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Fritz Sdunek (German pronunciation:

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.

From 1994 until his death in 2014 Sdunek was active as a trainer for a famous Hamburg boxing promotion organization Universum Box-Promotion.

Private life

Fritz Sdunek was born in 1947 in post-

Sdunek was married and had two children - a son and a daughter. His daughter was married to Ahmet Öner,^[1] a German of Turkish descent, head of Hamburg professional promotional firm Arena Box-Promotion and ex-professional boxer.

Death

He died in a hospital in Hamburg on 22 December 2014, at the age of 67 following a heart attack he had suffered earlier on the island of Gran Canaria.^[2]

Boxers trained by Fritz Sdunek

Fritz Sdunek trained many boxers, both professional and amateur.

• Vitali Klitschko
• Zsolt Erdei
• Felix Sturm
• Ola Afolabi
• Wladimir Klitschko
• Dariusz Michalczewski
• Juan Carlos Gómez
• Artur Grigorian
• Ralf Rocchigiani
• Thomas Ulrich
• István Kovács
• Mihai Leu
• Károly Balzsay
• Sebastian Zbik
• Mario Veit
• Alexander Dimitrenko
• Denis Boytsov
• Khoren Gevor
• Sinan Şamil Sam
• Akhmed Kotiev
• Grigory Drozd
• Aleksandr Alekseyev
• Andreas Zülow
• Nenad Borovčanin

References

Sources

• Information about Fritz Sdunek on the web site of Universum Box-Promotion — source for the most of the facts featured in this article