Günter Mielke

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Günter Mielke (born November 30, 1942 in Berlin , † January 18, 2010 in Auckland , New Zealand ) was a German long-distance runner .

Career

Mielke started running at the age of 14 and worked for the clubs SC Charlottenburg , OSC Berlin , ASV Köln , TV Wattenscheid 01 , VfL Wolfsburg , LG Neckar-Odenwald, ASC Darmstadt and TuS Griesheim , among others . In 1965 he was third in the German championships over 10,000 meters . In 1971 he became German university champion over 5000 m and 10,000 m and won the Essen marathon around the Baldeneysee . As runner-up in 1971 and 1972 over this distance, he qualified for the Olympic Games in Munich , where he had to give up in the preliminary run. In the same year he became German runner-up in the marathon .

In the following years he concentrated on this route, on which he set the German annual best four times in a row from 1974 to 1977 and stayed under 2:20 hours a total of twenty times. Shortly before the European Athletics Championships in Rome in 1974 , he suffered an injury to his shin and only finished 20th. In 1975 he was German marathon champion in Dülmen with a lead of almost four minutes. The following year he was second behind the future Waldemar Cierpinski in the Karl Marx Stadt Marathon and thus qualified for the Olympic Games in Montreal . Although he suffered a foot injury shortly after the start, he made it through the race and came in 54th place. In 1977 he won the title again at the German Championships, which were held at a separate start as part of the Berlin Marathon . In 1979 he became German runner-up in the marathon, and in 1981 he finished second in the Frankfurt Marathon with his personal best of 2:13:58 h and won the premiere of the Helsinki Marathon . Mielke was looking for strong training groups and trained with his main competitor Lutz Philipp at ASC Darmstadt . His training was long and intense.

In 1982 he set the current German record for the M40 age group in eighteenth place at the Tokyo International Men's Marathon with 2:16:05 h (as of December 2009). In the M45 class, he set three current national records: over 5000 meters (14: 35.1 min, July 27, 1988, Frankfurt am Main ), 10,000 meters (30: 22.58 min, July 2, 1988, Kassel ) and in the marathon (2:21:00 h, May 17, 1987, Munich ). In the M55 class, the current bests over 10,000 meters (32: 29.86 min, April 22, 1997, Darmstadt ) and in the 10 km road race (32:48 min, March 29, 1997, Jügesheim ) come from him. .

Günter Mielke was 1.76 m tall and weighed 62 kg. He had broken off studying dentistry in order to be able to devote himself entirely to his passion, long-distance running, and was then an elementary school teacher by profession ; later he also acted as a representative of various running shoe brands and as the sporting director of the Frankfurt Marathon in the 1990s. In 2008 he settled in Mintraching with his wife Hedy Brandl .

In January 2010, on the last day of a vacation in New Zealand, he collapsed while jogging on a beach near Auckland. Although he was reanimated by a nurse who happened to be passing by and taken to a hospital, he died three days later. On February 5, he was buried in Regensburg on the Dreifaltigkeitsberg.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Many roads lead to Olympia. The changes in training systems for medium and long distance runners (1850–1997). Nortbert Gissel (Hrsg.): Sporting performance in change . Hamburg 1998: Czwalina, pp. 41-56.
personal data
SURNAME Mielke, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German long-distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 2010
Place of death Auckland