Bert Sumser

Bert Sumser (born October 3, 1913 in Finsterbergen , Thuringia ; † August 22, 2009 in Riedenburg ) was a German athletics trainer as a graduate of the Reich Academy for Physical Exercise as a certified sports teacher .

As an athlete

successes

1936 and 1937: German champions (Olympic relay) with the Stuttgarter Kickers
1937: 2nd place in the University World Games (Olympic relay), participant in the University World Games (200 m)

Top performances

100 m : 10.7 s, 1937
200 m : 21.9 s, 1935/1937
400 m : 50.2 s, 1937

As a trainer

Coaching stations

After the war he began his full-time coaching career at the CSV Marathon Krefeld , which he led three times to the German championship (1951-53) in the 4 x 400 meter relay and Hans Geister to the bronze medal at the 1952 Olympic Games. The qualified sports teacher was then head coach at Bayer 04 Leverkusen from 1954 to 1974 , where he also worked as a handball coach. Between 1956 and 1962 he was national coach for the middle distance run (including 1500-meter runner Günther Dorow) and in the men's sprint between 1964 and 1970 and from 1972 and 1974.

Other clubs were:

Sumser led Armin Hary to a world record and Olympic victory, supervised Kurt Bendlin in his decathlon world record in 1967 and trained, among others, Willi Holdorf , Claus Schiprowski , Gerhard Hennige and Heidi Schüller . He died on August 22, 2009 in a retirement home in Riedenburg, where he had spent the last years of his life.

Training methodology

Like the trainers of the prewar period, Sumser was one of those who combined high training intensity with rhythmic ability and economy of movement. He taught sprinters the ability to achieve super-fast coordination of movement during training (through mountain runs, sprints on the spot, etc.) in order to increase the information processing capacity. In the case of middle distance athletes, he made sure that they could maintain all training loads (including strength training) for a time that corresponded to the duration of the competition.

Honors

1962: DLV needle in silver
1966: DLV needle in gold
1975: Carl Diem shield
1989: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
1991: Hanns Braun Memorial Prize

Individual evidence

↑ Arnd Krüger : Sprinting ability and information processing capacity of humans, in: The teaching of athletics 30 (1979), No. 44/45 .; Arnd Krüger : Many roads lead to the Olympics. The changes in the training systems for middle and long distance runners (1850-1997), in: N. Gissel (Hrsg.): Sportliche Leistungs im Wandel. Hamburg 1998: Czwalina, pp. 41-56.

Web links

Portrait at Leichtathletik.de

personal data
SURNAME	Sumser, Bert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German athletics trainer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 3, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Finsterbergen , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH	August 22, 2009
Place of death	Riedenburg

[1] Arnd Krüger : Sprinting ability and information processing capacity of humans, in: The teaching of athletics 30 (1979), No. 44/45 .; Arnd Krüger : Many roads lead to the Olympics. The changes in the training systems for middle and long distance runners (1850-1997), in: N. Gissel (Hrsg.): Sportliche Leistungs im Wandel. Hamburg 1998: Czwalina, pp. 41-56.