Udo Quellmalz

Udo "Quelle" Quellmalz (born March 8, 1967 in Leipzig ) is a German judoka .

Udo Quellmalz
Udo Quellmalz (2nd from right) with the Austrian judo team for the 2012 Olympic Summer Games
nation	Germany
birthday	March 8, 1967
place of birth	Leipzig
Career
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 1 × World championships 2 × 1 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold 1996 Atlanta up to 65 kg bronze 1992 Barcelona up to 65 kg World championships gold 1991 Barcelona up to 65 kg gold 1995 Chiba up to 65 kg silver 1989 Belgrade up to 65 kg bronze 1993 Hamilton up to 65 kg

Life

Udo Quellmalz started judo in 1975 and attended the children's and youth sports school in Leipzig from the age of 14 . From 1979 to 1990 he started for SC Leipzig and was looked after by the coaches Norbert Littkopf and Helmut Howiller . In 1990 he moved to Bavaria and became a member of the judo team of TSV Abensberg . Von Abensberg switched to MTV Ingolstadt in 1992 and trained there with Harald Heinke until 1998 . In 1984 he was European champion in the U21 age group. At the Summer Olympics in Atlanta in 1996 he won the gold medal in the half-light weight up to 65 kg. Udo Quellmalz was also world champion twice (1991 in Barcelona and 1995 in Japan). He has the 7th Dan .

Quellmalz has a university degree as a certified sports teacher from DHfK Leipzig and is also a trained wholesale and foreign trade merchant. He ended his active career in 1998 and worked for six years as sports director and national coach for the British Judo Federation. For the Austrian Judo Association (ÖJV) he was employed as a technical trainer from 2007 and from 2009 to 2012 as a national trainer. Ludwig Paischer and Sabrina Filzmoser took care of this . After the termination of his contract with the ÖJV, Quellmalz moved to Qatar for professional reasons , where he works as a sports teacher.

For his sporting successes he received the silver laurel leaf on June 23, 1993.

Sporting successes

• 1996 Olympic champion in Atlanta
• 1992 Olympic bronze in Barcelona
• 1988 Olympic participation in Seoul

• 1995 World Champion in Tokyo
• 1993 World Championship bronze in Hamilton
• 1991 world champion in Barcelona
• 1989 World Cup silver in Belgrade

• 1993 bronze at the European Championships in Athens
• 1990 silver at the European Championships in Frankfurt
• 1988 bronze at the European Championships in Pamplona

• 2 × GDR champion in the half light weight 1987 and 1988 (for the SC Leipzig)
• 4 × German champions (for TSV Abensberg and MTV Ingolstadt)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ presse.com from November 20, 2012: Judo Association is looking for a new national coach .
2. ↑ Landessportbund Niedersachsen e. V., VIBSS: The Federal President and his duties in the field of sport: .... on June 23, 1993, Federal President von Weizsäcker signed .... disabled and non-disabled athletes, namely the medal winners of the 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games the silver bay leaf from ...

literature

• Volker Kluge :  Quellmalz, Udo . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Udo Quellmalz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Successes and photos at realjudo.net (English)
• Udo Quellmalz on Judoinside (English)