Wolfgang Bochow

Wolfgang Bochow
Wolfgang Bochow
Personal information
Country	Germany
Born	26 May 1944; Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany
Died	14 September 2017 (aged 73)
Event	Men's singles & doubles
Medal record
Men's badminton
Representing West Germany
European Championships
European Mixed Team Championships

Wolfgang Bochow (26 May 1944 – 14 September 2017)^[1] was a badminton player from West Germany who rated among the world's best in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Tall and powerful, he had one of the strongest backhands in the game.^[2]

Career

Bochow won the gold medal at the 1972 European Badminton Championships in men's singles.^[3] Between 1968 and 1976 he won eight other medals at this biennial event; three bronzes and a silver in mixed doubles, a silver and two bronzes in singles, and a bronze in men's doubles. Bochow was a men's singles semi-finalist in the 1971 All-England Championships^[4] and an All-England mixed doubles finalist with Irmgard Latz (Gerlatzka) in 1970.^[5]

He was the bronze medalist at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games in the singles discipline when badminton was played as a demonstration sport. Bochow won 15 German National titles between 1963 and 1975, 8 in men's singles, 2 in men's doubles and 5 in mixed doubles.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ Rausch, Thomas (13 February 2002). "Mit dem Hubschrauber zum Wettkampf" (in German). Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
^ Pat Davis, "The good, old days", World Badminton, June 1984, 25.
^ Pat Davis, The Guinness Book of Badminton (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. 1983) 115.
^ Tyna Barinaga, "The All-England", Badminton USA, May 1971, 14.
^ All England dillesport.dk ^{[dead link]}