There isn't really such a thing as typically German to me.
I have grown up here and got a connection to it.
Maybe I am typically German too.
When someone punches you, it's like a picture
being taken right in front of your eye.
NEWSPAPER HEADLINE: "The boy with the iron fists."
I'm 18 years old now. I was born and raised in Hamburg.
It's a good thing that I started boxing at the age of 11.
Many people I used to know don't know what to do
with their lives.
Many didn't graduate from high school.
Many take drugs, a few are in prison
or are just hanging around outside.
I know my goals and what I want to achieve.
The man in red is Peter Kadiru from Germany.
He lives in Hamburg.
Two 18-year-olds between two super-heavyweight boxers.
Left-hand success from Kadiru.
The first time I got punched really hard, I was shocked.
How can he hit you this hard in the face just like this?
Into the third and final round he goes.
It's all smiles on the face of the German contingent.
What a left hook from Kadiru!
Four-punch combination.
In the beginning, I honestly didn't like boxing at all.
The training was too hard, everything all together
was too much for me.
I thought, "I can't do this physically."
Also mentally, I wasn't as strong as I am now.
What motivates me now is boxing being the sport
where you can show your real fighting spirit
and your real character.
Through boxing, I've made a lot of very good friends.
Boxing has given me courage, made me more self-confident
and I've become more mature as a person.
No-one has ever insulted me because of the colour
of my skin at fights. In sports, only your performance counts.
Ghanaian families are always very big.
A big part lives here in Germany and another big part in Ghana.
I have two younger brothers, Jason and Joel,
and an older one Kevin.
Most of the time I was the youngest one
because I was always hanging out with my older brother.
And I discovered boxing through him.
When my mother came here, she lived in an asylum centre.
A bit later, my big brother was born.
I'll put it like this - it was very hard for her
as she lived in East Germany.
Immigrants weren't that popular there.
She had to fight through a lot in her life.
I also had a few German friends, not only foreigners!
I also noticed that German parents weren't
as strict with most things.
When my mother said,
"You gotta be home at 9 o'clock," I had to be there.
I can't speak my mum's mother tongue, Twi,
as well as her
because as a kid I didn't learn it that well.
It's always a shame when relatives come to visit us.
When people from Ghana look at me, I'm the German one.
When people from Germany see me I am the African for them.
I box for the German National Team.
I've won a lot of medals for Germany,
and therefore I also feel German.
Sometimes I do notice glances from people that are a bit older,
not so much from teenagers.
When people stare at me, it doesn't really matter to me.
They don't know me, they don't know what kind of person I am.
They don't know that I speak
the German language as well as they do.
In the last two years, I noticed that the younger boxers
ask me for advice.
Some said, "You are my role model."
This is special for me because I am relatively young.
I have no idea what would've happened to me.
Maybe I would've become a drug addict or gangster.
But what I know right now is that boxing is extremely
important for my life.
Peter Kadiru of Germany has just been crowned
as the Youth Olympic Champion in the super heavyweight division.