Hans Grodotzki
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| silver | 1960 Rome | 10,000 m |
Hans Grodotzki (born April 4, 1936 in Prussian Holland , East Prussia ) is a former German athlete from the GDR . Within the joint team of both German states , he won two silver medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome , in the 5000 and 10,000 meter run .
Life
Hans Grodotzki had to leave his hometown in 1945 with his parents and two siblings; the family came to Menteroda (then Sondershausen district , today Unstrut-Hainich district , Thuringia ). After school he worked as a miner in potash mining in the Volkenroda area and played football and table tennis in his free time. He began athletics training with SC activist Brieske-Senftenberg in 1954 after being noticed during a chance run. In the same year he signed up for three years in the barracked people's police in Erfurt , where he was able to train daily in the central sports club of the army under the guidance of Erich Bock. After the NVA was founded in 1956, Grodotzki started for ASK Vorwärts Erfurt .
At the age of 22, during his military service, he was assigned to Potsdam in 1958 , where the ASK Vorwärts Berlin branch was stationed in the airship port. At ASK Vorwärts Potsdam he began to train intensively under Curt Eins and became a member of the GDR national team after a year and a half.
On September 2, 1960, he won the silver medal in the 5000 meter run in 13: 44.6 minutes behind New Zealander Murray Halberg (13: 43.4 minutes). He won another silver medal on September 9, 1960 in a time of 28: 37.0 minutes behind Pyotr Bolotnikow ( USSR , 28: 32.2 minutes). He is the only German runner who won a medal in the 10,000 meter run at the Olympic Games : Of all German medium and long-distance runners, only Gunhild Hoffmeister managed to win two medals at the same Olympic Games.
In his active time he was 1.75 m tall and weighed 65 kg. In 1962, his career as an athlete was interrupted by a rupture of the Achilles tendon that he sustained in the eliminations for the European Championship, and in 1964 he finally ended it. Hans Grodotzki graduated in 1969 from the " Karl Liebknecht " University of Education in Potsdam as a qualified sports teacher and became a trainer. He was then a sports officer at ASK Vorwärts Potsdam until 1981 , and later a civilian employee in the National People's Army . After the end of the GDR he was employed by LAC Halensee Berlin .
In 1991 Hans Grodotzki received the Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize . He was honored by the DLV on behalf of all athletes from the GDR, as they had not belonged to the DLV until 1990. In the GDR he had received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.
Hans Grodotzki lives in Potsdam , was married to the gymnast Karin Jorzik († 1991) and has a daughter.
German records
3000 meters:
10,000 meters:
- 29: 08.8 min on July 17, 1959 in Oslo
- 28: 57.8 min on July 17, 1960 in Schweinfurt
- 28: 37.0 min on September 8, 1960 in Rome
Awards (selection)
- 1960: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://archiv.preussische-allgemeine.de/1961/1961_06_17_24.pdf
- ↑ http://www.maerkischeallgemeine.de/cms/beitrag/11883323/62449/Vor-Jahren-gewann-der-Potsdamer-Langstreckenlaeufer-Hans-Grodotzki.html ( 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.
- ^ German-German hero in uniform: Hans Grodotzki , accessed on September 3, 2017
literature
- Short biography for: Grodotzki, Hans . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Hans Grodotzki in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Grodotzki, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prussian Holland , East Prussia |