Andreas Hirsch (gymnast)

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Andreas Hirsch Apparatus gymnastics
Personal information
Nationality: Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic
discipline Apparatus gymnastics
Special device / s: Gymnastique aux anneaux.svg Rings
Society: SC Dynamo Berlin
Trainer: Wolfgang Netzsch
Jürgen Starost
Birthday: July 8, 1958 (62)
Place of birth: Berlin
Medal table
National medals 0 × gold 3 × silver 0 × bronze

Andreas Hirsch (born July 8, 1958 in Berlin ) is a former German gymnast and currently a trainer . He has been the head coach of the German national team since 2002.

Career

As an athlete

Hirsch started gymnastics at the training center in Berlin-Adlershof with Wolfgang Netzsch and Jürgen Starost when he was 8 years old . He later started for SC Dynamo Berlin . In 1972 he was considered one of the talents of the GDR, between 1974 and 1976 he was three times among the twelve best friendship youth competitions . Between 1976 and 1982 Hirsch competed freely at GDR gymnastics championships . He reached two fifth and one sixth place in the all-around and was three times GDR runner-up on the rings. From 1976 he was part of the GDR national gymnastics team . He played his first international match for the GDR in 1976 in Modena against Italy . Later he was also part of the squad against the Soviet Union and later in the international match against Switzerland in Cottbus .

At the World Gymnastics Championships in Strasbourg in 1978 , he was a replacement in the squad. As a result, he played several international tournaments for the GDR, including Moscow News , the Dynamo Spartakiade 1981, the Amber Cup in Riga and the International Hungarian Championships in 1982. At the Cottbus championship tournament in 1982 and 1983, he was only used by DTV out of competition .

After participating in a Moncada tournament, Hirsch brought a new element on the rings that appeared there for the first time. The element later known as the deer spider was later further developed by Stojan Deltschew and was then internationally named Deltschew . On a book published by sports historian Wolfgang Pahncke with the title apparatus gymnastics - then and now Hirsch and his element could be seen on the title cover.

As a trainer

In 1983, Hirsch began training as a trainer under Siegfried Wüstemann . Three years later he received his trainer diploma with distinction. When Rainer Hanschke took over the national coaching office from Franz Heinlein ten years later , Hirsch was given the post of national junior coach . As a result, he was able to win medals again with the junior team at the Junior European Championships from 1998.

Since 2002 he has been in charge of the gymnastics team in the German Gymnastics Federation as head coach . Hirsch achieved his first major success as a national coach at the 2007 World Gymnastics Championships with the first runner-up world title for a German gymnast in the all- around competition by Fabian Hambüchen .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Andreas Hirsch, National Trainer Artistic Gymnastics, Germany. In: gymmedia.de. Accessed August 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hirsch, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnast and gymnastics trainer
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Democratic Republic