BACHMANN Alexander

Germany
Taekwondo
19 Jul 1994
27
Male
 
Germany
STUTTGART
 
Germany

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
TKW Taekwondo Men +80kg 11

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Makuhari Messe Hall A
Men +80kg Round of 16
#412
GER
BACHMANN ABACHMANN Alexander
7
KAZ
ZHAPAROV RZHAPAROV Ruslan
11
PTF
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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World Championships
RankEventYearLocation
1-87kg2017Muju, KOR
Quarterfinal-87kg2019Manchester, GBR
3rd Round-87kg2015Chelyabinsk, RUS

European Championships
RankEventYearLocation
2+80kg2019Bari, ITA
3-87kg2018Kazan, RUS
Quarterfinal+87kg2021Sofia, BUL

Grand Prix Final
RankEventYearLocation
Quarterfinal+80kg2019Moscow, RUS
Quarterfinal+80kg2018Fujairah, UAE
Last 16+80kg2017Abidjan, CIV

Grand Prix
RankEventYearLocation
Quarterfinal+80kg2018Taoyuan, TPE
Quarterfinal+80kg2017London, GBR
2nd Round+80kg2019Sofia, BUL
2nd Round+80kg2019Chiba, JPN
Round 2+80kg2018Moscow, RUS
2nd Round+80kg2018Rome, ITA
Round 2+80kg2017Moscow, RUS
1st Round+80kg2019Rome, ITA
Round 1+80kg2018Manchester, GBR
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Spending time with friends, playing football, going to the cinema. (taekwondo-canada.com, 01 Jan 2018)
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Armed Forces, Athlete
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Wife Rabia
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English, German
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TKD Center Stuttgart [Germany]
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Vanja Babic [club], SRB; Georg Streif [national], GER
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His wife Rabia Bachmann [nee Gulec] competed in taekwondo at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Her brother, Tahir Gulec, also competed at the 2016 Games. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Mar 2020)
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He began the sport as a boy in Stuttgart, Germany, and started training under coach Vanja Babic at age seven. "My father took me to the TKD Center Stuttgart, where my brother was already training. My father didn't want me to hang out on the street that much. That's why I was more or less forced to do taekwondo." (dtu.de, 18 Dec 2019; taekwondo-canada.com, 01 Jan 2018)
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"In my youth, I was not very good, and I lost many tournaments, so my father said to my coach [Babic], 'It's not a good idea to spend time on him'. But my coach said, 'Wait and see, he will get better'." (dtu.de, 18 Dec 2019; taekwondo-canada.com, 01 Jan 2018)
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To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (bild.de, 07 Jan 2020)
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He trains three to four hours a day, five days a week. (bild.de, 07 Jan 2020)
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Winning gold at the 2017 World Championships in Muju, Republic of Korea. (dtu.de, 01 Jan 2019)
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Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. (dtu.de, 01 Jan 2019)
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His first coach Vanja Babic. "I owe my success to him." (bachmannalexander.com, 10 Jan 2020)
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"Respect people and don't judge." (taekwondo-canada.com, 01 Jan 2018)
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In 2019 he was voted Male Athlete of the Year in a poll organised by the German Taekwondo Federation. (insidethegames.biz, 09 Jan 2020)

General Interest

General
TAEKWONDO COUPLE
He met his wife, Rabia Gulec, at a national training camp in 2010, and the pair were married in 2018. "There is a little bit of rivalry between us, because my wife won a bronze medal at the world championships in 2013 and took part in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and always said, 'I competed at the Olympic Games and you have not'. But when I won gold at the world championships in 2017, I gained the upper hand. And of course having qualified for Tokyo makes me very proud." (bachmannalexander.com, 10 Jan 2020; frankenfernsehen.tv, 21 Jan 2019; taekwondo-canada.com, 01 Jan 2018)

FAN OF NEW RULES
He welcomed the new scoring rules introduced in 2017, which increased the points scored from a kick to the body from one to two points. "For me, it is easier to kick to the body than to the head, and the new system is two points for body. And they made the new rules with the pushing, and I think for me it is very good, I like this style, it was not hard for me to change." (taekwondo-canada.com, 01 Jan 2018)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
PTF:
Win by Final Score
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