Birth Date: | 11 September 1964 |
Birth Place: | Schwerin, East Germany |
Country: | East Germany |
Weight Class: | –78 kg |
Worlds Rank: | 2 |
Worlds Year: | 1985 |
Regionals Type: | EU |
Regionals Rank: | 5 |
Regionals Year: | 1988 |
Olympics Rank: | 3 |
Olympics Year: | 1988 |
Olympics Weight: | Men's 78 kg |
Updated: | 6 June 2023 |
Torsten Bréchôt (né Oehmigen, born 11 September 1964 in Schwerin, Bezirk Schwerin) is a male retired judoka from Germany, who competed for East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, 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.[1]
With a birth name of Oehmigen, he took on his wife's surname in 1985.