Gerhard Dietrich (gymnast)

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Gerhard Dietrich, 1968
Gerhard Dietrich, 1968

Apparatus gymnast

Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic
Olympic Summer Games
bronze 1968 Team all-around
World championships
bronze 1966 Team all-around
bronze 1970 Team all-around
European championships
bronze 1967 Team all-around
bronze 1967 Horse jump
bronze 1967 Pommel horse

Gerhard Dietrich (born  May 12, 1942 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) is a former German gymnast who started for the GDR. His hometown club was the ASK Vorwärts Potsdam .

He was discovered during a sighting in the physical education class of his school and came to the gymnasts at BSG Aufbau Brandenburg via the acrobats . In 1960 he was accepted into the children's and youth sports school (KJS) in his hometown. Since the KJS had been operated by ZSKA Vorwärts Berlin II since 1959 (from 1966 the ASK Vorwärts Potsdam was spun off there), he came to this association and became a member of the military. In addition to training, he took up a degree in physical education .

Dietrich achieved his greatest international individual successes at the European Championships in 1967 when he won a bronze medal in horse jumping and a pommel horse . In addition, he also won a bronze medal with the team. After that, his sports career seemed to be over, because a serial check-up at the end of 1967 found him to have inactive tuberculosis . Nevertheless, after a three-year hospital stay, he made the leap to the Olympic team.

At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , he won a bronze medal in the team all-around with the team of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Also at the gymnastics world championships in Dortmund in 1966 and in Ljubljana in 1970 , he took third place in the all- around with the GDR team. In 1965 and 1970 he won a total of ten medals at GDR championships, including two championship titles on the pommel horse in 1966 and 1970 as well as four silver medals.

Gerhard Dietrich was an extremely light athlete who, in the 1960s, was the first athlete in the world to achieve a double twist on the horizontal bar . He ended his career in 1970 and completed his teaching degree two years later. He stayed a year as a coach at the sports club and from 1973 worked as a teacher at the KJS, which was gradually moved to Potsdam from 1973 to 1978 . After the fall of the Berlin Wall he became unemployed and worked as a caretaker for a few years . At the age of 60 he retired. He lives in Brandenburg an der Havel.

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  1. ↑ a b c ale [Marcus Alert]: Won bronze at the Olympics. Gerhard Dietrich celebrates his 75th birthday . Märkische Allgemeine , Brandenburger Kurier / Lokalsport, May 15, 2017, p. 27
  2. ↑ Gerhard Pohl: The history of SC Potsdam from 1961 to 1969 (accessed on May 17, 2017)
  3. ↑ Frank Brekow: keyword "children's and youth sports school (KJS)" . In: Udo Geiseler, Klaus Heß (eds.): Brandenburg an der Havel. Lexicon on city history (=  individual publications of the Brandenburg Historical Commission eV Volume XIII ). Lucas Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86732-001-6 , pp. 206 .
  4. ↑ Marcus Alert: Gerhard Dietrich still holds his Olympic bronze medal in honor  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.maerkischeallgemeine.de   In: Märkische Allgemeine . Published online October 28, 2010 (last accessed November 15, 2010)
  5. ↑ History of the Sports School Potsdam (accessed on May 17, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German apparatus gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel