Bernd Wittenburg

Bernd Wittenburg ( born April 1, 1950) is a retired German boxer. He was 1975 and 1977 Vice European Champion amateur middleweight.

Career

Bernd Wittenburg began as a teenager with boxing and was delegated due to its good performance in the national junior level for SC Dynamo Berlin. His coach there was Horst manure. He was a member of the protection and security organs of the GDR.

In 1970, he occupied the age of twenty at the "Friendship " tournament in Vidin / Bulgaria at middleweight with a points victory over Djatschuk, USSR, 1st place and in 1971 he joined the " fairness " tournament in Leipzig middleweight behind Anatoli Klimanow from the USSR and Hans -Joachim Brauske, GDR, on the 3rd place.

In 1971, he first participated in the seniors at the East German championship and reached an average weight behind Peter Urbach of the SG Motor Görlitz and Hans -Jürgen Voigt countries of SG bismuth Gera 3rd place. In 1972 he was then for the first time DDR - middleweight champion with a win in the final over Hans -Joachim Brauske, SC Chemie Halle. In the same year he also won the championship in the protection and security organs of the socialist states in Sofia at light heavyweight with a points victory in the final over Jozef Pietrzak from Poland. At the Olympics in Munich in 1972 but not Bernd Wittenburg, but Hans -Joachim Brauske was used, but had to retire there already in the second round.

Also in 1973, won Bernd Wittenburg GDR champion middleweight title. He defeated it in the finals Wolfgang Heimann from the SC Dynamo Berlin. At the European Championships 1973 in Belgrade but it was again the loser of the East German championship final, Wolfgang Heimann, preferred. This difference in Belgrade in the quarter- finals.

In 1974 Bernd Wittenburg his third GDR champion middleweight title with a win over Eckhard Hadler SC tractor from Schwerin. In the first World Cup in Havana, he was then employed in the middleweight and fought there with point victories over Eddie Johnson, Trinidad and Tobago and Alejandro Montoya, Cuba and a K0 - win id First round of Carlos Anchaute, Peru a bronze medal. In the semifinals, he had a bitter knockout loss id First round against Rufat Riskijew from the USSR to accept.

1975 and 1976, Bernd Wittenburg won with victories over Wolfgang Donath, SG Wismaut Gera and Herbert belly, TSC Berlin again the GDR middleweight championship. In 1977 he competed in this championship heavyweight and defeated fight for victory against Ottomar axis of the SC Chemie Halle ( Saale) on points (1:4).

In the international ring, he was also successful in 1975 because he fought at the European Championships this year in Katowice in the finals before, in which he, however, was defeated by the Olympic champion from 1972 Vyacheslav Lemeshev on points. Less successful was he at the Olympic Games in Montreal. He won there in the middleweight division, although his first fight over Bryan Gibson of Canada by KO id Third round, but lost in the second round against Cuban Luis Felipe Martinez just on points ( 2:3 judges' votes ), which he left and finished only 9th place.

In 1977 Bernd Wittenburg launched for the last time at an international championship. He finished it at the European Championships in Halle ( Saale) in the middleweight division again the 2nd place. In the final, he lost it against Leonid Shaposhnikov from the USSR on points ( 0:5 ).