Georg Werthner

Georg Werthner (born April 7, 1956 in Linz ) is a former Austrian athlete who took part in the Olympic Games four times.

Career

Werthner began his career at ULC Linz and later joined the decathlon union Linz . As early as 1975 he was the first Austrian champion in the decathlon , in 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986 and 1988 he also won the title and is thus the record winner at Austrian championships. He and Sepp Zeilbauer dominated the decathlon in Austria for over a decade. In addition, Werthner won the long jump title in 1977, in 1977, 1980, 1982 and 1983 he won the triple jump . Werthner was also successful in javelin throwing at the national championships: in 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984 and 1988 he won the title here. At the first Austrian indoor championships in 1980 he won the long jump and triple jump, and in 1982 he won another title in the long jump. His Austrian decathlon record, set in Schielleiten in 1982, was beaten in 1993 by Gernot Kellermayr .

The main focus of his international career was the decathlon. In 1976 he took part in the Olympic Games for the first time . With 7493 points (7443) he finished 16th and was two places ahead of Daley Thompson . At the European Championships in 1978 , Werthner gave up early. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , Werthner reached 8050 points (8084) and took fourth place, 85 points behind bronze, in the javelin throw he was the best participant in the field with 73.66 m. Two years later, Werthner rose to 8171 points (8165) at the European Championships in Athens in 1982 and took fifth place behind Daley Thompson, the West German Jürgen Hingsen and the two East Germans Siegfried Stark and Steffen Grummt . In 1984 Werthner again took part in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles , with 8012 points (8028) he reached ninth place. In 1988 in Seoul , Werthner took part in the Olympic Games for the fourth time and finished 21st with 7753 points.

Werthner's competition weight was 90 kg with a height of 1.90 m.

The doctor of finance law was also active in the decathlon after his sporting career. He organized the first one-hour decathlon in Austria and Germany, in which all participants had to complete their ten disciplines in one hour. This competition format was very popular around the world, especially in the 1990s.

In 1984 he organized the first everyone's decathlon in Linz, where everyone can do a decathlon.For many amateur athletes, these competitions not only mean their first contact with the decathlon, but also with technically demanding disciplines such as hurdles and pole vaults. Between 1993 and 2009 he brought the format to Vienna and led it to new record sizes. Including the largest decathlon in history for the Millennium (2000) in the Vienna Prater Stadium and the surrounding sports facilities with 1007 points collectors.

Since 2000 he has also organized children's ten fights in Austria with his association of the decathlon union. The children's decathlon offers a playful, versatile and very attractive entry-level variant into athletics. For many athletes who went on to be successful, this series of competitions was the start of the competition. So also for Sarah Lagger, which Georg Werthner then successfully brought up to the top of the world in the U18 and U20 age groups as a coach. In the heptathlon, she was second at the U18 World Championships in 2015 and second at the U18 European Championships and U20 World Champion in 2016. He discovered Sarah Lagger in 2008 during sports motor tests which he carried out at her school. The TDS (Talents Diagnosis System) was developed by his brother Roland.

In October 2016 Georg Werthner received the "European Athletics Coaching Award" from the European Athletics Association for his success with Sarah Lagger and Leon Okafor, who won bronze in the decathlon at the U18 European Championship in 2016.

Top performances

100 meters: 11.04 s (1982)
Long jump: 7.43 m (1982)
Shot put: 14.84 m (1982)
High jump: 2.07 m (1982)
400 meters: 48.64 s (1982)
110 meter hurdles: 14.81 s (1982)
Discus throw: 43.04 m (1982)
Pole vault: 4.85 m (1980)
Javelin throw: 76.96 m (1984)
1500 meters: 4: 14.89 min (1982)
Decathlon: 8224 points (1982) (based on the scoring at the time, 8229 points)
Triple jump: 16.02 m (1986)

literature

DGLD bulletin. No. 15. Darmstadt 1996
Erich Kamper & Karl Graf: Austria's athletics in names and numbers. Graz 1986, ISBN 3-7011-7169-6
Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV )
zurgams (Ed.): Time leaps. 35 years of all-around meeting Götzis. Bucher Verlag, Hohenems 2009, ISBN 978-3-902679-23-9

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Footnotes

↑ The points according to the point scoring valid since 1985 are given in brackets.

personal data
SURNAME	Werthner, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian athlete, four-time Olympic participant
DATE OF BIRTH	April 7, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH	Linz

[1] The points according to the point scoring valid since 1985 are given in brackets.