Alwin Wagner

Alwin Wagner
Alwin Wagner (1985)
nation	Germany
birthday	11th August 1950 (age 70)
place of birth	Melsungen ,  Germany
job	police officer
Career
society	USC Mainz PSV Green-White Kassel MT Melsungen
Medal table
German championships 5 × 1 × 4 ×
German championships bronze Hanover 1974 Discus throw bronze Hamburg 1977 Discus throw silver Stuttgart 1979 Discus throw gold Gelsenkirchen 1981 Discus throw gold Munich 1982 Discus throw gold Bremen 1983 Discus throw gold Düsseldorf 1984 Discus throw gold Stuttgart 1985 Discus throw bronze Berlin 1986 Discus throw bronze Frankfurt 1988 Discus throw
last change: May 24, 2016

Alwin Wagner (born August 11, 1950 in Melsungen ) is a German discus thrower and sling ball thrower . In the sling ball he set the world record still valid today on August 21, 1982 with a width of 86.92 m and was fifteen times German champion and six times German gymnastics festival winner in this discipline.

career

Today's police officer a. D. began his athletic career with ball sports. He first played football, then handball and switched to athletics in 1965. Two years later he was appointed to the federal squad. At the age of 16, he still threw the 2 kg target over 42 meters. In 1971 he was behind Ralf Reichenbach with 54.16 m German runner-up in the juniors (U22). In 1973 he threw the discus over the 60-meter mark for the first time in a competition. In 1976 he was not nominated by the association for the Olympic Games in Montreal . With 61.88 m, Wagner exceeded the IAAF standard of 61.00 m, but did not meet the standard of at least 64 m required by the German Athletics Association. There was no chance of a final battle and no chance of a medal for the Olympic Games. 1978 Alwin Wagner took part in the European Athletics Championships in Prague and took 6th place. At the 1979 European Cup finals in Turin, Wagner secured second place behind Wolfgang Schmidt (GDR). From 1981 to 1985, the athlete , who started for USC Mainz , was German champion in discus throw five times in a row. In 1982 he took part in the European Championships in Athens and started a year later at the first World Championships in Helsinki. At the 1983 European Cup final in London, Wagner finished second behind Jürgen Schult (GDR, 64.96 m) with 64.14 m. At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, he crowned his athletic achievements with sixth place. In 1986 Alwin Wagner also took part in the European Championships in Stuttgart . On July 1, 1987, he reached his personal best in the discus throw with 67.80 m.

Alwin Wagner was also active as a competitive athlete after his time. He started for MT Melsungen in the senior classes and took over the office of sporting director. In 2005 Alwin Wagner became Senior World Champion in Discus Throwing in San Sebastian and in 2006 he won the title of Senior European Champion in Poznan . In March 2007, Alwin Wagner won the Senior Indoor Championships in Helsinki , where the discus throw was held in a hall for the first time.

Since 1995 Alwin Wagner has given anti-doping lectures at the upper levels of grammar schools in order to educate students about the so-called "Golden Decade" of unrestrained doping from 1978 to 1988 and to warn them against taking performance-enhancing substances.

References to West German doping practices

Alwin Wagner already pointed out doping by German athletes during his active time .

In November 1981 he was quoted in the Bild newspaper: "We have to swallow more and more pills to meet the standard for international championships".

At the end of 1990, Wagner brought the German Athletics Association into distress when he gave comprehensive testimony on doping practice and passed this on in writing to the public prosecutor. This resulted in u. a. found out that in the Mooswald Clinic in Freiburg was swallowed, injected, cheated and covered up.

Private

Wagner is an avowed Catholic Christian, father of four children and lives with his wife in Melsungen.

Trivia

In 2000, Wagner took second place behind cross-country skier Jochen Behle in the readers' survey (Hessian) “athletes of the century” by the Hessisch / Niedersächsische Allgemeine Zeitung (HNA) . In 2005 he was voted Police Sportsman of the Year . After his active career, Wagner was a coach for shot put and discus throwing in the Hessian Athletics Association (HLV) for sixteen years . As a functionary, he was a competition warden and deputy chairman of the HLV for many years. He was appointed as referee for throwing and thrusting for the 2001 European Cup final and a year later he was appointed referee for the discus final for men and women at the European Championships in Munich.

successes

• Five-time German champion in a discus throw (1981–1985)
• Participant in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles
• Participant in the European Championships in Prague ( 1978 ), Athens ( 1982 ) and Stuttgart ( 1986 )
• World and European champions in senior discus throw
• World record holder in the throwing ball with 86.92 m
• 25 × German senior champion in the discus throw
• 15 × German champion in the throwing ball
• 06 × German gymnastics festival winner in throwing ball

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

swell

1. ↑ Johannes Knuth his biggest litter , Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 9, 2017, p. 3
2. ^ Andreas Singler, Gerhard Treutlein: Doping in top sport. Sports science analyzes of national and international performance development . Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89899-192-6 , p. 157
3. ↑ Ex-discus thrower Wagner on doping "Anabolic steroids three times a day", SPIEGEL Online, April 4, 2017
4. ^ "The Cocktail Party of the West" SPIEGEL Online, April 4, 2017
5. ↑ Lars Spannagel: Tolerated and covered . In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 27, 2017
6. ↑ Johannes Knuth his biggest litter Süddeutsche Zeitung November 9, 2017 p.3
7. ↑ Matthias Lohr: Discus throwing legend Alwin Wagner: "I was afraid that we would not survive the accident". In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . Verlag Dierichs GmbH & Co KG, March 1, 2017, accessed on May 5, 2017 .