Torsten Bréchôt (né Oehmigen, born 11 September 1964 in Schwerin, Bezirk Schwerin) is a retired male judoka from Germany, who competed for East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There he won the 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]
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With a birth name of Oehmigen, he took on his wife's surname in 1985. This choice is unusual (though not unheard of) in a Western country such as Germany (including the former East Germany where the marriage occurred) where usually the opposite is done, the wife taking on the husband's surname.
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