Stefan Dott

German judoka Stefan Dott reached the bronze medal match at both the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Olympics in the lightweight and half-middleweight classes respectively, but lost on each occasion and finished fifth. Dott burst onto the scene in 1987, winning the European Youth Championships at lightweight, and repeated the success the following year. In 1991, he was the European lightweight Champion. Three years later, in 1994, Dott won the team silver medal at the World Championships, the team gold at the Europeans, and the German national title in the half-middleweight class.

In his youth, Stefan Dott was coached by his father Karl-Heinz, and his uncle Helmut Dott. Stefan later married his teammate Raffaella Imbriani, and became a Master of Business Administration and worked in the energy field. In 2019, he became CEO of the regional energy supplier e-regio at Euskirchen near Bonn.