Hans-Jürgen Orthmann

Hans-Jürgen Orthmann
nation	Germany
birthday	5th February 1954 (age 66)
place of birth	Niederschelderhütte , Germany
size	190 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
discipline	Long distance running
Best performance	28: 02.92 min (10,000 m)
society	LG victory VfL Wehbach Zugzwang Wehbach Laufzwang Wippetal
status	resigned
Medal table
World Cross Country Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U20 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
World Cross Country Championships silver Paris 1980 Men  European Indoor Championships bronze Sindelfingen 1980 3000 m  Junior European Championships gold Duisburg 1973 3000 m

Hans-Jürgen Orthmann (born February 5, 1954 in Niederschelderhütte , Rhineland-Palatinate ) is a former German athlete and silver medalist at the 1980 World Cross Country Championships in Paris .

He was one of the leading German long-distance runners in the 1970s and 1980s. Hans-Jürgen Orthmann made a name for himself especially in cross-country runs . His trademark was also a yellow cap, which he often wore in cross races. He was called “tendon” because of his slim stature (1.90 m, 60 kg).

Because of the German Olympic boycott , Hans-Jürgen Orthmann could not take part in the race over 10,000 meters in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, although he had qualified for the Olympic Games on this route and would have been nominated.

biography

Cross World Championships

From 1975 to 1987 Hans-Jürgen Orthmann was nominated for the cross-country championships every year.

The first time he competed, when he was only twenty-one, he finished ninth.

As a result, Hans-Jürgen Orthmann was consistently placed in the top ten, the first twenty or the first thirty at the cross-country championships until 1984, in a competition over 12 km in which all those who rank in the endurance area are represented under the fifty and have names, be it over 5000 meters, 10,000 meters, 3000 meters obstacle or in road running, half marathons and marathons.

Importance of these competitions

Alberto Cova finished seventh in the 1982 World Cross Country Championships, which took place in Rome on March 21, and was European champion in the same season when he won his first 10,000-meter title in Athens on September 10.

Cova took part successfully in the Cross World Championships several times, but never achieved a better placement than seventh place.

In 1984, when Alberto Cova was Olympic champion in 10,000 meters on August 6 and a few months before that he was eleventh at the World Cross Country Championships on March 25 in New York, Carlos Lopes won the World Cross Country Championships in New York and on August 12 Marathon run at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in front of John Treacy , the 1978 and 1979 world cross country champion.

Success in 1980

On March 9, 1980, Hans-Jürgen Orthmann achieved his greatest success at the Cross World Championships in Paris over 12 km, which were held in front of 20,000 spectators in the Bois de Boulogne park on the Longchamp racecourse .

On the home stretch he overtook Nick Rose, who had long been the leader, and was sprinted 80 meters from the finish by Craig Virgin . Hans-Jürgen Orthmann was second, one second behind, three seconds ahead of Nick Rose.

Other activities

Hans-Jürgen Orthmann has often changed clubs, preferring smaller clubs. He even founded some very small clubs himself, such as Zugzwang Wehbach or Laufzwang Wippetal .

Orthmann also works as a football referee. In 1992 he showed six players of the club DJK Sportfreunde Eiserfeld the red card in a soccer game of the Siegerland B-Kreisliga up to the 60th minute. The game was then canceled.

Balance sheet

• 22-time German champion
• 41 international matches
• 13 participations in cross-country world championships in a row
• 1973: Junior European Champion (3000 meters)
• 1975: Military cross world champion
• 1980: 3rd place European Indoor Championships (3000 meters)

• 1972: Youth world record 3000 meters: 8: 06.8 min in Brussels
• 1980: Second at the World Cross Country Championships in Paris

Personal best

discipline	power	date	place
1500 meters	3: 42.3 min	September 18, 1976	trier
3000 meters	7: 48.09 min	September 1, 1976	Cologne
5000 meters	13: 30.53 min	July 6, 1982	Stockholm
10,000 meters	28: 02.92 min	May 29, 1985	Aachen
25 km road run	1:14:52 h	April 9, 1977	Paderborn
marathon	2:17:50 h	October 30, 1988	Frankfurt am Main

Web links

• Hans-Jürgen Orthmann in the database of World Athletics (English)
• IAAF World Cross Country Championships ( Memento from November 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), official result lists
• IAAF World Cross Country Championship 1980 ( Memento from October 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), list of results

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The fate that the main event of his career was canceled for "political" reasons shared Hans-Jürgen Orthmann with Craig Virgin, the winner of the 1980 World Cross Country Championships in Paris. Virgin ran four months later in Paris, of all places, in Paris, where he had become world cross-country champion, on July 17, 1980, one day before the start of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, over 10,000 meters with 27: 29.16 minutes, the second fastest ever run Time and was only slightly slower than Henry Rono in his world record with 27: 22.47 minutes on June 11, 1978 in Vienna. Epilog: Miruts Yifter won the Olympic final over 10,000 meters on July 27, 1980 in 27: 42.69 minutes.
2. ↑ Cross is the more common term for cross-country running. It is clear that a runner runs and does not drive or jump at World Cross Country Championships. Cross is the German short form for Cross Country and World Cross Country Championships are cross world championships.
3. ↑ Also or especially in the years in which Alberto Cova achieved further successes on the track over 10,000 meters such as world champion 1983, Olympic champion 1984 and European championship runner-up in 1986, he was tenth in the cross-world championships in March 1983, eleventh in 1984 and ninth in 1986.
4. ↑ ^{a b} 1980 World Cross Country Video on YouTube, accessed on August 3, 2013, with English comment, quote from 4:27 to 4:33 "a massiv crowd here at Longchamp, something like twenty-thousand people", quote from 6 : 59 to 7:01 "so the big names are all up there" i. e. Carlos Lopez, Léon Schots, John Treay, Craig Virgin, world cross-country champions in 1976,1977,1978,1979,1981,1984,1985 respectively.
5. ↑ Craig Virgin won the title again at the World Cross Country Championships in Madrid in 1981, when Ethiopians and Kenyans competed for the first time.
6. ↑ One second behind - with a running time of 37:02 min.
7. ^ IAAF World Cross Country Championships 1980 - MEN ( Memento from October 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), official results list of the 1980 World Cross Country Championships .
8. ↑ "The last 500 meters" of the 1980 World Cross Country Championships , video 1980 IAAF World Cross Country Championships (last 1/2 mile) on YouTube, accessed on August 3, 2013, with English comments, quotations from the passage from 0:46 to 2:39.
9. ↑ Orthmann was not accused of any wrongdoing at the subsequent arbitration hearing.