Detlef Ultsch

Detlef Ultsch ( born November 7, 1955 in Sonneberg ) is the first German Judo World Champion.

Beginning as a teenager in Sonneberg

Detlef Ultsch grew up with seven younger siblings in a Sonneberger extended family. His judo career began in 1968 when his father, the SV Dynamo Sonnenberg filed for him to judo training. He was a very dedicated, very talented Judo students and in 1969 won first competition successes. Was advantageous in this regard that the SV Dynamo Sonnenberg had motivated trainers and several talented judoka in children and young people who challenged his ambition. After two years, the scouts had already taken him to East German level in the competitions for children 's and young people to target, without being able to assess its performance properly. In the men's training, he worked with 14 years an excellent physique, had very good reflexes and had an exceptional basic speed. But in Sonneberg he lacked training partner that it technically could have brought forward. In addition, the race observers noticed that he was a good and successful not only fight, but that he also very often broke out after defeats in tears and howled in damaged pride like a baby. He also had in his former weight class at the national level with Harald Heinke from SC Leipzig seemed a competitor in front of him, who had incomparably better training conditions and to obstruct him the way to the top in the long run.

Change to Sports Club to Berlin

After graduation in 1972, he remained in Sonneberg and learned in the VEB Kombinat the profession of farming Baumaschinisten. During this time he trained, undaunted, refined his special techniques, in particular the left and right screwed shoulder throw, was physically stronger and won in dealing with defeat, the necessary mental strength. In randori he developed his own lifting - throwing technique with which he surprised the often competitive opponent in the light middleweight. He also prepared in theory and practice very thoroughly for the examination to I. Dan, which he completed in the summer of 1974. When Dan support he received in late summer 1974, the chance for SC Dynamo Hoppe Garden to Berlin to change. Linked to this was from October 1974, the service as a sports soldier in the guard regiment Feliks Dzerzhinsky. Among the much harder training conditions at SC Dynamo Hoppe Garden, it took about a year, until the sun Berger Judo talent had passed from the light middleweight weight class and fought his in the middle - weight category in the national top.

Time as an active world-class judoka in the middleweight class

In the Olympic year 1976 he finally achieved a breakthrough in major competitions at national and international level. In this year he was DDR junior champion, third in the GDR Seniors Championships, third at the European Championships and participated as a member of the East German national team at the Olympic Games in Montreal. In 1977, he won the European Cup with the team of SC Dynamo Hoppe garden. He dominated the middleweight class in the GDR virtually unchallenged until 1984 and was six times GDR champion. In the late 1970s had become a world-class judoka Berlin under the guidance of his coach Dietmar sporting Hötger from the Sonneberg Judo talent. His athletic achievements as a player, he celebrated in Paris in 1979 and in Moscow in 1983 with the two-time victory at the World Judo Championships in the middleweight division ( to 86 kg). After he had won the bronze medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, he focused his training in 1984 entirely on the Olympic judo competitions in Los Angeles. He wanted to start one of the favorites with good chances of winning the Olympic gold medal. Because of the boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics by the GDR, however, his preparations and hopes were in vain. After he retired from international competition sport and began in his Berlin club coaching career. In 1987 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver

Successes as an active judoka in the middleweight class

Full-time judo coach

In the 1980s, Detlef Ultsch took over, who had been promoted due to his sporting success as a sports soldier at SC Dynamo Hoppe Garden officer, successively trainer tasks in the junior area of ​​the German Judo Federation of East Germany. In 1990 he was transferred to the coaching staff of DJB along with his judo teacher Dietmar Hötger and was until 2008 responsible as a full-time national coach of the junior national team. 2009 joined Detlef Ultsch succeeds Frank Wieneke as national coach of the senior national team of men.

Detlef Ultsch, whose wife is also from Sonneberg, lives in Berlin. As a member of the SC Berlin, he is connected to the sports club with which he came as Active to international success. His son Christian fights in the Judo - Bundesliga for SC Berlin and a member of the DJB National squad.

At the suggestion of the national coach Detlef Ultsch the DJB and the editors of its specialized body Judo Magazine founded the non-profit aid organization " Judoka for judoka eV " ( JFJ ), which started its work in February 2011.

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