German Athletics Championships 1970

70th German Athletics Championships

city	Berlin / 4 other locations
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Competitions	34 + 21 at other venues
opening	7th August 1970
Final day	August 9, 1970
timeline
← Düsseldorf 1969	Stuttgart 1971 →

The 70th German Athletics Championships were held from August 7th to 9th, 1970 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium.

Instead of the long relay over 3 x 1000 meters that had previously been run by the men , the relay over 4 x 800 meters and 4 x 1500 meters was held. Another change to the competition program was made in the forest run : Here a second route length was introduced for the women, so that there was now a medium and a long distance with individual and team ratings, as with the men. However, this second route length for women was withdrawn again in 2003.

There has been a major change in the number of club memberships, since from 1970 the formation of athletics communities (LG) as a merger of several clubs was allowed by the DLV .

There was particularly good performance in the women's competitions with some German and German record performances.

German records:

400 meters - Christel Frese 52.6 s
Long jump - Heide Rosendahl 6.72 m (record set)

Federal German records:

100 meters - Ingrid Mickler-Becker 11.3 s (record set)
1500 meters - Ellen Tittel 4: 13.1 min
100 m hurdles - Margit Bach with 13.1 s (record set)
High jump - Karen Mack 1.82 m
Pentathlon - Heide Rosendahl 5399 points (1969 rating) / 4749 points (1980 rating)

As usual, further championship titles were awarded in various other locations, named in the following list in chronological order.

Forest runs - Dülmen , April 19 with individual / team ratings for women and men on two route lengths each (medium / long distance)
50 km walk (men) - Eschborn , July 19 with individual and team classification
Marathon (men) - Passau , August 29th with individual and team evaluation
Long seasons , women: 3 × 800 m / Men's 4 x 800m and 4 x 1500 m and
more battles (women: Pentathlon ) / (men: five and decathlon ) - Stuttgart , 12-13. September with individual and team ratings

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 1970 / Results .

