German Athletics Championships 1973

73rd German Athletics Championships
city	Berlin / 5 other locations
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Competitions	34 + 19 at other venues
opening	20th July 1973
Final day	July 22, 1973
timeline
← Munich 1972	Hanover 1974 →

The 73rd German Athletics Championships were held from July 20-22, 1973 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium.

For the first time, there was also a long distance for women: the 3,000-meter run became part of the championship program.

In the shot put Ralf Reichenbach achieved a new German record with 20.51 m.

In addition, as in previous years, further championship titles were awarded at various other locations, named in the following list in chronological order.

• Forest runs - Marktredwitz , March 31st with individual / team ratings for women and men on two route lengths each (medium / long distance). This discipline was last called 'forest run' instead of the future 'cross-country run'.
• Marathon (men) - Eschborn , September 15th with individual and team evaluation
• 50 km walk (men) - Eschborn , September 16 with individual and team classification
• Long teams, women: 3 × 800 m / men: 4 × 800 m and 4 × 1500 m as well
• All-around competitions (women: pentathlon ) / (men: decathlon ) with individual and team ratings - Hanover , 7./8. July

The following overview summarizes the medal winners. A more detailed overview with the first eight in each of the individual disciplines can be found under the link German Athletics Championships 1973 / Results .

Medalists, men

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m (wind: +3.6)	Jobst Hirscht ( SV Hamburg Police )	10.38 s	Franz-Peter Hofmeister ( Youth 07 Bergheim )	10.41 s	Manfred Ommer ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	10.44 s
200 m (wind: +5.0)	Franz-Peter Hofmeister ( Youth 07 Bergheim )	20.84 s	Manfred Ommer ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	20.99 s	Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske ( TSV Siemensstadt Berlin )	21.34 s
400 m	Karl Honz ( VfB Stuttgart )	45.60 s	Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske ( TSV Siemensstadt Berlin )	46.30 s	Hermann Köhler ( TV Wattenscheid 01 )	46.43 s
800 m	Paul-Heinz Wellmann ( TV 1885 Haiger )	1: 50.15 min	Franz-Josef Kemper ( LG Ratio Münster )	1: 50.26 min	Reiner Burmester ( VfL Wolfsburg )	1: 50.65 min
1500 m	Paul-Heinz Wellmann ( TV 1885 Haiger )	3: 42.55 min	Thomas Wessinghage ( TV 1885 Haiger )	3: 43.06 min	Christoph Engel ( LG Braunschweig )	3: 44.85 min
5000 m	Harald Norpoth ( LG Ratio Münster )	13: 48.2 min	Wolfgang Riesinger ( LG Ratio Münster )	13: 49.0 min	Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand ( Neuwieder LG )	13: 51.6 min
10,000 m	Detlef Uhlemann ( LC Bonn )	28: 52.2 min	Paul Angenvoorth ( FC Bayer 05 Uerdingen )	29: 03.2 min	Wolfgang Krüger ( LBV Phönix Lübeck )	29: 05.8 min
marathon	Lutz Philipp ( ASC Wella Darmstadt )	2: 24: 39.8 h	Wolf-Dieter Poschmann ( LG Rhein-Berg )	2: 25: 24.8 hours	Clemens Schneider-Strittmatter ( LG Bruchsal / Karlsruhe )	2: 26: 18.2 h
Marathon , team competition	ASC Wella Darmstadt ( Lutz Philipp , Walter Weba , Karl-Heinz Pschera )	7:30: 29.6 h	LG Bruchsal / Karlsruhe ( Clemens Schneider-Strittmatter , Gernot Bastian , Richard Zimmermann )	7: 33: 05.6 h	LG Rhein-Berg ( Wolf-Dieter Poschmann , Heiner Debbe , Goar Engeländer )	7: 54: 42.8 h
110 m hurdles (wind: +1.7)	Eckhart Berkes ( TV Wattenscheid 01 )	13.97 s	Kurt Aubele ( LG Staufen )	14.28 s	Werner Eikmeier ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	14.30 s
400 m hurdles	Werner Reibert ( USC Heidelberg )	50.73 s	Georg Nückles ( Kehler FV )	50.75 s	Rolf Ziegler ( SKV Eglosheim )	51.46 s
3000 m obstacle	Willi Maier ( TSV Genkingen )	8: 32.0 min	Michael Karst ( SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken )	8: 34.0 min	Willi Wagner ( TV Wattenscheid 01 )	8: 38.0 min
4 × 100 m relay	TV Wattenscheid 01 ( Günter Wessing , Klaus-Dieter Bieler , Dieter Steinmann , Klaus Ehl )	39.82 s	Youth 07 Bergheim (Siep, Walter, Helmut Feldges , Franz-Peter Hofmeister )	40.34 s	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen ( Ulrich Haupt , Koch, Manfred Ommer , Hartmut Strempel )	40.45 s
4 × 400 m relay	VfB Stuttgart ( Gerhard Burkhardt , Siegfried Götz , Bernhard Schmid , Karl Honz )	3: 08.52 min	Berlin TS (Williams, Volker Kolletzky , Franz-Josef Gleen , Wolfgang Druschky )	3: 08.97 min	LC Bonn ( Manfred Adam , Gerhard Henrich , Gerd Schröder , Reinhold Soyka )	3: 11.00 min
4 × 800 m relay	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen (Drivers, Joachim Strauss , Reiner Föhrenbach , Ulrich Reich )	7: 26.7 min	TV 1885 Haiger ( Joachim Wehnge , Eberhard Weyel , Thomas Wessinghage , Paul-Heinz Wellmann )	7: 28.5 min	TV Wattenscheid 01 (Schnieders, Bach, Lubba, Nichtenberg)	7: 34.0 min
4 × 1500 m relay	LG Ratio Münster ( Franz-Josef Kemper , Urs Lufft , Wolfgang Riesinger , Harald Norpoth )	15: 35.0 min	ASC Wella Darmstadt ( Reinhard Leibold , Fritz Schäfer , Dirk Stratmann , Arnd Krüger )	15: 35.2 min	VfL Wolfsburg ( Gerd Schade , Reiner Burmester , Klaus Klingeberg , Rolf Burscheid )	15: 41.6 min
20 km walk	Gerhard Weidner ( LG Salzgitter )	1: 31: 23.4 h	Heinz Mayr ( VfL Wolfsburg )	1:33: 45.0 h	Heinrich Schubert ( DJK Adler Bad Kreuznach )	1: 35: 50.2 h
20 km walk , team competition	VfL Wolfsburg ( Heinz Mayr , Manfred Kolvenbach , Wolfgang Klaiber )	4:59:07.6 h	LG Salzgitter ( Gerhard Weidner , Gerd Schuth , Wolfgang Kaschel )	5: 01: 16.8 h	Eintracht Frankfurt ( Hans Michalski , Jürgen Schönfeld , Walter Drössler )	5:02:10 h
50 km of walking	Bernd Kannenberg ( LAC source Fürth )	4: 07: 56.2 h	Gerhard Weidner ( LG Salzgitter )	4:09:26.8 h	Heinrich Schubert ( DJK Adler Bad Kreuznach )	4: 17: 22.2 h
50 km walking , team competition	Eintracht Frankfurt ( Hans Michalski , Jürgen Schönfeld , Walter Drössler )	13: 21: 58.2 h	LG Salzgitter ( Gerhard Weidner , Gerd Schuth , Klaiber)	13: 35: 01.2 h	USC Heidelberg ( Leo Frey , Robert Henderson / USA , Allen / USA )	13: 53: 57.6 h
high jump	Lothar Doster ( SV Salamander Kornwestheim )	2.14 m	Walter Boller ( USC Mainz )	2.11 m	Peter Frost ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	2.11 m
Pole vault	Volker Ohl ( SG Arheilgen )	5.20 m	Reinhard Kuretzky ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	5.20 m	Hans-Jürgen Ziegler ( KSV Hessen Kassel )	5.20 m
Long jump	Hans Baumgartner ( TV Heppenheim )	7.83 m	Helmut Klöck ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	7.80 m	Andreas Gloerfeld ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	7.73 m
Triple jump	Richard Kick ( TSV 1860 Munich )	16.17 m	Joachim Kugler ( ASC Wella Darmstadt )	16.07 m	Bernd Becker ( TSG 1883 Münster / Ts. )	15.64 m
Shot put	Ralf Reichenbach ( OSC Berlin )	20.51 m BR	Gerhard Steines ( LG Lahn-Dill / TV Wetzlar )	19.54 m	Ferdinand Schladen ( LC Bonn )	19.52 m
Discus throw	Klaus-Peter Hennig ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	63.06 m	Hein-Direck New ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	61.54 m	Dirk Wippermann ( Rot-Weiß Oberhausen )	58.06 m
Hammer throw	Karl-Hans Riehm ( TV Germania Trier )	73.98 m	Uwe Beyer ( USC Mainz )	72.72 m	Edwin Klein ( USC Mainz )	71.56 m
Javelin throw	Klaus Wolfermann ( SV Gendorf )	82.62 m	Horst Timmer ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	78.04 m	Reinhard Lange ( KSV Hessen Kassel )	76.10 m
Pentathlon , 1965 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Günter Grube ( LBV Phönix Lübeck )	3660 P (3812 P)	Rudi Krancer ( TSG Balingen )	3619 P (3741 P)	Wolfgang Tilly ( LG ESV / PSV Essen )	3466 P (3598 P)
Pentathlon , team competition	LBV Phönix Lübeck ( Günter Grube , Ulrich Zunker , Wolfgang Zdechlik )	10,280 P	LG ESV / PSV Essen ( Wolfgang Tilly , Wolf. Schneider)	9,872 P	TSG Balingen ( Rudi Kränzer , Eugen Stumpp , Volker Wunderlich )	9,835 P
Decathlon , 1965 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Herbert Swoboda ( USC Mainz )	7769 P (7622 P)	Norbert Hoischen ( OSC Thier Dortmund )	7663 P (7530 P)	Werner Eikmeier ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	7527 P (7355 P)
Decathlon , team competition	USC Mainz ( Herbert Swoboda , Guido Kratschmer , Frank Hensel )	21,855 P	LG USC Bochum ( Wolfgang Linkmann , Claus Marek , Detlef Kleefeld )	20,571 P	LC Bonn ( Walter Mössle , Uli Schmedemann , Gerd Stengert )	20,143 P
Forest run middle distance - 5400 m	Willi Maier ( TSV Genkingen )	16: 11.4 min	Christoph Engel ( LG Braunschweig )	16: 15.2 min	Ulrich Hutmacher ( VfL Wolfsburg )	16: 19.8 min
Forest run middle distance, team competition	VfL Wolfsburg ( Ulrich Hutmacher , Wolfgang Soukup , Gerd Schade )	Pl.-Ziff. 20th	TSV Genkingen ( Willi Maier , Ulrich Dinkelacker , Uwe Beck )	Pl.-Ziff. 40	LG Ludwigshafen ( Karl Mann , Roland Jochem , Günther Lenske )	Pl.-Ziff. 48
Forest run long distance - 12,400 m	Lutz Philipp ( ASC Wella Darmstadt )	39: 01.4 min	Detlef Uhlemann ( LC Bonn )	39: 09.4 min	Hans-Dieter Schulten ( TV Wattenscheid 01 )	39: 18.6 min
Forest run long distance, team competition	ASC Wella Darmstadt ( Lutz Philipp , Helmut Jesberg , Reinhard Leibold )	Pl.-Ziff. 13	LC Bonn ( Detlef Uhlemann , Gerd Escher , Johannes Lummer )	Pl.-Ziff. 21st	TV Wattenscheid 01 ( Hans-Dieter Schulten , Willi Wagner , Günter Mielke )	Pl.-Ziff. 29

Medalists, women

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m (wind: +0.6)	Elfgard Schittenhelm b. Weismann ( OSC Berlin )	11.45 s	Annegret Richter b. Irrgang ( OSC Thier Dortmund )	11.49 s	Annegret Kroniger ( USC Mainz )	11.68 s
200 m (wind: +4.9)	Annegret Kroniger ( USC Mainz )	23.26 s	Annegret Richter b. Irrgang ( OSC Thier Dortmund )	23.32 s	Rita Wilden born Jahn ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	23.46 s
400 m	Rita Wilden born Jahn ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	52.72 s	Erika Weinstein born Götz ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	53.13 s	Christel Frese ( ASV Cologne )	53.78 s
800 m	Hildegard Falck b. Janze ( VfL Wolfsburg )	2: 05.85 min	Sabine Skov ( TSB Flensburg )	2: 07.57 min	Rosemarie Balke b. Klute ( OSC Thier Dortmund )	2: 07.82 min
1500 m	Ellen Tittel ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	4: 27.45 min	Sylvia Schenk ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	4: 30.53 min	Marlene Weiland b. Loris ( TV 1895 Elm )	4: 30.77 min
3000 m	Christa Merten b. Basche ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	9: 23.0 min	Gerda Ranz born Klöpfer ( TV Erkheim )	9: 23.8 min	Christa Kofferschläger ( Barmer TV 1846 Wuppertal )	9: 41.0 min
100 m hurdles (wind: +0.9)	Uta Nolte ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	13.60 s	Monika Scherb ( LG Frankfurt )	13.62 s	Marlies Koschinski ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	13.75 s
4 × 100 m relay	OSC Berlin ( Sigrid Barth , Elfgard Schittenhelm née Weismann , Evelin Borrmann , Maren Schröder )	45.16 s	TuS 04 Leverkusen ( Erika Weinstein née Götz , Uta Nolte , Rita Wilden née Jahn , Heide Rosendahl )	45.59 s	LC Bonn ( Elvira Possekel , Annelie Wilden née Klum , Marlies Kühn , Brigitte Richter née Killius )	45.62 s
3 × 800 m relay	TuS 04 Leverkusen ( Christel Schlaukötter née Trompler , Ellen Tittel , Gisela Ellenberger )	6: 31.7 min	ASV Köln ( Rita Windbrake , Christel Frese , Gertrud Theißen )	6: 45.1 min	1. FC Passau ( Renate Kronawitter , Ursula Reiser , Karin Kaseder )	6: 45.4 min
high jump	Ulrike Meyfarth ( ASV Cologne )	1.83 m	Renate Gärtner ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	1.81 m	Renate Pietschmann ( Stuttgart Kickers )	1.78 m
Long jump	Edda Trocha b. Schmiedel ( SG Düren 99 )	6.44 m	Heide Rosendahl ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	6.25 m	Margot Eppinger ( LG Filder )	6.16 m
Shot put	Brigitte Berendonk ( USC Heidelberg )	15.79 m	Liesel Westermann ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	15.57 m	Eva Wilms ( Sport-Union Annen )	15.24 m
Discus throw	Liesel Westermann ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	59.60 m	Brigitte Berendonk ( USC Heidelberg )	58.84 m	Ilse Spieß ( ASC Wella Darmstadt )	55.58 m
Javelin throw	Ameli Koloska b. Isermeyer ( USC Mainz )	57.14 m	Christa Peters b. Sander ( TK Hanover )	51.74 m	Almut Brömmel ( TSV 1860 Munich )	51.04 m
Pentathlon , 1971 W. i. Klamm .: 1981 value.	Margot Eppinger ( LG Filder )	4373 P (4291 P)	Christel Voss ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	4327 P (4229 P)	Ulrike Jacob ( LG Erlangen )	4134 P (4007 P)
Pentathlon , team competition	TuS 04 Leverkusen ( Christel Voss , Christa Köhler , Rödel)	12,136 P	LG USC Bochum ( Annette Stein , Hanne Ziemek , Markert)	11,358 P	Düsseldorfer SC 99 ( Birgit Martin , Leboterf, Ursula Wöhler )	11,025 P
Forest run middle distance - 1500 m	Ellen Tittel ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	4: 19.2 min	Christa Merten b. Basche ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	4: 23.0 min	Gisela Ellenberger ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	4: 29.6 min
Forest run middle distance, team competition	TuS 04 Leverkusen ( Ellen Tittel , Gisela Ellenberger , Erika Weinstein née Götz )	Pl.-Ziff. 15th	Neuwieder LC ( Herta Kaffei , Gabi Klein , Dagmar Anhäuser )	Pl.-Ziff. 32	LBV Phönix Lübeck ( Marita Jeske née Kloth , Kirsten Hünemörder , Krüger)	Pl.-Ziff. 36
Forest run long distance - 4400 m	Ellen Tittel ( TuS 04 Leverkusen )	15: 14.6 min	Gerda Ranz born Klöpfer ( TV Erkheim )	15: 30.4 min	Charlotte Teske b. Bernhard ( ASC Wella Darmstadt )	15: 38.6 min
Forest run long distance, team competition	TuS 04 Leverkusen ( Ellen Tittel , Erika Weinstein née Götz , Diehl)	Pl.-Ziff. 30th	ASC Wella Darmstadt ( Charlotte Teske née Bernhard , Christel Rosenthal , Lutz)	Pl.-Ziff. 30th	Barmer TV 1846 Wuppertal ( Christa Kofferschläger , Eva Oppermann , Ingrid Unger )	Pl.-Ziff. 41

literature

• Fritz Steinmetz : German Athletics Championships. Volume 2: 1973-1981. Waldfischbach 1982.

Web links

• German athletics champions (until 2003) on sport-komplett.de
• Athletics champion of the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1990) on gbrathletics.com
• Film clips u. a. from the German Athletics Championships on filmothek.bundesarchiv.de, range: 4:30 min to 7:02 min

Individual evidence and explanations

1. ↑ Venues of the German Athletics Championships since 1946 (PDF; 47 kB).
2. ↑ Results of the German Marathon Championships in Eschborn on September 15th on the Marathonspiegel website.
3. ↑ Disciplines of men's pentathlon: long jump, javelin throw, 200 m, discus throw, 1500 m