Gustav Schwenk

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Gustav Schwenk (born December 17, 1923 in Düsseldorf ; † January 11, 2015 there ) was a German sports journalist. In November 2009, he was the first to receive the World Athletics Journalist award from the IAAF .

Life

Schwenk began his journalistic career at the Sport-Informations-Dienst in Neuss, for which he worked for ten years from 1947 to 1957; he oversaw the sports of athletics, handball, wrestling and weightlifting. Since then, Schwenk worked as a freelance journalist for athletics and until 1982 also for handball. He wrote for years in the foosball sports magazine and in the specialist athletics magazine . From 1995 he was a member of the ZDF staff at major athletics events . From 1947 on, Schwenk was accredited at 63 German athletics championships, and from 1952 he accompanied the Summer Olympics. In 1966, Schwenk was the only Western European to report on the first European junior games in Odessa.

In 1959, Schwenk was the only German journalist who set Martin Lauer's world record in the 110-meter hurdles in Zurich . A year later, Schwenk was again the only German journalist in Zurich when Armin Hary set the world record in the 100-meter run of 10.0 seconds. After Hary had won the final in 10.0 seconds, the jury refused to sign the record because there was a false start. Schwenk advocated at the jury that Armin Hary received a second attempt. After Hary ran 10.0 seconds again in this second run, the world record was recognizable.

In addition to his work as a reporter, Schwenk was also active as a professional representative. In 1962 he co-founded the athletics section within the international sports press association AIPS . Since 1991 he has been a member of the IAAF Press Commission.

Gustav Schwenk received the DLV gold needle in 1959 , in 1984 the DLV honored him with the Carl Diem shield and in 1987 with the Heinz Cavalier Prize . After receiving the Plaque de Merite from the IAAF in 2007, the IAAF honored him as the first World Athletics journalist at its 2009 World Athletics Gala in Monte Carlo .

Schwenk died on January 11, 2015 at the age of 91 in his hometown of Düsseldorf.

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes. German Athletics Promotion and Project Society, Darmstadt 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Armin Hary: 10.0. Copress-Verlag Munich, 1961, page 13ff.
  2. ↑ Gustav Schwenk first World Athletics journalist (rp-online from November 22, 2009).
  3. ↑ Athletics journalist Gustav Schwenk has died. Report on the Internet portal T-online.de from January 17, 2015 (accessed on January 17, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Pan, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 2015
Place of death Dusseldorf