Torsten Bréchôt (né Oehmigen, born 11 September 1964 in
Schwerin
Schwerin (; Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch dialect, Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch Low German: ''Swerin''; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Zwierzyn''; Latin: ''Suerina'', ''Suerinum'') is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Germ ...
,
Bezirk Schwerin
The Bezirk Schwerin was a district (''Bezirk'') of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Schwerin.
History
The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, substituting the old German states. After 3 Octob ...
) is a male retired
judoka
is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyc ...
from Germany, who competed for
East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics in
Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...
, South Korea. There he won a bronze medal in the
Men's Half-Middleweight (78 kg) division after being defeated in the semi-finals by West Germany's eventual silver medalist
Frank Wieneke.
With a birth name of Oehmigen, he took on his wife's surname in 1985.
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1964 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Schwerin
Martial artists from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Sportspeople from Bezirk Schwerin
German male judoka
Judoka at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic judoka for East Germany
East German male judoka
Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany
Olympic medalists in judo
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
20th-century German sportsmen
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