Ulf Hoffmann

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Ulf Hoffmann
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Ulf Hoffmann doing floor exercises
Ulf Hoffmann doing floor exercises

Apparatus gymnast

Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic
Olympic Summer Games
silver 1988 Team all-around
World championships
bronze 1985 Team all-around
bronze 1987 Team all-around

Ulf Hoffmann (born  September 8, 1961 in Neustrelitz ) is a former German gymnast . His home club was SC Dynamo Berlin .

He won a silver medal in the team all-round competition with the team of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul . For this he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. At the World Championships in Montreal in 1985 and in Rotterdam in 1987 , he finished third with the GDR team in the all-around competition. His greatest success in an individual discipline was winning the bronze medal in bar gymnastics at the European Championships in 1985, after his brother Lutz Hoffmann had also achieved third place at the European Championships four years earlier on the same device.

At GDR championships he won a total of three national individual titles. He won floor exercise in 1985 as well as in 1982 tied with Frank Bouchard and in 1988 tied with Holger Behrendt and Andreas Wecker on the horizontal bar .

Individual evidence

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

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