Bernd Huebner

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Bernd Hübner (born May 31, 1947 in Berlin-Neukölln ) is a German former track and field athlete, marathon runner and German runner-up in the lightweight rowing eight.

rowing

In 1962, Bernd Hübner began an apprenticeship as a telecommunications technician at the Deutsche Bundespost . When the telecommunications school was looking for young people to join its rowing team, he became a member of the voluntary school sports community and laid the foundation for his sporting activities there. In 1970 he won the German vice championship title in lightweight - eighth of the Berlin rowing club from 1876 . Later, as a successful rower, he repeatedly achieved top positions in rowing regattas in the lightweight foursome and eighth of the Berlin Rowing Club as well as in a racing community with the Brandenburgia rowing club .

Marathon run

Bernd Huebner's running career began when he switched to SC Charlottenburg. Since then he has completed 103 marathons at home and abroad, including four times in Boston, three times in Honolulu, twice in New York City and in Rio de Janeiro, Miami, Los Angeles, Stockholm, Paris, Athens, Budapest, Vienna and London entered the field of competitive sports with multiple times under 2:30:00.

In May 1983, the amateur athlete crossed the finish line as the marathon winner in Berlin-Spandau. The Berlin Marathon, which was held for the first time on October 13, 1974 in Grunewald under the name " 1st Berlin People 's Marathon " with 286 participants, was successful from the start and then finished 35 times in a row. This made him the figurehead of the Berlin Marathon and earned the title of Berlin's “Marathon King” or, as a Berlin newspaper wrote, “Asphalt King”. At the Berlin Marathon in 1984, Bernd Huebner ran his best time of 2:27:04, with which he was third in the Berlin championship and Berlin champion with the team of the SCC Berlin. As a long-time department head in the Jubilee Club, he also made outstanding contributions to the Berlin Marathon. In the summer of 2006, Bernd Hübner published the book “Berlin Marathon” together with Detlef Kuhlmann. A declaration of love ”that gives a deep insight into his extraordinary life as a runner.

Running supervisor

On January 3, 1999, he started the largest private running club in Berlin with the LT Bernd Hübner. Everyone was able to run free of charge seven days a week under supervision and without any obligation and use all modern forms of training from hill and mountain running to continuous tempo running, interval exercises, easy recovery to long endurance runs in various performance groups.

As a running supervisor, Bernd Huebner advocates numerous running offers for shared experiences, for tolerance and fairness. A large community grew out of the handful of runners in the first few years: up to 1,068 runners took part in the cult runs organized as part of his running meeting. The Internet portal www.lauftreffberlin.de (www.laufsportberlin.de, which he opened in December 2004 and is now personally supervised), is one of the largest private running forums in Germany today.

organizer

His commitment to running was shown when he organized a fun run for the first time in 1990 on the Haveluferweg, which runs exclusively along the water between the “ Flensburger Löwen ” and the Glienicke Bridge . He supervised the Havellauf together with his wife Monika until 2014.

honors and awards

  • In 2004, in recognition of his sporting achievements, he was allowed to carry the burning Olympic torch on June 30, 2004 in Berlin on the way to Athens.
  • 2015 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

  • Bernd Hübner with Detlef Kuhlmann: Berlin Marathon. A declaration of love . Aachen: Meyer & Meyer 2006. 978-3-89899228-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Wilfried Hoffmann: German championship rowing in the men's lightweight eighth. Overview of medal winners (1st to 3rd place). In: www.rrk-online.de. Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08, accessed on May 29, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Huebner, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German track and field athlete, marathon runner and German runner-up in the rowing eight
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Neukölln