Werner Schäfer (boxer)

Werner Schäfer (born December 29, 1952 in Ratingen ) is a former German amateur boxing champion.

biography

Schäfer grew up with three sisters and five brothers. Schäfer and his brothers were avid boxers. Werner Schäfer started his boxing career in 1966 at the Lintorf boxing club . In 1969 he moved to the boxing club TuS Gerresheim , Düsseldorf. Further club membership followed from 1971 to 1973 Ringfrei Mülheim, 1973 to 1974 Bayer 04 Leverkusen , 1974 to 2006 Ringfrei Mülheim and since 2006 pugilist Mülheim.

In 1972 he qualified in a playoff against René Weller for the Olympic Games in Munich, but was eliminated there in the first round. He did not make any further Olympic appearances, although he was part of the Olympic squad in both 1976 and 1980. Schäfer won seven German championship titles between 1971 and 1982.

Schäfer played a total of 648 boxing matches, 90 of which were international. Today he is an A-license trainer and international referee . In addition to boxing, he also works as a supervisor in disabled sports. The municipal employee lives with his partner in Mülheim an der Ruhr and has two children from his first marriage.

Sporting successes

His sporting successes were:

• 1970 (Marl) German junior flyweight champion (up to 51 kg)
• 1971 (Kiel) German bantamweight champion (up to 54 kg)
• 1972 (Munich) Olympic participant in bantamweight
• 1973 (Cologne) German bantamweight champion
• 1974 (Cuba / Havana) World Championship participant (amateurs) in bantamweight
• 1975 (Poland / Katowice) European bantamweight championship participant (amateurs)
• 1976 (Duisburg) German runner-up in the lightweight (up to 60 kg)
• 1976 Appointment to the Olympic squad for Montreal / Canada (no Olympic participation due to injury)
• 1977 (Münster) German featherweight champion (up to 57 kg)
• 1978 (Belgrade / Yugoslavia) World Championship participant (amateurs) in bantamweight
• 1979 (Cologne) German lightweight champion
• 1979 (Cologne) European championship light welterweight (up to 63.5 kg)
• 1980 Appointment to the Olympic squad for Moscow (no participation in the Olympic Games due to international boycott of the Olympic Games in Moscow , then USSR)
• 1980 (Schrießheim) German light welterweight champion
• 1982 (Munich) German lightweight champion
• 1982 (Munich) World Championship participant (amateurs) in lightweight

Web links

• Werner Schäfer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• An unforgettable experience for boxer Werner Schäfer Der Westen on July 8, 2008 (accessed on May 8, 2010)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sport complete (No. 106)