Ole Bischof

Ole Bischof ( born August 27, 1979 in Reutlingen ) is a German judoka, the Olympic champion in the weight category to 81 kg was at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Life and athletic career

Ole Bischof is the son of Gunter Bischof, a successful judoka, who was among other things, Federal Lehrwart in German Judo Federation. Ole Bischof began in 1992 at the age of 13 years to the sport of judo at TSG Reutlingen. At 18, he became German champion in the age group U21. Four years later, in 2001, the title of German Champion followed with the men. As a result, he won numerous medals at international level and in 2005 was European champion.

He began since 2001 also for TSV Abensberg in the team competitions. With Abensberg he was from 2002 to 2011 German team champion and 2006 European Cup winner. Of the fans, he was voted " most valuable fighters" in 2005 and 2008.

For the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was Ole Bischof replacement athlete for Florian Wanner. The choice in favor Wanners was extremely tight, as bishop in 2004 was the best-placed German in the world rankings while Wanner had to show the title of the reigning world champion (2003 in Osaka, Japan).

On August 12, 2008 Bishop took the Olympic Judo Tournament in Beijing, the gold medal in the light middleweight ( class to 81 kg) and was Olympic champion. In the final, he defeated the South Koreans Kim Jae- bum by a small inner crescent. Previously Bishop had the 2007 World Champion Tiago Camilo of Brazil defeated. His coach Frank Wieneke, the 1984 Olympic champion in Los Angeles ended, after this success, his work as a trainer for the German Judo Federation. New national coach and trainer of bishop since 2009 Detlef Ultsch.

In the Judo World Championships 2009 in Rotterdam, he won by early victories against Denis Unfortunately ( Luxembourg ), Jaromir Jezek (Czech Republic), Shokir Muminov (Uzbekistan ), Christoph Keller ( Switzerland ), losing to the eventual champion Ivan Nifontow (Russia) and a premature victory against Srdjan Mrvaljević (Montenegro ) the bronze medal. In Istanbul, he stood at the European Championships in 2011 again on the podium.

In February 2012 he was winner of the Tournoi de Paris and won the German home Grand Prix in Dusseldorf. Thus he secured the Olympic nomination for the London Olympics in 2012., Where he won the silver medal when he was defeated in a rematch of the Olympic final of the 2008 South Korean Kim Jae- bum in the final.

During his athletic career, Bishop completed a Diploma in Economics from the University of Cologne. On 10 September 2012, he ended his athletic career. Since October 2012, he works as a consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. In addition, he is active as a judo coach.

Offices and Awards

  • Bishop is an ambassador for the Laureus Foundation - Sport for Good.
  • Bishop was awarded by Federal President Horst Köhler awarded the Silver bay leaf.
  • He belongs to the seven judoka in the world's Athletes' Commission of the International Judo Federation (2009-2014 ).
  • He is next to Jigoro Kano the only judoka, which was used by the German Judo Federation as a template for the full year mark ( 2010).
  • To its adoption from competitive sports he received from DJB helmet and cuirass of a samurai.
Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics 2009 World Judo Championships 2011 European Judo Championships German champions Silbernes Lorbeerblatt List of Olympic medalists in judo
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