29. Januar 2008  
Berlin / Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

Mourning Celebration in Memory of Karl-Heinz ZSCHOCKE

TODAY, the international gymnastics community poignantly said farewell to Karl-Heinz ZSCHOCKE, a big representative of world's artistic gymnastics, in the German capital Berlin, who died January 12.
More than 120 mourners from all over the world - among them a delegation of the F.I.G, the UEG president Dimitrios Dimotropoulos (GRE), Rainer Brechtken, president of the German gymnastics federation DTB and a lot of companions of an engaged life said Good Bye to the long-time president of the Technical Committee of FIG, who died on January 12th ...
The funeral speech was spoken by the 1972 Olympic Champion Klaus Koeste ....