Willy Voss

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Willy Voss (born October 15, 1952 in Freiburg ) is a German Shōtōkan - Karateka (6th Dan ). In 1977 he became European Champion in Paris and Vice World Champion in Tokyo .

Life

Voss began karate in 1966 at the age of 14 in the Karate Dojo Freiburg 2, later renamed Budo School Freiburg. At the German Championships in Oberhausen in 1971, there were no weight classes yet, he took 3rd place. He was then appointed to the national team under Bernhard Götz and was a member of the national team until 1978 under the national coaches Gilbert Gruss, Wolfgang Ziebart, Hideo Ochi and Horst Handel. Voss ended his international kumite career in 1978 and his national kumite career in 1980. After completing his technical diploma , he studied business administration and economics in Bremen and worked as a karate trainer in Bremen and Hamburg. In March 2011 he founded a karate department at TSV Kirchlinteln. In June 2013 Voss moved back to his hometown Freiburg, where he founded a new karate club, Bujutsu Karate Freiburg eV

Successes at championships

In 1973 and 1975 he was German champion in the lightweight up to 68 kg and in the all category . He was a total of eight German champions and took second and third places in German championships several times. In Karate Championships he won four times in third place with the national team, and won in the individual 1973 in Valencia the bronze medal in the Allkategorie, 1975 in Ostend the silver medal in the Lightweight -68 kg, 1977 in Paris the gold medal in the welterweight - 70 kg, and at the World Championships in Tokyo the silver medal with the national team. His students won the German youth individual and team championships several times (1970, 71, 73), Hans Messmer was 1975 European junior champion and German champion in the performance class / senior middleweight division, and Wolfgang Becker was junior European runner-up. In the 1975 international match against the USA in Rüsselsheim, Voss and his students Messmer and Becker made up half of the national karate team.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DJB-Magazin 5/1971 ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 534 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chronik-karate.de
  2. ↑ chronik-karate.de , accessed September 13, 2012
  3. ↑ DJB-Magazin, Volume 15, May 1, 1975, p. 8 ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.3 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chronik-karate.de
  4. ↑ DJB-Magazin 7/1973 ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.3 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chronik-karate.de
  5. ↑ DJB-Magazin, Volume 15, July 1, 1975, p. 3 ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.4 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chronik-karate.de
  6. ↑ chronik-karate.de and chronik-karate.de
  7. ↑ DJB-Magazin 12/1971 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.1 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chronik-karate.de
  8. ↑ DJB-Magazin 12/1973 ( Memento of the original from December 24th, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.4 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chronik-karate.de
  9. ↑ DJB-Magazin 2/1975 ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.5 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chronik-karate.de
  10. ↑ DJB-Magazin 5/1975 ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.3 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chronik-karate.de
personal data
SURNAME Voss, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German karateka and martial arts trainer
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau