Christoph Höhne

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Christoph Höhne (born February 12, 1941 in Borsdorf , Saxony ) is a German athlete and Olympic participant who - starting for the GDR - was one of the world's best 50 km walkers in the 1960s and 1970s . He was Olympic champion in Mexico City in 1968 and European champion twice , in 1969 and 1974.

Life

Higher Olympic victory in 1968 went down in the history of walking, as he arrived ten minutes ahead of the runner-up. One of the episodes of the Cold War in sport was his participation in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich : the evening before the competition he was anonymously denounced to the GDR team management. Allegedly he wanted to flee during the 50 km competition the following day. The GDR officials did not believe this, but Christoph Höhne went to the start, exasperated, and only finished 14th.

After his sports career, he studied photography and became a well-known sports photographer in the GDR; Among other things, he received a gold medal at the International Sports Photo Exhibition in Reus ( Spain ) in 1978 . He worked for the daily newspapers Junge Welt and Sportecho , after the end of the GDR independently.

Christoph Höhne started for SC Dynamo Berlin and trained with Max Weber , who was third in the 1958 European Championships in 50 km walking. In his playing days he was 1.71 m tall and weighed 62 kg.

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SURNAME Höhne, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Borsdorf