Hanns Jana

Hanns Jana (born July 18, 1952 in Tauberbischofsheim ) is a former German fencer who won an Olympic silver medal with the Degen team in 1976 for the Federal Republic of Germany.

Life

In 1971 Jana graduated from the Matthias-Grünewald-Gymnasium in Tauberbischofsheim . He fought for the Tauberbischofsheim fencing club .

successes

In 1975 Jana surprisingly won the world ranking tournament Monal in Paris. He was then nominated as a substitute for the German team at the Fencing World Championships in Budapest in 1975 , but was not used. In 1976 Jana finished sixth at the Monal and placed fourth at the German championship . After Alexander Pusch , Jürgen Hehn , Reinhold Behr and Volker Fischer , he was the fifth man in the German epee team at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal . He was only used in the preliminary round match against Austria, with 2-2 battles he helped in the 10-6 victory. In the Olympic final his teammates lost to the Swedes, but won the first ever Olympic medal by a German epee team.

For this success he received - together with the sword team - the silver bay leaf.

At the fencing world championships in Melbourne in 1979 , Hanns Jana fought with the German team in the final against the Soviet Union; Alexander Pusch, Elmar Borrmann , Christian Adrians and Jana won the silver medal. In 1980 these four fencers and Manfred Beckmann were on the line-up for the 1980 Olympic Games, but did not take part because of the Olympic boycott .

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1976

Web links

• Hanns Jana in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• World fencing championships epee

Individual evidence

1. ^ MGG TBB: fencing successes of the students / former students at the MGG. (No longer available online.) MGG TBB, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; Retrieved April 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Stadt Landshut, Sportchronik 1974-76: ... 1976 Reception of the German Olympic team in October with Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in Bonn and award with the silver laurel leaf.
3. ↑ 40 years of fencing club, anniversary part 4. (No longer available online.) FC Tauberbischofsheim , formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 12, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.