Andreas Tews
{{short description|East German boxer}}
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| caption = Andreas Tews, Berlin, 1990
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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|11 September 1968}}
| birth_place = Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, East Germany
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{{MedalSport | Men's Boxing}}
{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}
{{MedalCountry | {{GDR}} }}
{{MedalSilver| 1988 Seoul | Flyweight}}
{{MedalCountry | {{GER}} }}
{{MedalGold| 1992 Barcelona | Featherweight}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Amateur Championships}}
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{{MedalGold| 1987 Turin | Flyweight}}
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{{MedalBronze| 1991 Gothenburg | Bantamweight}}
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Andreas Tews (born 11 September 1968) is a German former amateur boxer. Tews won the Flyweight Silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the Featherweight Gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
His first international success came with his second place in the Flyweight class at the 1986 European Junior Championships held in Copenhagen. Just one year after that he won the European Senior Championship at Turin. In the 1991 European Championships at Gothenburg he came in third.
Tews never boxed professionally and is currently a trainer at Gymnasium Rahlstedt in Hamburg, Germany.
Olympic results
- 1988 won the silver medal representing East Germany as a Flyweight at the Seoul Olympics:
- Defeated Wang Weiping (China) PTS (5-0)
- Defeated Janos Varadi (Hungary) PTS (5-0)
- Defeated Benaissa Abed (Algeria) PTS (5-0)
- Defeated Mario Gonzalez (Mexico) PTS (5-0)
- Lost to Kim Kwang-Sun (South Korea) PTS (1-4)
- 1992 won the gold medal representing Germany as a Featherweight at the Barcelona Olympics:
- Defeated Kirkor Kirkorov (Bulgaria) PTS (9-5)
- Defeated Djamel Lifa (France) PTS (9-4)
- Defeated Park Duk-Kyu (South Korea) PTS (17-7)
- Defeated Hocine Soltani (Algeria) PTS (11-1)
- Defeated Faustino Reyes (Spain) PTS (16-7)
Other accomplishments
- East German Champion 1985/1987/1989 [http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Nationalchamps/Germany1949_1989GDR.html], German Champion 1991/1992 [http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Nationalchamps/Germany1990_2000.html]
- 2nd place at Junior European Championships 1986
- European Champion at the 1987 European Amateur Boxing Championships
- Bronze medal at the 1991 European Amateur Boxing Championships
References
- {{cite sports-reference |url= https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/te/andreas-tews-1.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200417223253/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/te/andreas-tews-1.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= 2020-04-17}}
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Category:Boxers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Category:Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic boxers for East Germany
Category:East German male boxers
Category:Olympic boxers for Germany
Category:Olympic gold medalists for Germany
Category:Olympic silver medalists for East Germany
Category:Sportspeople from Rostock
Category:Boxers from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Category:Olympic medalists in boxing
Category:Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Category:Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
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