year, Thorsten Weidner, Mathias Gey, Thomas Endres and Alexander Koch reached the final again at the 1989 World Fencing Championships in Denver . As in the previous year, the team of the Soviet team was defeated and received the silver medal. For this success he was honored with the silver laurel leaf - like his colleagues from the German foil Olympic team.

literature

  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Seoul 1988. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ MGG TBB: fencing successes of the students / former students at the MGG. (No longer available online.) MGG TBB, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; Retrieved April 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mgg-tbb.de
personal data
SURNAME Endres, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German foil fencer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg