Peter Müllenberg
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Born | Almelo, the Netherlands | December 30, 1987||||||||||||||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
Club | Apeldoornse Boks en Conditie Club | ||||||||||||||
Coached by | Hennie van Bemmel[2] | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Peter Müllenberg (born 30 December 1987 in Almelo) is an amateur heavyweight boxer from the Netherlands who won silver medals at the 2013 and 2015 European championships.
Career
[edit]Müllenberg competed at world championships, including at the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships (middleweight), 2013 AIBA World Boxing Championships and 2015 AIBA World Boxing Championships. He was also part of the Dutch team at the 2015 European Games in Baku.
Müllenberg won the silver medal at both the 2013 European Amateur Boxing Championships and 2015 European Amateur Boxing Championships.[3] At the 2016 European Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament in April 2016 he qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics after beating Mehmet Ünal in the semi-final.[4] He is the first Dutch boxer since 1992 who qualifies for the Summer Olympics. He was eliminated in the second bout at the Olympics.[1]
Although initially motivated to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics he later lost motivation and failed to qualify.[5]
Personal life
[edit]Müllenberg has a son Noah with his ex-partner Essja.[2] He has a son Eymen and another child with his wife Asiye, whom he married in 2017.[6][7] Since August 2009 he served with the Royal Netherlands Army.[citation needed] As of 2019 he was no longer working for the army.[6]
Müllenberg converted to Islam around 2013.[6]
In 2019 Müllenberg was convicted of threathening his ex-partner and sentenced to sixty hours community service.[6] On appeal in the same case in 2022 he was convicted of threatening his ex-partner, illegal possession of weapons and destroying furniture. His sentence was lowered to fourty hours community service.[7] In 2019 he survived two assassination attempts in which shots were fired at him.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Peter Müllenberg". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2016-10-27.
- ^ a b "Peter Müllenberg". NBColympics.com. NBC. Archived from the original on 2016-10-27.
- ^ "Bokser Müllenberg verliest EK-finale". NU (in Dutch). 15 August 2015. Archived from the original on 8 August 2016. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
- ^ "Bokser Müllenberg pakt olympisch ticket". nos.nl (in Dutch). 15 April 2016.
- ^ Blijlevens, Ralph (16 February 2021). "Almelose bokser Müllenberg gooit de handdoek in de ring: 'Ik heb niet meer de motivatie er helemaal voor te gaan'" (in Dutch). Tubantia.
- ^ a b c d e Blijlevens, Ralph (27 December 2019). "Almelose bokser overleefde liquidatiepogingen: 'Welkom in mijn wereld'" (in Dutch). Tubantia. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
- ^ a b "Almelose ex-bokser krijgt in hoger beroep 40 uur taakstraf voor bedreigen ex" (in Dutch). RTV Oost. 28 January 2022. Archived from the original on 7 February 2025.
External links
[edit]- Peter Mullenberg at AIBA.org (archived)
- Peter Müllenberg at Olympedia
- Peter Mullenberg at Olympics.com
- Peter Mullenberg at OlympicChannel.com (archived)
- Peter Mullenberg at Olympic.org (archived)
- Peter Müllenberg at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)