Klaus Beer

This article deals with the East German athlete. For the filmmaker, see Klaus Beer (Filmmaker) .

Beer 1970 at the indoor premiere of the athletes in the Berlin Dynamo sports hall

Klaus Beer (born November 14, 1942 in Liegnitz ) is a former German athlete. In the 1960s he was a successful athlete for the sports club SC Dynamo Berlin .

Beer, a trained locomotive fitter, began as a handball player in Bad Blankenburg and was won over to athletics. He first trained with Dynamo Rudolstadt and was the first youth in the GDR to jump the 2.00 m in the high jump. In the fall of 1960 he was delegated to SC Dynamo Berlin, where he concentrated on the long jump. In 1961, 1962, 1964 and 1967 to 1970 he was East German champion in the long jump , and in 1966 he was runner-up (third place in 1972). He was also several times champion in the indoor championships (1965, 1968-1970) and twice runner (1971, 1972). He won silver at both the 1970 European Cup in Stockholm and the 1970 European Indoor Championships in Vienna .

The highlight of his career was winning the silver medal in the long jump at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City . With a distance of 8.19 m he finished second behind Bob Beamon , who jumped the world record with 8.90 m in this competition .

At a height of 1.75 m, he had a competition weight of 78 kg. After his active sporting career, he worked as a trainer at SC Dynamo Berlin and also trained his children Ron and Peggy , who were also successful athletes. In 1990 he got a job as a trainer with the German Athletics Association and later trained the long jumper Kofi Amoah Prah at LAC Halensee Berlin .

Awards (selection)

• 1968: Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze

literature

• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes, medals and biographies. 2nd updated edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-538-4 , p. 31f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Athletics: intermittent fever persists . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 13, 1990, p. 25.