Hannes Koch (athlete)

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Johannes "Hannes" Koch (born February 12, 1935 in Hildesheim ; † December 26, 1994 in Berlin ) was a German athlete who was German walking champion in both the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany .

Koch only started competitive sports at the age of 20. Under the coach Willi Horlemann , the German champion in 1927 in the 25-kilometer road race, Koch managed to advance relatively quickly to the top at SC Einheit Berlin , and in 1957 he finished seventh at the GDR championships in 20-kilometer walking , his He won his first GDR championship title in 1959 in a 50 km walk . In 1960 he took second place behind Max Weber on the 50-kilometer route . Koch qualified for the all-German team at the Olympic Games in Rome over 20 km. In Rome he took 16th place. In 1961 Koch won the GDR title over 50 km and with third place over 20 km achieved his best placement at the GDR championships over the shorter distance. In 1962 Koch qualified again for the all-German team, this time over 50 km. At the European Championships in Belgrade in 1962 , he finished seventh.

After the European Championships, Koch did not return to the GDR, but moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he joined the athletics department of Eintracht Frankfurt . At the German Championships in 1963 he took third place over 20 km and behind Gert Jannsen second place over 50 km. He won the championship title in the team competition on both routes: together with Julius Müller and Bernhard Nermerich over 20 km, with Bernhard Nermerich and Claus Bartels over 50 km. From 1964 Koch joined Hannover 96 . He was German champion in 1964 and 1965 over 20 km and runner-up in 1965 over 50 km behind Karl-Heinz Pape ; with the team he was second behind Eintracht Frankfurt in 1964 and 1965, over 50 km the Hanoverians won the team title in 1965 with Hannes Koch, Hans-Jürgen Paul and Erich Rodermund . After that, Koch was no longer among the top German leaders, even if he remained active for over a decade and landed with the team from Hannover 96 several times in second or third place in the German championships.

After his career, Koch remained connected to athletics as a DLV junior trainer and walking statistician. In the summer of 1994 Hannes Koch had his first heart attack , after the second he died at Christmas of the same year.

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics. 1898-2005. Volume 2: Lehnertz - Zylka. 3rd edition, 12. – 21. Hundred. German Athletics Promotion and Project Society, Darmstadt 2005.
  • Fritz Steinmetz : 75 years of the German Athletics Championships (1898–1972) . Bartels and Wernitz, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-87039-956-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary by Jürgen Kollosche in DGLD-Bulletin No. 12, March 1995, page 119
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Hannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koch, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1994
Place of death Berlin