Torsten Bréchôt (né Oehmigen, born 11 September 1964 in
Schwerin
Schwerin (; Mecklenburgisch dialect, Mecklenburgian Low German: ''Swerin''; Latin: ''Suerina'', ''Suerinum'') is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Germany, second-largest city of the northeastern States of Germany, German ...
,
Bezirk Schwerin) is a male retired
judoka
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from Germany, who competed for
East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Athletes from East Germany (German Democratic Republic) competed at the Olympic Games for the last time as an independent nation at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Following German reunification in 1990, a single German team wou ...
in
Seoul
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, 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
People from Bezirk Schwerin
German male judoka
Judoka at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic judoka for East Germany
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 people
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