Torsten Bréchôt

Torsten Bréchôt , born Torsten Oehmigen , (born September 11, 1964 in Schwerin ) is a former German judoka . In 1988 he won the Olympic bronze medal in the light middleweight division for the GDR .

Career

Under his birth name Torsten Oehmigen, the judoka won the 1981 Spartakiad . In 1983 he was the European Junior Light Middleweight Champion, the class up to 78 kilograms. After taking his wife's name, Torsten Bréchôt won his first GDR championship in 1985. At the Judo World Championships in 1985 in Seoul, he was only defeated in the final against the Japanese Nobutoshi Hikage . After that he had to interrupt his career because of various injuries. It wasn't until 1988 that the judoka, who trained under Dietmar Hötger at SC Dynamo Hoppegarten , returned to the spotlight when he won his second GDR championship title. At the 1988 Olympicsin Seoul he received the bronze medal after he had lost in the fight for the final against the West German Frank Wieneke with a coca rating. For winning the bronze medal, he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

In 1989, Bréchôt tried to move up to the 86 kilogram class and won the Swedish Open. After he was third in this weight class at the GDR championships in 1990, he ended his career. In 1991 he tried a comeback in the all-German judo Bundesliga at JC Rüsselsheim and in 1992 took third place at the German championships in the 78 kilogram class.

Torsten Bréchôt is a physiotherapist and judo trainer at the Hohenschönhauser Judo Temple in Berlin. Torsten Bréchôt holds the 4th Dan.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4

Web links

• Torsten Bréchôt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Torsten Bréchôt on Judoinside (English)