Yvonne Bönisch

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Yvonne Bönisch medal table

Judo

GermanyGermany Germany
Olympic games
gold 2004 Athens -57 kg
World championships
silver 2003 Osaka -57 kg
silver 2005 Cairo -57 kg
European championships
silver 2002 Maribor -57 kg
silver 2007 Belgrade -57 kg

Yvonne Bönisch (born December 29, 1980 in Ludwigsfelde ) is the most successful German judoka and current judo trainer. She has the 6th Dan .

Career as a judoka

She started judo in 1987 at JV Ludwigsfelde, and in 1993 she moved to the University Judo and Martial Arts Club Potsdam (UJKC). The year 1995 marked the beginning of her success, at that time she was first in the German U19 Championships . In 1999 and 2002 she became German champion in her weight class. In 2002 she came second at the European Championships, and in 2003 she won the silver medal at the World Championships in Osaka . At that time she had to give up in the final against the North Korean Kye Sun-hui because of an injury to her elbow.

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens she triumphed after difficult preliminary fights (including against Isabel Fernández ( Spain ), Olympic champion in Sydney 2000 and in the semifinals against Deborah Gravenstijn ( Netherlands ), third in the 2003 World Cup ) in the final of the weight class up to 57 kg reigning world champion Kye Sun-hui ( North Korea ) and thus won the first gold medal for the German team at these Olympic Games and the first ever gold medal for German women in judo at the Olympic Games.

At the Judo World Championships in Cairo in 2005 , she won the silver medal after she met Kye Sun-hui again in the final and this time lost after 38 seconds. Yvonne Bönisch won silver at the 2007 European Championships; she lost in the final with 2 coca to Isabel Fernández .

On April 15, 2008, she announced that the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing because of the continuing human rights violations in China in Tibet boycott wanting. In the competition she lost the first fight against the later Olympic champion Giulia Quintavalle (Italy) after her own attack, in the consolation round she won against the Asian champion Chischigbatyn Erdenet-Od (Mongolia) before she lost to Barbara Harel (France), who in the preliminary round had already eliminated world champion Kye. In the end, Bönisch came in ninth.

On September 11, 2009, she announced that she would end her athletic career with immediate effect.

On February 21, 2010 she was awarded the 6th Dan at the Judo Grand Prix in Düsseldorf. This makes her the youngest 6th Dan holder in Germany to date.

Judo trainer

From April 2009 to 2012 Bönisch studied at the Trainer Academy in Cologne . She successfully completed her three-year part-time training in April 2012 with a diploma as a certified trainer from the DOSB.

She has been working as a trainer at UJKC Potsdam since 2009 and has been a full-time head trainer since 2012. Since January 1, 2013, she has also been the state trainer in Brandenburg.

At the beginning of 2015 she was honored as "Trainer of the Year 2014" at the German Championships.

In October 2013 she successfully completed her bachelor's degree in sports management at the University of Applied Sciences for Sports and Management in Potsdam .

Bönisch has been the national coach in Israel since January 1, 2017.

Sporting successes

  • 2002 Vice European Champion,
  • 2003 Vice World Champion,
  • 2004 Olympic champion,
  • 2005 Vice World Champion,
  • 2007 Vice European Champion,
  • multiple German and Int. German champion,
  • multiple World Cup winner,
  • World ranking first in 2004, 2005, 2006

Awards

  • 2004 Europe's Judoka of the Year
  • 2004 Silver bay leaf
  • 2004 SportStar Award
  • 2004 honorary citizen of the city of Athens
  • 2004, 2005: Sportswoman of the Year from Brandenburg
  • 2014 Trainer of the Year

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Yvonne Bönisch is trainer of the year at trainerakademie-koeln.de, accessed on February 3, 2017
  2. ^ Judo ace Yvonne Bönisch leaves Potsdam on maz-online.de, accessed on February 3, 2017
  3. Märkische Allgemeine , December 16, 2013, p. 18