Fritz Sdunek
Fritz Sdunek (pronounced free-ts zdoo-neck, born April 18, 1947 in Lüssow, Germany) is a German professional boxing trainer and previously an amateur boxer. Sdunek is one of the most successful and famous boxing trainers. He trained, among others, such world champions as Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko and Dariusz Michalczewski.
Sport career
Fritz Sdunek's career started in amateur boxing. Its highlight was a victory at a Students Championship of East Germany in 1968. He won 99 of his 129 amateur fights, then decided to become a trainer.
In 1979 he graduated from the Deutsche Hochschule für Körperkultur (a university) with a diploma as a sport teacher.
Since the 1960s Sdunek was a member of a sport club Traktor Schwerin, where he also worked as a trainer until 1989. There he trained among others Andreas Zülow, who won a gold medal (lightweight) at 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
Since 1994 Sdunek is active as a trainer for a famous Hamburg boxing promotion organization Universum Box-Promotion.
Private life
Fritz Sdunek was born in 1947 in post-World War II Germany, on a territory which soon became East Germany. His birth place is a small town of Lüssow near the Baltic sea.
Sdunek is married and has two children - a son and a daughter. His daughter is married to Ahmet Öner,[1] a German of Turkish descent, head of Hamburg professional promotional firm Arena Box-Promotion and ex-professional boxer.
Boxers trained by Fritz Sdunek
Fritz Sdunek trained many boxers, both professional and amateur.
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Links and sources
- Information about Fritz Sdunek on the web site of Universum Box-Promotion — source for the most of the facts featured in this article
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