Hans-Joachim Pathus

Hans-Joachim Pathus (born September 10, 1936 in Senftenberg ) is a former German athlete from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) who coached German world-class walkers for 35 years.

Pathus was a trained miner when he was discovered by Jürgen Kollosche for athletics in the 1950s. As an active walker, he won the GDR championship title five times for the ASK Vorwärts Berlin in the 20 km walk , and with the team he won seven times. From 1957 to 1968 he was active in twelve international matches for the DVfL ; but he was never able to qualify for international championships.

In addition to his sporting career, Pathus had studied sport in Potsdam and from 1969 took over the training of his teammate Peter Frenkel , whom he led to Olympic victory in Munich in 1972 . His next world class goer was Ronald Weigel , who went to the world championship title in 1983 and three Olympic medals as a trainer at ASK Potsdam under Pathus . Pathus had just completed his doctorate on endurance in sport when the GDR sports landscape for the army sports clubs dissolved with the fall of the GDR . Pathus found a job with the DLV and worked as a national walking trainer from 1991 onwards. In 2004 he was replaced in this role by his son-in-law Ronald Weigel.

Pathus has been awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit several times , most recently in 1988 in silver.

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published via Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft, page 889

Web links

• GDR championships in 20 km walking
• Potsdam latest news: Olympic and world champions formed The Potsdam walker trainer Hans-Joachim Pathus will celebrate his 70th birthday tomorrow Article on September 9, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Athletics - GDR - Championships - Track. Men - Part 6. sport-komplett.de, accessed on June 28, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4