Medalists men

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m	Günther Nickel ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	10.4 s	Gerhard Wucherer ( TSV 1860 Munich )	10.4 s	Gert Metz ( USC Mainz )	10.4 s
200 m	Jochen Eigenherr ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	20.7 s	Franz-Peter Hofmeister ( Youth 07 Bergheim )	20.8 s	Edgar Krüger ( LG ESV / PSV Essen )	21.1 s
400 m	Thomas Jordan ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	45.6 s	Hermann Köhler ( Germania Rhoden )	46.0 s	Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske ( LG North Berlin )	46.0 s
800 m	Franz-Josef Kemper ( LG Ratio Münster )	1: 45.9 min	Walter Adams ( SV Salamander Kornwestheim )	1: 46.6 min	Reiner Föhrenbach ( ASC Darmstadt )	1: 46.8 min
1500 m	Jürgen May ( SV Schwalbe Hanau )	3: 42.4 min	Erk Maasch ( Hamburger SV )	3: 45.9 min	Frank Thomé ( ASV Cologne )	3: 45.9 min
5000 m	Harald Norpoth ( LG Ratio Münster )	13: 53.6 min	Ulrich Brugger ( Stuttgart Kickers )	14: 12.8 min	Berthold Werthmann ( SuS 09 Dinslaken )	14: 13.6 min
10,000 m	Manfred Letzerich ( LG Wiesbaden )	28: 54.8 min	Jens Wollenberg ( LAC source Fürth )	29: 09.4 min	Hans Munzinger ( TSV Burgau )	29: 12.0 min
marathon	Hans Hellbach ( ASC Darmstadt )	2: 24: 41.8 h	Jürgen Bernhard ( SCC Berlin )	2: 25: 22.4 h	Alfons Ida ( VfL Wolfsburg )	2: 28: 30.0 h
Marathon , team competition	ASC Darmstadt ( Hans Hellbach , Lutz Philipp , Walter Weba )	7: 23: 53.8 h	SCC Berlin ( Jürgen Bernhardt , Klaus Addicks , Hubert Riesner )	7:34:30 h	Prussia Krefeld ( Karl-Heinz Sievers , Jürgen Bergmann , Hermann Tonnemann )	7:46:42 h
110 m hurdles	Günther Nickel ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	13.7 s	Werner Trzmiel ( ASC Darmstadt )	14.0 s	Manfred Schumann ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	14.2 s
400 m hurdles	Werner Reibert ( USC Heidelberg )	50.0 s	Gerhard Hennige ( ASC Darmstadt )	50.2 s	Manfred Klaußner ( Kickers Offenbach )	50.3 s
3000 m obstacle	Rolf Burscheid ( VfL Wolfsburg )	8: 37.4 min	Willi Maier ( TSV Genkingen )	8: 38.6 min	Hans-Dieter Schulten ( TV Wattenscheid 01 )	8: 39.2 min
4 × 100 m relay	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen ( Günther Nickel , Benno Knobloch , Manfred Ommer , Jochen Eigenherr )	39.6 s	SV Salamander Kornwestheim ( Karl-Peter Schmidtke , Kai Florian Schwarz , Walter Linder , Dieter Jurkschat )	39.7 s	SCC Berlin ( Peter Mahlow , Lothar Drygalsky , Dickhut, Harald Leidicke )	39.9 s
4 × 400 m relay	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen ( Martin Jellinghaus , Roland Roßmeißl , Ulrich Reich , Thomas Jordan )	3: 04.8 min	VfB Stuttgart ( Dieter Hübner , Ulrich Strohhäcker , Helmar Müller , Herbert Moser )	3: 06.8 min	VfL Wolfsburg ( Klaus Achilles , Klaus Heinrich , Klewin, Hans-Dieter Löber )	3: 09.3 min
4 × 800 m relay	SV Salamander Kornwestheim ( Günter Mayer , Hartmut Potschka , Manfred Henne , Walter Adams )	7: 21.4 min	ASC Darmstadt ( Werner Schumann , Gerhard Hennige , Raimund Kastner , Reiner Föhrenbach )	7: 22.8 min	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen ( Jürgen Jaenisch , Wolfgang Strittmatter , Franz-Josef Becker , Arnd Krüger )	7: 27.2 min
4 × 1500 m relay	LG Ratio Münster ( Hans-Gerd Schoofs , Urs Lufft , Harald Norpoth , Franz-Josef Kemper )	15: 14.4 min	LAC source Fürth ( Karl-Heinz Betz , Jens Wollenberg , Hubert Stecher , Heinz Mörtl )	15: 15.8 min	ASV Cologne ( Dirk Stratmann , Eilmes. Pröpper, Frank Thomé )	15: 17.8 min
20 km walk	Bernhard Nermerich ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	1: 29: 52.0 h	Horst-Rüdiger Magnor ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	1: 35: 39.0 h	Gerd Schuth ( Hanover 96 )	1: 35: 50.4 h
