German Athletics Championships 1955
55th German Athletics Championships | |
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city | Frankfurt am Main / 2 other locations |
Stadion | Forest stadium |
Competitions | 39 + 4 at other venues |
opening | 4th August 1955 |
Final day | August 7, 1955 |
timeline | |
← Hamburg 1954 | Berlin 1956 → |
The 55th German Athletics Championships were held from August 4th to 7th, 1955 in the Waldstadion in Frankfurt . In contrast to the usual practice, the championships in almost all disciplines took place as part of this event, including the all-around competitions and the marathon.
There were only two exceptions with championship competitions in other locations on other dates:
- Forest run (men) - Schwaig near Nuremberg , April 10th on a route length with individual and team evaluation
- 50 km walk (men) - Dortmund , September 25th with individual and team classification
There was a change to the competition offer for walking : Already in 1933 and 1934 there was a shorter distance in street walking in addition to the distance of 50 km, the competition of 20 km. Subsequently, this discipline was replaced several times at the championships held between 1942 and 1953 by a walking competition over 25 km. Now they have returned to the 20 km route that was customary internationally after 1952 . The 10,000 m track, however, which had been on the program from 1938 to 1954, was canceled and only returned to the championship program in 2000 .
The Karlsruher SC set the existing German club record in the 4 × 100 m relay with 40.8 seconds in the line-up of Lothar Knörzer , Carl Kaufmann , Heinz Fütterer and Hans-Peter Meyer .
The following overviews summarize the medal winners. A more detailed overview with the first six in each of the individual disciplines can be found under the link German Athletics Championships 1955 / Results .
Medalists men
Medalists women
literature
- Fritz Steinmetz: 75 years of the German Athletics Championships: (1898–1972) . 1st edition. Bartels and Wernitz, Berlin / Munich / Frankfurt (M.) 1973, ISBN 3-87039-956-2 (A contribution to the history of athletics).
Web links
- German athletics champions (until 2003) on sport-komplett.de
- Film clips u. a. from the German Athletics Championships 1955 on filmothek.bundesarchiv.de, range: 8:11 min to 10:03 min
- Review of the marathon at the German Athletics Championships 1955 on the Frankfurt Marathon website
- Critical preliminary report on the German Forest Run Championships 1955 on the zeit.de website
- Results of the German Marathon Championships in Frankfurt am Main on August 6th on the website Marathonspiegel
- Results of the German Marathon Championships team ranking in Frankfurt am Main on August 6th on the website Marathonspiegel
Individual references and notes
- ↑ Venues of the German Athletics Championships since 1946 (PDF; 47 kB)
- ↑ German records in athletics on the website sport-komplett.de
- ↑ Disciplines of men's pentathlon: long jump, javelin throw, 200 m, discus throw, 1500 m