Gerhard Wucherer

Gerhard Wucherer (born February 11, 1948 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) is a former German athlete and Olympic medalist who - starting for Germany - was successful as a 100-meter runner in the 1960s and 1970s . His greatest success is winning the bronze medal with the Federal German team in the 4 x 100 meter relay of the Federal Republic at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich (38.79 s - together with Jobst Hirscht , Karlheinz Klotz and Klaus Ehl , Wucherer as third runner).

For this sporting success he received - together with the 4 x 100 meter relay members - the Silver Laurel Leaf on September 11, 1972 .

Gerhard Wucherer is 1.72 m tall and weighed 70 kg during his active time. He is a doctor of medicine.

Further starts at international highlights

• Olympic Games 1968 : 6th place in the 4 x 100 meter relay (38.7 s; together with Karl-Peter Schmidtke , Gerd Metz and Joachim Eigenherr , Gerhard Wucherer as second runner; eliminated in the 100 meter intermediate run) .
• European Championships 1969 : 6th place in the 4 x 100 meter relay (39.6 s; together with Manfred Knickenberg , Volker Stöckel and Günther Nickel ; Gerhard Wucherer as second runner).
• European Championships 1971 : 2nd place in the 100 meter run; In the 100-meter relay race, the baton could not be handed over at the second change between Karlheinz Klotz and Gerhard Wucherer, therefore disqualification.
• 1972 Olympic Games : Eliminated in the 100-meter preliminary run.

Gerhard Wucherer belonged first to TSV München-Ost , later to TSV 1860 Munich and from 1971 to USC Mainz .

Web links

• Gerhard Wucherer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sports report of the Federal Government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 68 (pdf , 1.86 MB).