Hans-Joachim Hartnick

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Hartnick (left) during the peace trip in 1977

Hans-Joachim Hartnick (born January 12, 1955 in Wormlage ) is a German former road cyclist and trainer from the GDR . His greatest successes were the victory in the Peace Drive in 1976, the world championship title in 1979 and the Olympic silver medal in the team time trial in 1980 , for which he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

Athletic career in youth

Hans-Joachim Hartnick began cycling in 1966 at the age of eleven at BSG Chemie Annahütte . Before that he was a track and field athlete , his brother Roland already competed in bicycle races and got him enthusiastic about this sport. In 1968 he was second in the GDR championship in cyclo-cross and took part in the GDR championship in street individual student A. In 1969 he won the GDR championship road team student A with Chemie Annahütte , won the prize of the “ Lausitzer Rundschau ” and the student A selection race in Bischofswerda . Hans-Joachim Hartnick won a total of eight GDR championship titles in the youth classes on the track , on the road and in cross-country races. 1969 was his club delegation to SC Cottbus .

With SC Cottbus, Hartnick was GDR champion in youth B in 1970 in the road team race and in the track foursome. In the road individual, he finished ninth in the GDR championship, and fourth in the cross-country race. In 1971 he was able to repeat both team successes and was also GDR champion in the street singles. At the junior rally in Neugersdorf , Hartnick reached seventh place and won a stage. In 1972 he won four GDR championship titles - in cross-country, in street singles, in street team races and in all-around competitions. In the track individual pursuit and the track team pursuit, he won a silver medal. He won the overall ranking of the four-stage race in Cottbus, where he took all four stage wins, was second in a junior criterion in Romania and also second in the junior rally in Neugersdorf.

In 1973 Hartnick won the GDR championship in the road team race of youth A. The four-man SC Cottbus (with Hartnick, Bernd Drogan , Hans-Peter Wehe and Michael Max) set a new GDR record over 75 kilometers in 1:38: 09.8 hours. He again won the four-stage race of the juniors in Cottbus, also with four stage wins. He won four of five stages of the international junior rally in Neugersdorf and took the overall victory. At the youth competition of friendship in Miskolc , Hungary , Hartnick won a bronze medal in the individual race and, together with Drogan, Wehe and Max, the silver medal in the road team race.

Men

In 1973, Hans-Joachim Hartnick, still starting for SC Cottbus, competed in the first men's races. He took third place in “Around the Scharmützelsee ” and also third place in “Around Langenau”. At the Tour of Bulgaria Hartnick won a stage (7th stage from Sliven to Chaskowo ) and was eleventh in the overall standings. In 1974 he was the best young driver together with Wolfgang Gansert and won the GDR tour , which he also won a year later. In 1974 he won the Harz Tour together with Wolfgang Gansert , which was also the 6th and 7th stage of the GDR tour that year .

Like almost all road drivers in the GDR, Hartnick also started on the track in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in Berlin. There he won the "International Two-Team Championship" in 1977 with Siegbert Schmeißer as a partner. At the end of the 1981 season he won the longest amateur race in Europe, Prague – Karlovy Vary – Prague.

He was bid farewell to sports on December 10, 1982 in front of a sold out house on the track in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in Berlin.

Hartnicks coaches at SC Cottbus included Manfred Nitschke and Eberhard Pöschke.

Palmarès (selection)

  • 1974: Bronze team time trial (100 km) (world championship) and GDR champion (individual)
  • 1974: Winner GDR tour
  • 1975: Second in the peace drive and GDR champion (individual and criterion)
  • 1975: Winner GDR tour
  • 1976: GDR champion (criterion)
  • 1976: Peace Prize Winner
  • 1978: GDR champion (criterion)
  • 1979: World champion team time trial (100 km)
  • 1980: Silver at the Olympic Games team time trial (100 km)
  • 1980: GDR cross-country champion in Hainichen

Trainer / professional

After his active career, he worked as a national trainer in the Association of German Cyclists for the area of ​​track endurance for women / juniors. In 2006 he went to China to coach the Chinese women's national team . After his return he took up a job as a sports teacher in his hometown Cottbus.

Private

Hartnick is married and has one daughter.

Web links

Commons : Hans-Joachim Hartnick  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Trainer: Wolfram Lindner ; see Volker Kluge , Olaf W. Reimann:  Lindner, Wolfram . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 4
  3. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 2/1975 . Berlin 1975, p. 3 .
  4. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 32/1972 . Berlin 1972, p. 2 .
  5. ↑ Der Radsportler, November 2, 1973, page 2, Personal details: Hans-Joachim Hartnick , publisher: German Cycling Association of the GDR, Berlin, 1973
  6. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 37/1974 . Berlin 1974, p. 3 .
  7. ^ Robert Bakalář, Jaroslav Cihlář, Jiří Černý: Zlatá kniha cyclistiky . Olympia, Prague 1984, p. 180 (Czech).
  8. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 51/1982 . Berlin 1982, p. 2 .
  9. ↑ Hans-Joachim Hartnick in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
personal data
SURNAME Hartnick, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Wormlage