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Fritz Sdunek (; 18 April 1947 – 22 December 2014) was a German
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trainer and previously an
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. Regarded as one of the most successful and famous boxing trainers, he trained, among others, such world champions as Wladimir and
Vitali Klitschko Vitalii Volodymyrovych Klychko (; ; born 19 July 1971), known as Vitali Klitschko, is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer. He serves as mayor of Kyiv,Dariusz Michalczewski Dariusz Tomasz Michalczewski (born 5 May 1968) is a Polish-German professional boxer who competed from 1991 to 2005. He held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the WBA, IBF, WBO and lineal light heavyweight titles ...
. He was born in Lüssow,
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.


Sport career

Fritz Sdunek's career started in amateur boxing. Its highlight was a victory at a ''Students Championship of
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'' 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
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'', where he also worked as a trainer until 1989. There he trained among others Andreas Zülow, who won a gold medal (lightweight) at
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in
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. From 1994 until his death in 2014 Sdunek was active as a trainer for a famous
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boxing promotion organization '' Universum Box-Promotion''.


Private life

Fritz Sdunek was born in 1947 in post-
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Germany, on a territory which soon became
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. His birthplace is the village of Lüssow near the
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, today part of
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. Sdunek was married and had two children - a son and a daughter. His daughter was married to Ahmet Öner, 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
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on 22 December 2014, at the age of 67 following a heart attack he had suffered earlier on the island of
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Boxers trained by Fritz Sdunek

Fritz Sdunek trained many boxers, both professional and amateur. Previously trained: *
Vitali Klitschko Vitalii Volodymyrovych Klychko (; ; born 19 July 1971), known as Vitali Klitschko, is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer. He serves as mayor of Kyiv,Zsolt Erdei * Felix Sturm * Ola Afolabi *
Wladimir Klitschko Wladimir Klitschko; an equivalent English spelling is Vladimir Klichko . His full name in , . (born 25 March 1976) is a Ukrainian former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2017. He held multiple heavyweight world championships betwe ...
*
Dariusz Michalczewski Dariusz Tomasz Michalczewski (born 5 May 1968) is a Polish-German professional boxer who competed from 1991 to 2005. He held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the WBA, IBF, WBO and lineal light heavyweight titles ...
* Juan Carlos Gómez *
Artur Grigorian Artur Razmikovich Grigorian (; born 20 October 1967) is a retired Armenian-Uzbek professional boxer. Grigorian is a former WBO lightweight champion. He defended his title against record-breaking 17 boxers, and held it for seven years, six month ...
* Ralf Rocchigiani * Thomas Ulrich * István Kovács *
Mihai Leu Mihai Leu also known as Michael Löwe (born 13 February 1968, in Hunedoara) is a Romanian former professional boxer who competed between 1991 and 1997. He held the WBO welterweight title in 1997. Leu retired after one title defense, against Mich ...
* Károly Balzsay * Sebastian Zbik * Mario Veit * Alexander Dimitrenko * Denis Boytsov * Khoren Gevor * Sinan Şamil Sam * Akhmed Kotiev *
Grigory Drozd Grigory Anatolyevich Drozd (; born 26 August 1979) is a Russian former professional boxer. He held the World Boxing Council (WBC) cruiserweight (boxing), cruiserweight title from 2014 to 2016,Aleksandr Alekseyev * Andreas Zülow * Nenad Borovčanin


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Information about Fritz Sdunek
on the web site of '' Universum Box-Promotion'' — source for most of the facts featured in this article {{DEFAULTSORT:Sdunek, Fritz 1947 births 2014 deaths People from Vorpommern-Greifswald German male boxers East German male boxers Boxing trainers Boxers from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Recipients of the Banner of Labor