Armin Hary

Armin Hary
nation	Germany
birthday	March 22, 1937
place of birth	Quiver
size	182 cm
Weight	71 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	10.0 s ( 100 m )
society	FSV Frankfurt
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 0 × 0 × European championships 2 × 0 × 0 × German championships 2 × 2 × 1 × German indoor championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Rome 1960 100 m gold Rome 1960 4 × 100 m  European championships gold Stockholm 1958 100 m gold Stockholm 1958 4 × 100 m  German championships silver Düsseldorf 1957 100 m silver Hanover 1958 100 m bronze Hanover 1958 4 × 100 m gold Berlin 1960 100 m gold Berlin 1960 200 m  German indoor championships gold Berlin 1959 70 m

4 × 100 m relay Olympics 1960

Armin Erich Hary (born March 22, 1937 in Quiigart ) is a former German athlete . In his career he was two times Olympic and European champions . In 1958, he was the first sprinter to manage the 100 meters in hand-stopped 10.0 seconds (on the cinder track ). This makes Hary the last German as well as the last European to hold the 100-meter world record . In 2011 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German Sports .

Life

Final run 100 m Olympic Games 1960

The trained precision mechanic and son of a miner played in his youth football and moved at the age of 16 years for athletics . His parents initially did not support his sporting activities and would have preferred to see him as a violin virtuoso. He started out as a decathlete at SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken and 1. FC Saarbrücken and changed discipline and club in 1957: As a sprinter at Bayer 04 Leverkusen , whose coach Bert Sumser brought him to the Rhine, he became German runner-up in the 100th in the same year -Meter run (10.5 s), just behind Manfred Germar , who overtook him on the finish line after Hary thought he was the winner and did not run the last few meters. He won his first international title in 1958 at the European Championships in Stockholm . He won both the 100 meter run and the 4 x 100 meter relay together with Manfred Germar, Heinz Fütterer and Walter Mahlendorf .

On September 6, 1958 in Friedrichshafen , Hary, who has meanwhile switched to FSV Frankfurt , ran the 100 meters in hand-stopped 10.0 seconds for the first time, a tenth of a second faster than the world record. However, its duration was not recognized, as the railway had eleven instead of the permitted ten centimeters gradient. In the same year, Hary was banned by the German Athletics Association (DLV) for several months because of incorrect expense reports (train journey instead of car, it was about 70  DM ).

At the athletics meeting in Zurich's Letzigrund on June 21, 1960, he finally achieved the official sensation: In the repeat run after an alleged false start, he ran the 100 meters in a new world record time of 10.0 s - on a cinder track and electronically stopped at 10.25 s . The functionaries of the DLV had tried to torpedo his participation, because they wanted to "spare" him for Rome. He received his confirmation of participation by telephone from the Swiss organizers, and he only reached the competition a few hours before the start with a transport plane, as all official flights were booked out.

In the same year, Hary won gold with a time of 10.2 s after three false starts, whereby he caused one himself, over the 100 meters at the Olympic Games in Rome (quote from Armin Hary in an interview in 2007: “ Rome were my games - me wanted revenge for everything they did to me. "). In addition, he first came second with the 4 x 100 meter relay ( Bernd Cullmann , Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf , Martin Lauer ). The first US relay to arrive was disqualified 15 minutes later for an incorrect move, and Hary received his second Olympic gold.

A year later, his career was over. After repeated quarrels about an expense report and a knee injury from a car accident, he ended his career in 1961, frustrated by the behavior of the officials, and entered the real estate business. As a part-time job, he writes comments in the Welt am Sonntag . In 1981 he was sentenced in the first instance to two years' imprisonment without parole for aiding and abetting infidelity at the expense of the Catholic Church . However, this judgment did not become final . Hary was finally sentenced in the second instance to a prison term of one and a half years, the execution of which was suspended on probation, and a fine of 20,000 DM.

Hary is involved in a project founded in 2004 to promote young sporting talent from socially disadvantaged backgrounds or other problem areas. For this initiative he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 2008. In November 2018, Hary announced that its extensive trophy collection was up for sale.

Sporting successes

Award ceremony 100 m Olympia 1960

• 1957: German runner-up 100 m
• 1958: German runner-up 100 m
• 1958: European championship gold 100 m and 4 × 100 m relay
• 1959: German indoor champion 70 m
• 1960: German champion 100 m and 200 m
• 1960: world record over 100 m (10.0 s)
• 1960: Olympic gold in Rome 100 m and 4 × 100 m relay

Awards

• 2000 runner of the century (Germany)
• 2000 athlete of the century (Saarland)
• 2008 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

literature

• Armin Hary: 10.0 , Copress, Munich 1960.
• Knut Teske : Runner of the Century. The breathtaking career of Armin Hary , Verl. Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-574-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Armin Hary in the catalog of the German National Library
• Armin Hary in the Olympedia.org database(English)
• Armin Hary in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Biography from aha-f.de
• Portrait, dates and biography of Armin Hary in the Hall of Fame of German Sports

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , Federal Gazette 2008 (No. 179, pp. 4209–4211)
2. ^ "The great Olympia Lexicon", Sport-Bild from June 19, 1996, p. 40.
3. ↑ Die Zeit, April 3, 1981 No. 15 ( Memento of January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Handelsblatt, March 23, 2007
5. ↑ The quick starter . Jörg Hahn, faz.net , March 22, 2012.
6. ↑ Descriptive text of Fig. 5 for Der Usain Bolt from 1960 , Michael Reinsch, faz.net , July 27, 2010.
7. ↑ Armin Hary sells trophies: "The whole thing upsets me immensely". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. November 17, 2018, accessed November 17, 2018 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b} My gold for Germany
9. ↑ Honorary Cross of Merit for Armin Hary