20 km walk , team competition	Eintracht Frankfurt ( Bernhard Nermerich , Horst-Rüdiger Magnor , Wilfried Wesch )	4: 48: 58.6 h	1. FC Nürnberg ( Bernd Kannenberg , Karl-Heinz Adam , Gerhard Schuster )	5:09:10.4 h	LG Salzgitter ( Heinz Mayr , Gerhard Weidner , Werner Hupfeld )	5: 10: 26.6 h
50 km of walking	Peter Schuster ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	4:06:28.6 h	Herbert Meier ( LAC source Fürth )	4:08:35.2 h	Bernhard Nermerich ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	4:09:10.2 h
50 km walking , team competition	Eintracht Frankfurt ( Peter Schuster , Bernhard Nermerich , Horst-Rüdiger Magnor )	12: 26: 05,0 h	Post-SV Tübingen ( Siegfried Wegiel , Alfred Daske , Manfred Schäfer )	14: 06: 29.2 h	1. FC Nürnberg ( Kurt Vorbrugg , Karl-Heinz Adam , Gerhard Schuster )	14: 11: 26.8 h
high jump	Hermann Magerl ( TSV 1860 Munich )	2.12 m	Lothar Doster ( TG Heilbronn )	2.12 m	Ingomar Sieghart ( TSV 1860 Munich )	2.12 m
Pole vault	Volker Ohl ( SG Arheilgen )	5.10 m	Hans-Jürgen Ziegler ( KSV Hessen Kassel )	5.10 m	Heinfried Engel ( USC Mainz )	5.00 m
Long jump	Josef Schwarz ( TSV 1860 Munich )	8.02 m	Andreas Gloerfeld ( ASV Cologne )	7.66 m	Hans Baumgartner ( TV Heppenheim )	7.65 m
Triple jump	Michael Sauer ( USC Mainz )	16.47 m	Harald Strutz ( USC Mainz )	16.21 m	Richard Kick ( LG Regensburg )	15.70 m
Shot put	Heinfried Birlenbach ( LG Siegen )	19.84 m	Traugott Glöckler ( USC Heidelberg )	18.47 m	Ferdinand Schladen ( LC Bonn )	18.43 m
Discus throw	Dirk Wippermann ( Rot-Weiß Oberhausen )	60.92 m	Hein-Direck New ( USC Mainz )	60.70 m	Klaus-Peter Hennig ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	59.14 m
Hammer throw	Uwe Beyer ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	72.04 m	Hans Fahsl ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	69.96 m	Edwin Klein ( USC Mainz )	69.18 m
Javelin throw	Klaus Wolfermann ( SV Gendorf )	81.76 m	Peter Mörbel ( USC Mainz )	77.66 m	Horst Timmer ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	76.12 m
Pentathlon , 1965 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Erich Klamma ( TV Wattenscheid 01 )	3657 P (3542 P)	Helmut Leitner ( USC Munich )	3605 P (3715 P)	Wolfgang Tilly ( LG ESV / PSV Essen )	3591 P (3731 P)
Pentathlon , team competition	SV Salamander Kornwestheim ( Gerhard Fichtner , Wolfgang Seeger , Wilhelm Mack )	10,502 P	LG ESV / PSV Essen ( Wolfgang Tilly , Rainer Wessiepe , Mack)	10.113 P.	KSV Holstein Kiel (Kock, Vogt, Hausmann)	9,881 P
Decathlon , 1965 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Horst Beyer ( USC Mainz )	7894 P (7745 P)	Günter Grube ( Gut Heil Lübeck 1876 )	7625 P (7492 P)	Bernd Knut ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	7594 P (7430 P)
Decathlon , team competition	USC Mainz ( Horst Beyer , Wolfgang Linkmann , Herbert Swoboda )	22,737 p.	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen ( Bernd Knut , Hans-Joachim Perk , Baumert)	20,657 p.	LG Troisdorf ( Uli Schmedemann , Wolfgang Beckmann , Harald Nadzeyka )	19,963 p.
Forest run middle distance - 3.0 km	Harald Norpoth ( LG Ratio Münster )	8: 00.2 min	Karl-Heinz Schirmeier ( LAC source Fürth )	8: 04.6 min	Werner Girke ( VfL Wolfsburg )	8: 06.4 min
Forest run middle distance, team competition	LG Ratio Münster ( Harald Norpoth , Urs Lufft , Heinz-Gerd Mölders )	14 p. (Seats 1/5/8)	VfL Wolfsburg ( Werner Girke , Rolf Burscheid , Alfons Ida )	31 p. (Seats 3/13/15)	LAC source Fürth ( Karl-Heinz Schirmeier , Heinz Mörtl , Hubert Stecher )	33 p. (Places 2/14/17)
Forest run long distance - 10.5 km	Lutz Philipp ( ASC Darmstadt )	29: 01.8 min	Hans Munzinger ( TSV Burgau )	29: 05.2 min	Helmut Schu ( LC Rehlingen )	29: 07.0 min
Forest run long distance, team competition	ASC Darmstadt ( Lutz Philipp , Gottfried Arnold , Hans Hellbach )	16 p. (Seats 1/5/10)	TV Wattenscheid 01 ( Joachim Ließ , Wolfgang Falke , Ernst Vogelsang )	17 p. (Seats 4/6/7)	SCC Berlin ( Klaus Addicks , Hubert Riesner , W. Schmidt)	44 p. (Plä. 13/15/16)

Medalists women

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m	Ingrid Mickler-Becker ( USC Mainz )	11.3 s BRe	Elfgard Schittenhelm b. Weismann ( OSC Berlin )	11.4 s	Heide Rosendahl ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	11.4 s
200 m	Elfgard Schittenhelm b. Weismann ( OSC Berlin )	23.6 s	Rita Wilden born Jahn ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	23.7 s	Annelie Wilden born Klum ( LC Bonn )	23.8 s
400 m	Christel Frese ( ASV Cologne )	52.6 s DR	Inge Eckhoff ( LG Northwest Hamburg )	53.1 s	Heidi Gerhard born Gemstone ( OSC Dortmund )	53.7 s
800 m	Hildegard Janze ( Hanover 96 )	2: 02.8 min	Rosemarie Klute ( OSC Dortmund )	2: 05.8 min	Marita Kloth ( LBV Phönix Lübeck )	2: 06.1 min
1500 m	Ellen Tittel ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	4: 13.1 min BR	Christa Merten b. Basche ( ASV Cologne )	4: 17.6 min	Gerda Klöpfer ( TV Erkheim )	4: 19.0 min
100 m hurdles	Margit Bach ( OSC Hoechst )	13.1 s BRe	Heide Rosendahl ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	13.2 s	Heidi Schüller ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	13.6 s
4 × 100 m relay	TuS 04 Leverkusen ( Jutta Kahmeier , Ursula Schruff , Rita Jahn , Heide Rosendahl )	45.1 s	LC Bonn ( Elvira Possekel , Annelie Wilden née Klum , Renate Rhein , Jutta Heine )	45.3 s	ASC Darmstadt ( Helga Maurer , Groh, Erika Keller née Müller , Dörries)	46.1 s
3 × 800 m relay	ASV Köln ( Rita Windbrake , Christel Frese , Gertrud Theißen )	6: 33.8 min	TuS 04 Leverkusen ( Christine Linz , Gisela Ellenberger , Ellen Tittel )	6: 38.6 min	LG Northwest Hamburg (Seligmann, Inge Eckhoff , Birgit Barth )	6: 40.4 min
high jump	Karen Mack ( TSV 1860 Munich )	1.82 m BR	Renate Gärtner ( SG Schlüchtern )	1.75 m	Ulrike Jacob ( 1. FC 01 Bamberg )	1.75 m
Long jump	Heide Rosendahl ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	6.72 m DRe	Ingrid Mickler-Becker ( USC Mainz )	6.57 m	Heidi Schüller ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	6.22 m
Shot put	Marlene Fuchs born Klein ( TSC Euskirchen )	17.25 m	Liesel Westermann ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	16.07 m	Sigrun Kofink b. Grabert ( LG Tübingen )	15.73 m
Discus throw	Liesel Westermann ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	57.20 m	Brigitte Berendonk ( USC Heidelberg )	56.54 m	Anne-Chatrine Rühlow b. Lafrenz ( Prussia Munster )	52.04 m
Javelin throw	Ameli Koloska b. Isermeyer ( USC Mainz )	55.14 m	Anneliese Gerhards born Jansen ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	53.92 m	Christa Peters b. Sander ( TK Hanover )	51.28 m
Pentathlon , 1969 W. i. Klamm .: 1981 value.	Heide Rosendahl ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	5399 P BR (4749 P)	Ingrid Mickler-Becker ( USC Mainz )	5282 P (4630 P)	Karen Mack ( TSV 1860 Munich )	4853 P (4157 P)
Pentathlon , team competition	TuS 04 Leverkusen ( Heide Rosendahl , Uta Nolte , Rita Jahn )	14,075 P	USC Mainz ( Ingrid Mickler-Becker , Helga Letzelter née Krieß , Maritta Kemming )	14,074 P	TSV 1860 Munich ( Karen Mack , Elke Hindemit , Janssen)	13,552 P
Forest run middle distance - 1.5 km	Christa Merten b. Basche ( ASV Cologne )	4: 41.0 min	Anita Rottmüller b. Wörner ( Post-SG Mannheim )	4: 42.2 min	Maria Strickling born Inderfurth ( OSC Waldniel )	4: 49.4 min
Forest run middle distance, team competition	ASV Köln ( Christa Merten née Basche , Christel Frese , Gertrud Theißen )	11 p. (Places 1/4/6)	OSC Waldniel ( Maria Strickling née Inderfurth , Anni Pede née Erdkamp ,wege)	34 p. (Seats 3/15/16)	OSC Dortmund ( Rosemarie Klute , Heidi Gerhard née Edelstein , Lueg)	40 p. (Seats 5/13/22)
Forest run long distance - 2.5 km	Ellen Tittel ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	8: 02.8 min	Gerda Klöpfer ( TV Erkheim )	8: 12.2 min	Manuela Preuß ( LG Olympia Wuppertal )	8: 16.0 min
Forest run long distance, team competition	LG Olympia Wuppertal ( Manuela Preuß , Christa Kofferschläger , Sigrun Schumacher )	22 p. (Seats 3/9/10)	ASV Cologne ( Christel Frese , Gertrud Theißen , Rita Windbrake )	34 p. (Seats 8/11/15)	LBV Phönix Lübeck ( Marita Kloth , Kirsten Hünemörder , Dagmar Schomann )	37 p. (Seats 5/13/19)

literature

Adolf Metzner: Pretty girls with fast legs. In: The time. August 14, 1970 ( zeit.de ).
Fritz Steinmetz : 75 years of the German Athletics Championships (1898–1972). Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-87039-956-2 .
Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Web links

German athletics champions (until 2003) on sport-komplett.de
Film clips u. a. from the German Athletics Championships on filmothek.bundesarchiv.de, range: 6:17 min to 8:59 min

Individual evidence and explanations

↑ Development of the German athletics records since 1910 (PDF; 50 kB).
↑ Venues of the German Athletics Championships since 1946 (PDF; 47 kB).
↑ Results of the German Marathon Championships in Passau on August 29th on the Marathonspiegel website.
↑ Disciplines of men's pentathlon: long jump, javelin throw, 200 m, discus throw, 1500 m.
↑ Disciplines of women's pentathlon: Day 1 - 100 m hurdles, shot put, high jump / Day 2 - long jump, 200 m.

[1] Development of the German athletics records since 1910 (PDF; 50 kB).

[2] Venues of the German Athletics Championships since 1946 (PDF; 47 kB).

[3] Results of the German Marathon Championships in Passau on August 29th on the Marathonspiegel website.

[4] Disciplines of men's pentathlon: long jump, javelin throw, 200 m, discus throw, 1500 m.

[5] Disciplines of women's pentathlon: Day 1 - 100 m hurdles, shot put, high jump / Day 2 - long jump, 200 m.