Gunther Rodehau
Gerhard Gunther Rodehau (born July 6, 1959 in Meißen ) is a former athlete who started twice in the European Championship in hammer throw for the German Democratic Republic .
The thrower from SC Einheit Dresden competed in GDR championships between 1979 and 1990 and competed in 14 international matches for the GDR between 1980 and 1990. His first major international championships were the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki. With 77.08 m he was the best German in fifth place, but was more than two meters behind the medals. At the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart, the field was divided into three classes. In the first three places were the representatives of the Soviet Union with widths of 82 meters and more, in positions four to nine with widths between 79.84 m and 75.36 m were the throwers from the two German states, followed by the representatives of the other countries. Gunther Rodehau was the best German with 79.84 m. In 1987 at the World Championships in Rome, Rodehau finished ninth with 76.18 m in the preliminary fight. A year later at the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 Rodehau threw 78.12 m in qualification. In the preliminary fight he was eliminated in twelfth place with 72.36 m. At the European Championships in Split in 1990 , the GDR national team played for the last time. Rodehau was fourth like in 1986, with 77.90 m he was more than two meters behind the third like in 1986 and this third was called Igor Nikulin as in 1986 .
At GDR championships Rodehau won the title twice: 1986 and 1990. In 1984, 1987 and 1988 he took second place behind Ralf Haber , in 1985 he was second behind Matthias Moder . On May 5, 1984 Rodehau threw the hammer in Celje at 80.20 m, making it the first thrower from the GDR to surpass the eighty-meter mark. After nineteen days, Rodehau was replaced as GDR record holder by Detlef Gerstenberg . Rodehau threw his second GDR record on August 3, 1985, with 82.74 m he threw the longest distance of his career. He not only replaced Matthias Moder as the GDR record holder, but also exceeded Christoph Sahner's all-German record by over a meter. As recently as 2012, Rodehau was fourth with its width on the all-time German best list behind Ralf Haber, Heinz Weis and Karsten Kobs .
Gunther Rodehau was 1.79 m tall and had a competition weight of 116 kg. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the reunification , the name of Rodehau was also found among the doped athletes. The trained car mechanic ended his sports career in 1992 and started at a car dealership.
literature
- Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society
- Fritz Steinmetz and Manfred Grieser : German records. Development from 1898 to 1991. Kassel 1992
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Eternal" list of the best in German athletics ( memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , www.leichtathletik.de September 27, 2012
- ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 183
- ↑ Gunther Rodehau in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rodehau, Gunther |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rodehau, Günther (spelling in many sources, but according to Amrhein he is called Gunther); Rodehau, Gerhard Gunther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meissen |