Alexander Thieme
Alexander Thieme (born January 13, 1954 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ; † November 29, 2016 in Jahnsdorf / Erzgeb. ) Was a German athlete who was successful as a 100-meter runner for the GDR . His greatest success was the silver medal at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montréal with the 4 x 100 meter relay of the GDR (38.66 s, together with Klaus-Dieter Kurrat , Manfred Kokot and Jörg Pfeifer ), for which he with the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze was awarded.
He won another silver medal with the 4 x 100 meter relay at the European Championships in 1978 (38.78 s, together with Manfred Kokot , Eugen Ray and Olaf Prenzler ).
At both the 1976 Olympic Games and the 1978 European Championships, he was also in the 100-meter individual race at the start, but he did not reach the finals.
Alexander Thieme belonged to the SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and trained with Peter Dost . In his playing days he was 1.86 m tall and weighed 80 kg. After his sports career , Alexander Thieme received his doctorate and habilitation at the Technical University of Karl-Marx-Stadt on gravitational heat pipe recuperators and became a senior scientific assistant. Later he worked as a building contractor in Jahnsdorf / Erzgeb. active.
Web links
- Alexander Thieme in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice , in: Freie Presse , local edition Stollberg of December 3, 2016, p. 15.
- ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).
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| SURNAME | Thieme, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete and Olympic medalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karl-Marx-Stadt , GDR |
| DATE OF DEATH | 29th November 2016 |
| Place of death | Jahnsdorf / Erzgeb. |