Günther Lohre

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Günther-Gerhard Lohre (born May 12, 1953 in Leonberg ; † March 15, 2019 there ) was a German athlete .

Career

Lohre started for Salamander Kornwestheim . He was 18 times German champion in pole vault and ninth at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal . At European Championships he finished 11th ( 1978 ) and 7th ( 1982 ). In 1976 and 1979 Lohre was fourth at the European Indoor Championships. He missed the 1980 Olympics because of the boycott .

On September 5th, 1978 Lohre jumped the German record for the first time with 5.51 m. On August 17, 1979, he increased it to 5.60 m, before he jumped 5.65 m on July 25, 1982. Jürgen Winkler beat the record on July 29, 1983 with a jump of 5.66 m.

Lohre was 1979-1983 active spokesman for the Athletics - National Team . His personal best is 5.65 m, which he jumped in 1982 in Munich. With a height of 1.91 m, he had a competition weight of 82 kg.

After his career in competitive sport , Lohre ran the marketing agency Roth & Lohre, founded in 1986, together with Ulrich Roth . In 1997 he left the company to switch to the IT industry. From 2000, Lohre was Marketing and Sales Director at the IT logistics company Caatoosee in Leonberg. Since 2005 he has been an independent consultant for business development .

From 2009 onwards, Lohre was vice president of competitive sport in the German Athletics Association for several years . From 2011 to 2015 he was competitive sports director at the Baden-Württemberg state sports association .

Lohre died on March 15, 2019 in his hometown of Leonberg.

German championships

  • open air
    • Masters: 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984
    • Second: 1981
  • Hall
    • Masters: 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983
    • Third: 1974, 1984

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Founder Ulrich Roth buys out partner Rolf Lorenz. In: PRReport.de. April 19, 2013, accessed September 28, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Günther Lohre is dead. Spiegel Online, March 17, 2019, accessed on the same day.
personal data
SURNAME Lohre, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lohre, Günther-Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Leonberg
DATE OF DEATH 15th March 2019
Place of death Leonberg