Fritz Sdunek is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 professional boxing

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 trainer

Athletic trainer

An athletic trainer is a certified, health care professional who practices in the field of sports medicine. Athletic training has been recognized by the American Medical Association as an allied health care profession since 1990....

 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

Wladimir Klitschko

Wladimir Klitschko is a Ukrainian heavyweight boxer. Klitschko is the WBA , IBF, WBO Super, IBO & Ring Magazine Champion. His older brother Vitali Klitschko is the current WBC champion...

 and Vitali Klitschko

Vitali Klitschko

Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Klychko is a Ukrainian professional heavyweight boxer and the current WBC heavyweight champion. He is a leader of the political party Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform and a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Congress of the Council of Europe. He previously...

 and Dariusz Michalczewski

Dariusz Michalczewski

Dariusz Michalczewski is a retired Polish- German boxer and former Lineal, WBO, WBA, & IBF light heavyweight champion and WBO cruiserweight champion.-Early career:...

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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

Schwerin

Schwerin is the capital and second-largest city of the northern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The population, as of end of 2009, was 95,041.-History:...

, where he also worked as a trainer until 1989. There he trained among others Andreas Zülow

Andreas Zülow

Andreas Zülow was a boxer from East Germany who won a Lightweight gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games...

, who won a gold medal (lightweight) at 1988 Summer Olympics

1988 Summer Olympics

The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were an all international multi-sport events celebrated from September 17 to October 2, 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. They were the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia and the first since the 1964 Summer Olympics...

 in Seoul

Seoul

Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

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Since 1994 Sdunek is active as a trainer for a famous Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 boxing promotion organization Universum Box-Promotion.

Private life

Fritz Sdunek was born in 1947 in post-World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 Germany, on a territory which soon became East Germany. His birth place is a small town of Lüssow

Lüssow, Ostvorpommern

Lüssow is a village and a former municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the town Gützkow....

 near the Baltic sea

Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and...

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Sdunek is married and has two children - a son and a daughter. His daughter is married to Ahmet Öner, 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.

Currently trains: Vitali Klitschko Vitali Klitschko Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Klychko is a Ukrainian professional heavyweight boxer and the current WBC heavyweight champion. He is a leader of the political party Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform and a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Congress of the Council of Europe. He previously...  Zsolt Erdei Zsolt Erdei Zsolt Erdei is a Hungarian boxer in the light heavyweight division. He is the former undefeated Lineal & WBO light heavyweight champion, and WBC cruiserweight champion. Erdei is also the first Hungarian to win a world title in two weight divisions.Erdei boxed at the 2000 Summer Olympics...  Felix Sturm Felix Sturm Felix Sturm is a German boxer and current WBA middleweight Super champion of Bosniak descent. Sturm was born and raised in Leverkusen, Germany, but both of his parents were immigrants from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.- Professional career :On 27 January 2001, Sturm made his debut as a...  Ola Afolabi Ola Afolabi Ola Afolabi is a US-based British professional boxer of Nigerian heritage. He is a contender in the cruiserweight division, listed as #9 in the Ring Magazine as of March 2009 and holds a "interim World Boxing Organization title"....

Previously trained: Wladimir Klitschko Wladimir Klitschko Wladimir Klitschko is a Ukrainian heavyweight boxer. Klitschko is the WBA , IBF, WBO Super, IBO & Ring Magazine Champion. His older brother Vitali Klitschko is the current WBC champion...   Dariusz Michalczewski Dariusz Michalczewski Dariusz Michalczewski is a retired Polish- German boxer and former Lineal, WBO, WBA, & IBF light heavyweight champion and WBO cruiserweight champion.-Early career:...  Juan Carlos Gómez Juan Carlos Gomez Juan Carlos Gómez is a professional boxer. A former Cuban amateur star, he is also a former WBC Cruserweight Champion and a devout Muslim. He lives in and boxes out of Orlando, Florida, USA.-Early years and defection:...  Artur Grigorian Artur Grigorian Artur Grigorian is an Uzbek boxer of Armenian descent.- Amateur highlights :*1991 2nd place as a Lightweight at the World Championships in Sydney, Australia...  Ralf Rocchigiani Ralf Rocchigiani Ralf Rocchigiani is a boxer from Duisburg-Hamborn in Germany.He was often overlooked due to his more talented and successful younger brother, Graciano Rocchigiani. He became a professional boxer in 1983 and won the German Cruiserweight championship in 1985. He failed in two attempts to win the...  Thomas Ulrich Thomas Ulrich Thomas Ulrich is a German boxer.- Amateur career :Ulrich was the German Light Heavyweight Champion 1994...  István Kovács István Kovács István Kovács , nicknamed Ko-Ko or sometimes The Cobra is a retired Hungarian boxer. As an amateur he won the bantamweight gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and was a world champion at the 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships in flyweight and at the 1997 World Amateur Boxing Championships...  Mihai Leu Mihai Leu Mihai Leu also known as Michael Loewe is a Romanian former professional boxer who lived and fought out of Hamburg, Germany. He is the former WBO Welterweight Champion....  Károly Balzsay Károly Balzsay Károly Balzsay is a Hungarian boxer and the current WBA super middleweight champion. He is also a former WBO super middleweight champion...  Sebastian Zbik Sebastian Zbik Sebastian Zbik , is a German professional boxer and the former WBC Middleweight Champion of the world. Sebastian resides in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.-Interim WBC Championship:...  Mario Veit Mario Veit Mario Veit is a German boxer who is one of only two boxers to have beaten Juergen Braehmer....   Alexander Dimitrenko Alexander Dimitrenko Alexander Dimitrenko is a German professional heavyweight boxer. He was born on July 5, 1982 in Crimea, Ukraine. He began boxing at the age of 14 and at the age of 18 won the world junior boxing championship in the Unlimited weight division. He was immediately offered a deal by German promoter...  Denis Boytsov Denis Boytsov Denis Boytsov is a Russian heavyweight boxer .-Amateur career:Boytsov has had a decorated amateur career, including the following accomplishments:...  Khoren Gevor Khoren Gevor Khoren Gevor, born Khoren Gevorgyan is an Armenian-German middleweight boxer and former EBU Middleweight champion.-Biography:He was born on March 16, 1979, in Etchmiadzin, Armenia. Standing at 5'8 and fighting out of Hamburg, Germany. Khoren fought in 2007 against compatriot Athur Abraham and lost...  Sinan Şamil Sam Sinan Samil Sam Sinan Şamil Sam is a German born Turkish heavyweight professional boxer. As a professional boxer, Sam won the EBU and WBC International titles in the heavyweight division.- Amateur career :...  Akhmed Kotiev Grigory Drozd Grigory Drozd Grigory Drozd is a Russian professional boxer. He currently holdsthe WBO Asia Pacific cruiserweight title, PABA cruiserweight title and the WBC Asian Boxing Council cruiserweight title.-Boxing career:...  Alexander Alexeev Andreas Zülow Andreas Zülow Andreas Zülow was a boxer from East Germany who won a Lightweight gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games...

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