Gütersloh (pulled) – The end for amateur sport, at least for November, was also a hard blow for the Box Club Gütersloh. This meant that the club had to cancel the 4th edition of the Masters Cup, which was planned for the end of November and has been in preparation for eight months.
“Over 30 participants from different countries, especially England, Denmark, the Netherlands and Switzerland had already agreed. Gütersloh has made a name for itself in the ranks of the major organizers of the international Masters Cups alongside New York and Sydney with this major event, ”said the association in a press release.
“Last year we were at the World Cup in the USA, where Kai Pieper brought the title to Gütersloh and we excited many athletes for our tournament”, adds Dr. Horst-Peter Strickrodt, chairman, press spokesman and A-trainer of BC Gütersloh. Not only that the Gütersloher had already put many hours of voluntary work and a four-figure sum into the preparation (including a comprehensive safety and hygiene concept) for the tournament with a total budget of around 40,000 euros. No, the club’s now 40 Master athletes had also been preparing for the Masters Cup for many months.
“And that since the first lockdown in the spring with individual training, with training outdoors, digital real-time training and in private gyms,” says Strickrodt, regretting the end. “So the training was certainly not in vain, but initially in vain.” Kai Pieper would also have loved to defend his title in the Gütersloh town hall. The fact that this Masters scene, which has been growing steadily for five years now, has existed at all is largely thanks to BC Gütersloh. Because the club had played a key role in ensuring that the competition ban for athletes over 35 years of age was overturned so that the Masters can fight under appropriate conditions and continue to practice their sport.
Because a boxer cannot be knocked out by precipitation, the people in charge at BC Gütersloh decided after the cancellation for 2020 to hold the tournament in Dalkestadt in 2021, just as planned for this year. “We are trying to develop Gütersloh into an international boxing town,” is how the lawyer describes the club’s ambitious goal.
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