Gerhard Hartmann (athlete)

Gerhard Hartmann (born January 12, 1955 in Reutte ) is an Austrian long-distance runner and former owner of the national record in marathon running .

The athlete from Vils im Ausserfern played football in his youth in the home club. It was only during his military service that he discovered his running talent and joined the athletics section of SV Reutte . In total, he won 58 Austrian championship titles. Even today it is high in Austria's Eternal Leaderboards:

• 3000 m : 4th place (7: 50.31 min, August 13, 1986, Zurich )
• 5000 m : 3rd place (13: 22.30 min, August 6, 1986, Koblenz )
• 10,000 m : 2nd place (27: 49.35 min, July 5, 1986, Oslo )

He set his first Austrian record over the marathon distance in 1983 with 2:15:54 h as seventh in the Frankfurt marathon . In 1984 he improved this mark by finishing sixth in the Vienna Spring Marathon to 2:15:32 h and in 1985 as the winner of the same competition to 2:14:49 h.

On April 13, 1986, he again took part in the Vienna Spring Marathon. Despite temperatures just above freezing point and occasional snowfall, he won by four minutes and set a record of 2:12:22 h, which was only broken by Günther Weidlinger in 2009 . In 1987 he won for the third time in a row in Vienna in 2:16:10 h.

Hartmann took part in the marathon of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, but did not reach the goal. At the European Athletics Championships in 1986 in Stuttgart, he was ninth in the 10,000 meter run . In 1987 and 1988 he won the Grand Prix of Bern , in 1988 and 1989 the Greifensee run . At the Vienna Spring Marathon in 1991 he was on the way to another record as the leader, but fell halfway and had to retire with an injury to his thigh. Then he retired from top-class sport.

Gerhard Hartmann is 1.80 m tall and weighed 64 kg at competition times (66 kg today). Until 1985 he started for SV Reutte , then for LAC Innsbruck . He still runs as a hobby every day. In addition to his learned profession as a toolmaker, he also works as a running and seminar trainer and is often on the road as a brake and train runner at running events (e.g. in 2006 at the Tirol Speed ​​Marathon for the 3:30 hour mark).

literature

• Heiner Boberski : The Marathon Myth. Fates - Legends - Highlights. 2500 years of long-distance running. NP-Buchverlag, St. Pölten 2004, ISBN 3-85326-235-X , p. 88f.

Web links

• Gerhard Hartmann in the database of World Athletics (English)
• 20 years of the Austrian marathon record , ÖLV website, April 13, 2006
• Marathon record celebrates its twenties , article in Standard , April 13, 2006
• Gerhard Hartmann: His record has been holding for 20 years , article by Dr. Rainer Salzburger in the ASVÖ Newsletter (magazine of the General Sports Association of Austria ), 5/2007, p. 8 (PDF; 2.08 MB)

Footnotes

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