Gerald Weiß (athlete)

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Gerald Weiß at the 1988 Olympic qualification in Jena

Gerald Dietmar Eberhard Weiß (born January 8, 1960 in Lübz ; † February 17, 2018 in Kloster Lehnin ) was a track and field athlete who was the Olympic sixth in the javelin throw for the GDR in 1988 .

Gerald Weiß had placed fifth in the GDR championships in 1979. In 1980 he finished second behind Detlef Michel with 82.72 m, in 1981 he threw the javelin at the GDR championships on 89.56 m and won the championship. In 1983 he was second behind Michel with 86.02 m, in 1984 he reached third place with 88.94 m behind Uwe Hohn and Detlef Michel. In 1985, white took fourth place.

With the new javelin, which was used from 1986, Weiß got along well straight away, he finished second behind Detlef Michel at the GDR championships with 80.88 m. At the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart both represented the GDR together. In the qualification, White managed a throw of 81.40 m, which would have been enough for fourth place in the final. White threw only 76.24 m in the preliminary fight and was eliminated in eleventh after the preliminary fight. In 1987 white finished second with 75.80 m at the GDR championships behind Detlef Michel, in 1988 he reached second place behind Silvio Warsönke with 81.92 m . At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988, the experienced white coped better with the situation than the young Warsönke. White reached the final with 80.22 m and took sixth place with 81.30 m. After two third places in the last two championships in the GDR, white also took part in the first all-German championships after the fall of the Wall in 1991 and finished in fifth place.

Gerald Weiss' best performance with the old javelin was 90.06 m, which he threw in 1984. With the new javelin he reached 83.30 m in 1988. Gerald Weiß competed for the SC tractor Schwerin and the Schweriner SC . With a height of 1.93 m, his competition weight was 105 kg. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the fall of the Wall , the name of Weiss was also found among the doped athletes. Gerald Weiss learned the trade as a car mechanic. After completing his vocational training, he completed a degree in social education.

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical Handbook on the History of German Athletics 1898–2005 , Volume 2. Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 3rd Edition, 2005, DNB 1012607232

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Herbst: Former javelin thrower Gerald Weiß died . In: svz.de , February 19, 2018, accessed on February 20, 2018
  2. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud (= Rororo, 8677). Rowohlt, Reinbek, 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 184.
personal data
SURNAME Know Gerald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiß, Gerald Dietmar Eberhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Luebz
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 2018
Place of death Lehnin Monastery