Hans Liesche

Hans Liesche
Hans Liesche attempting the 1912 Olympic Games
nation	German Empire
birthday	October 11, 1891
place of birth	Hamburg ,  Germany
size	188 cm
Weight	67 kg
date of death	March 30, 1979
Place of death	Berlin , Germany
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	High jump: 1.91 m
society	Eimsbüttel TV
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Stockholm 1912 high jump

Hans Liesche (born October 11, 1891 in Hamburg , † March 30, 1979 in Berlin ) was a German athlete and Olympic medalist .

At the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 , Liesche achieved second place in the high jump with a personal best of 1.91 m, behind the American gold medalist Alma Richards , who also crossed 1.91 m. Liesche defeated world record holder George Horine in third place with 1.89 m, who a few weeks before the Olympic Games with a new style that went down in sports history as a western roller , was the first person to jump over two meters.

Liesche won his first German championship title in 1911 and repeated this success in 1912, 1913 and 1915 after the German championships were canceled in 1914. In 1918 he finished second and in 1919 he was third.

Hans Liesche started for Eimsbüttel TV . In his playing days he was 1.88 m tall and weighed 67 kg. He spent the last years of his life in West Berlin .

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society

Web links

• Hans Liesche in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )