Erich Fuchs (athlete)

Erich Fuchs
nation	BR Germany
birthday	June 27, 1925
place of birth	Mühlheim an der Eis ,  German Empire
size	172 cm
Weight	66 kg
job	Sports educator
date of death	July 26, 2014
Place of death	Kaiserslautern ,  Germany
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	100 m: 10.6 s
society	1. FC Kaiserslautern
Medal table
German championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
German championships silver Berlin 1952 100 m

Erich Fuchs (born June 27, 1925 in Mühlheim an der Eis ; † July 26, 2014 in Kaiserslautern ) was a German sprinter , athletics trainer and sports educator .

biography

After Fuchs won the silver medal at the German Championships in 1952 over 100 meters , a few weeks later he was also allowed to start in the 100 meter race at the Olympic Games in Helsinki . Fuchs was eliminated in the preliminary run and was 31st in the overall ranking.

Fuchs was a professor at the University of Education in Kaiserslautern. In addition, he was a founding member of the educational organization of the State Sports Association and the Olympic base in Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland . For many years he chaired the state committee for competitive sports in the state sports association of Rhineland-Palatinate .

From 1960 to 1968, Fuchs was national coach of the German women's sprint relay.

Fonts

• Programmable training aids for athletes, Volume 4: Der Sprint Berlin, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-87039-970-8 .

Web links

• Erich Fuchs in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )