Tim Gerresheim

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Timothäus "Tim" Gerresheim (born February 24, 1939 in Berlin ) is a former German fencer who was successful with the foil .

Life

Tim Gerresheim was the son of the fencing master Otto Gerresheim, who came to Hamburg from Berlin in 1951 and founded the Hamburg fencing club Rothenbaum in 1954. In 1959 Tim Gerresheim won the German championship with the foil for the first time , in the same year he finished second in the Junior World Championship. In the adult class he was defeated with the German team at the fencing world championships in Budapest in 1959 only in the final against the Soviet team. The following year, he was eliminated from the individual competition in the third round of the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. With the team he reached the quarter-finals against France. There it was a draw with 8: 8 after 16 battles and Tim Gerresheim had to play in the decisive battle against the four-time Olympic champion Christian d'Oriola . Gerresheim won this battle with 5-0 goals. In the semifinals, the German fencers were defeated by the later Olympic champions from the Soviet Union, against the Hungarians the Germans won the battle for bronze with 9: 5 points, with Gerresheim winning three of his four battles.

For this he received the silver bay leaf on December 9, 1960.

In 1962 Gerresheim won his second German championship title, in 1963 he became international champion in Vienna. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, Gerresheim took sixth place in the individual competition, with the team he reached fifth place. In the following years Gerresheim was absent from most tournaments due to various injuries. With a second place behind Friedrich Wessel in the German championship in 1968, he once again made it into the German Olympic team. At the Olympic tournament in Mexico City , Gerresheim dropped out early in the individual competition, and with the team he reached sixth place.

Tim Gerresheim is a qualified sports teacher and fencing master. Together with his wife he runs his own fencing school in Hamburg and also trains young actors in scenic fencing at several drama schools.

literature

  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Mexico 1968. Our team , Frankfurt am Main 1968

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the sport of fencing in Hamburg ( Memento from February 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 24, 2009)
  2. ^ Information given to the Bundestag by the Federal Government on September 29, 1973 - Printed matter 7/1040 - Annex 3, pages 54 ff., Here page 58
personal data
SURNAME Gerresheim, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerresheim, Timothäus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fencer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin