26. Oktober 2009  
Gahlenz, Oederan  
Artistic Gymnastics

125 year company anniversary Quality brand in the hands of Olympics winners and world champions

World Class Grips
'Made in Germany'

... all in good hands with "Reichel"!!
With it's highbar straps, the brand "Reichel" Germany's gymnast Fabian Hambuechen for instance became world champion, the Italian highbar Olympics winner Igor Cassina got the Olympics gold. The quality products of the German saddlery  "Reichel" from Gahlenz, a district of Saxon Oederan, are worn by modern gymnastics starts, by Olympics winners, world- and european champions, national champions and many newcomer gymnasts all over the world. The protective hand leathers for the highbar, bars, uneven bars, with the quality seal "R."  from the origin country of these disciplines, are much sought after worldwide. One cannot imagine high class or amateur sports without thesm and many stars get them personally fitted and individually made. This German craft enterprice under the thoughtful management of Albrecht Reichel celebrated it's 125th anniversary and has gained a worldwide reputation for unbeaten quality. 

Albrecht REICHEL (li.) got an oversized grip with a lot of autographs of international stars of some decades, handed over by German coach Dieter Hofmann

Albrecht REICHEL is the 5th generation manager of the this saddlery of the Reichel familz in Gahlenz near Oederan in Saxony. His father Hermann Reichel, had close contact to the gymnastrs of the national team of the former GDR and compensated with his high quality articles the handleathers, which were not always available from the Western world. Since then, the company has specialised on the production of hand leather for artistic gymnastics and general gymnastics - on highest niveau. The proof of the fantastic work of this family business is the fact that many leading gymnasts of the world wear these hand leathers.

German Coach Wolfgang Hambüchen talks with the grip expert Albrecht Reichel

Mainly meant are the ex-highbar world champion Fabian Hambuechen, Olympic winner Igor Cassina (ITA) or Morgan Hamm (USA), a great part of the Swiss and Austrian and Spanish national teams, as well as the entire Italian team. 

Especially highlighted is the provision of leathers for the artistic gymnastics newcomers, particularly under the aspect of preservation of resillience.
Therefore the Boss Albrecht Reichel is present at many of the newcomer competitions and in direct contact with the trainings and practises and their exponents and is concerned with the individual special manufacture of customers requirements.
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