Thomas Gerull

Thomas Gerull (born January 2, 1962 in Itzehoe ) is a former German fencer who became German champion and won an Olympic silver medal with the Degen team in 1988 for the Federal Republic of Germany.

Career

In 1981 Gerull moved from Itzehoe to FC Tauberbischofsheim . At the Fencing World Championships in Barcelona in 1985 , Gerull was part of the German team and won the world title together with Alexander Pusch , Achim Bellmann , Volker Fischer and Arnd Schmitt . In 1986 in Sofia Pusch, Fischer, Schmitt and Elmar Borrmann defended the world championship; Gerull was there as a substitute. At the fencing world championships in 1987, the German team with Pusch, Fischer, Schmitt, Borrmann and Gerull lost to the team from the Soviet Union in the final.

Schmitt, Pusch and Gerull were the three German individual starters in the epee competition at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul ; while Schmitt was Olympic champion, Gerull dropped out quite early and took 23rd place in the final bill. In the team competition, Gerull won three battles in the preliminary round against Brazil, in the quarterfinals against South Korea and 8: 7 in the semifinals against Italy. In the 8-3 defeat in the final against France, Gerull won against Philippe Riboud and won a draw against Éric Srecki . The German team Borrmann, Fischer, Gerull, Pusch and Schmitt received the silver medal and was awarded the silver laurel leaf for it.

At the fencing world championships in Denver in 1989 , the German team appeared in a different line-up. Gerull as the reigning German sword master and Elmar Borrmann were accompanied by Robert Felisiak , Stefan Hörger and Günter Jauch . The new team fought their way through to the finals, where they lost to the Italian fencers. A year later, Gerull achieved the greatest success of his career at the World Championships in Lyon , winning the individual title against the Italian Angelo Mazzoni in the final.

In 2016, the district court of Würzburg sentenced Thomas Gerull to 8 years in prison for joint fraud (investor fraud).

literature

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

Web links

• Thomas Gerull in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• World fencing championships epee
• German master fencing
• Website Thomas Gerull

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Investment fraud: BGH confirms high prison sentences in the Frankonia scandal. FONDS professional, May 31, 2017, accessed July 24, 2019 .