Ewald Mertens

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Ewald Mertens (born September 24, 1909 in Nordhausen , † February 7, 1965 in Berlin ) was a German athlete and athletics trainer.

Mertens competed for KTV Wittenberg during his most successful years . In 1933 he finished third behind Hans König and Alwin Paul at the German Championships over 800 meters. After a fourth place in 1935, he reached third place again in 1936, this time behind Rudolf Harbig and Wolfgang Dessecker . Harbig, Dessecker and Mertens also represented Germany at the Olympic Games in Berlin over this route, Harbig was eliminated in the preliminary run, Mertens and Dessecker in the interim. In September 1936, the 4 x 1500 meter relay of the KTV Wittenberg with Max Syring , Karl-Heinz Becker, Ewald Mertens and Werner Böttcher won the German championship. In 1937 he reached second place behind Rudolf Harbig at the German championships over 800 meters. The KTV Wittenberg season defended its championship title in the line-up of Walter Schönrock , Mertens, Becker and Syring.

After the Second World War, Mertens worked as a trainer. He looked after Ursula Donath at SC Chemie Halle until 1957 . From 1957 he was district trainer for the Thuringian Athletics Association and then head trainer at SC Turbine Erfurt . He looked after Manfred Matuschewski , who won the first European athletics championship title of a GDR athlete in 1962. Jürgen May and from 1961 Siegfried Herrmann also belonged to the Erfurt running group . May, Herrmann and Matuschewski ran on July 23, 1963 together with Siegfried Valentin from East Berlin, a world record in the 4 x 1,500 meter relay. With these, Mertens practiced an interval training propagated by Woldemar Gerschler as early as 1933 , which was enriched by Soviet periodization elements.

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society
  • Schiefelbein, Horst: Matu, the millimeter runner . Sportverlag Berlin, 1964

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Many roads lead to Olympia. The changes in training systems for medium and long distance runners (1850–1997) . In: N. Gissel (Hrsg.): Sporting performance in change . Czwalina, Hamburg 1998, pp. 41-56.
  2. ↑ Donath, Rolf, Ewald Mertens: Medium-distance and obstacle course: technology, training, tactics. Berlin (O): Sportverlag, 1960.

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personal data
SURNAME Mertens, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and athletic trainer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhausen
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1965
Place of death Berlin