Bernd Hartstein
Bernd Hartstein (born October 26, 1947 in Ostrau (Petersberg) ; † February 23, 2002 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German marksman and trainer . He won the Olympic silver medal for the GDR with the small-bore rifle in 1980 .
Hartstein started for the GST shooting club in Leipzig. He became the GDR junior champion in 1968. From 1972 until the 1980s he won the GDR championship with the small-bore rifle, both in the three-position fight and in the prone position; he also won championship titles with the air rifle.
At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , Hartstein finished ninth in the three-position battle, and at the 1979 World Cup he finished second behind Nonka Matowa from Bulgaria. He also won silver at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , where Viktor Vlasov from the Soviet Union won.
Hartstein won several medals with the GDR team, at the 1981 World Cup he won the team classification for the kneeling position together with Frank Rettkowski and Andreas Wolfram. In 1985, Hartstein won another individual medal at a world championship: In the prone position, he finished second in the prone position behind Kirill Ivanov .
The trained electrician completed a sports degree during his career. After 1990 he became a state trainer in Hesse. In March 2001 Hartstein fell ill with leukemia , and the Hessian shooting association called for a bone marrow donation. Although several hundred people got in touch, it took almost a year to find a suitable donor. Ultimately, this help came too late, Hartstein died at the beginning of 2002 in the Frankfurt University Clinic.
Awards
- 1980: Patriotic Order of Merit of the GDR in bronze
- 1980: Ernst Schneller Medal in gold
literature
- Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR. New life, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 .
- Volker Kluge: Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .
Individual evidence
- ^ GDR small-bore rifle championships
- ↑ World Championships
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 4.
- ↑ a b Beck, Hans-Joachim: Sport shooting in the GDR from the beginnings to 1990 . Ed .: Deutscher Schützenbund eV Wiesbaden 2002, p. 478 .
Web links
- Bernd Hartstein in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hartstein, Bernd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German marksman and trainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ostrau (Petersberg) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 2002 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |