“Michael Timma was 62 years old”, – WRITE: Sport.ua
Michael Timm was born on November 13, 1962 in Gagen, the Federal Land of McLenburg-Priority Pomerania. Michael started actively doing boxing in his early childhood, and later trained under the guidance of the famous specialist Fritz Zdnek, known to Ukrainians in the status of personal coach of the Klitschk brothers.
Timm achieved his first serious success in the ring in 1979, when he won junior competitions in Germany. A year later, he repeated this achievement, and a year later he was the first already at the country’s adult. In 1982-1983, Michael won the title of champion of the German Democratic Republic for the second and third.
The most successful in Timma’s career was 1985, when he became a European half -weight European champion (up to 71 kg) in Budapest and won bronze at the Seoul Command Cup. In the final battle of the continental championship, Michael defeated the USSR representative, Armenian Babken Sagdarian.
Michael Timm (right) Since 1986, TIMM worked as a boxing trainer at the Shverin Sports Club and headed a junior boxing team. After the unification of Germany, since 1991, Michael held the position of head coach of the teams of Meclenburg and front of Pomerinia. In the period 1997-2012, TIMM was a trainer in the promotional company Universum Box-Promotion, in particular for two years he was a head coach, changing Zdnek’s post.
As Michael’s coach prepared Ukrainian world champions in professional boxing – Sergey Dzinziruk, Andriy Kotelnik, Vladimir Sidorenko, as well as another Ukrainian Alexander Dmitrenko, such famous fighters as Germany Yurgen Bremer, Felix Storm, Thomas Ulrich Carlos Gomes. In total, Timm has prepared five world champions among men and two among women.
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine. On the shoulders in Timma – Vladimir Sidorenko Before Michael Timm, he worked at the German Boxing Association, engaged in the selection and training of Olympic boxing soldiers.
Michael fought for a long time with cancer and eventually lost the main battle of life. The husband has a wife and two children.
“Today we have lost a wonderful person,” Jurgen Bremer wrote on his own Instagtam page, from which the world has learned the sad news.
“It was not just a coach – it was a capital letter, a mentor, a friend, a father for each of his boxer,” Andrey Kotelnik wrote. – He helped me fulfill a childhood dream – to become a world champion. But the main thing – he raised not only sportsmen but also personalities. He was always close: supported, suggested, trained with us, ran Krossi, lived the life of his students. His kindness, humanity and sincerity made us stronger not only in the ring, but also in life. I am grateful for the ten years we spent together. Thank you for everything you did for me, for boxing, for a thousand fighters who had the happiness of being your pets. ”
