Hans Schenk (athlete)

Hans Schenk
nation	BR Germany
birthday	January 1, 1936
place of birth	Muldszen ,  German Empire
size	185 cm
Weight	85 kg
date of death	January 19, 2006
Place of death	Leverkusen ,  Germany
Career
discipline	Javelin throw
Best performance	78.12 m
society	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Medal table
German championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
German championships silver Düsseldorf 1961 75.07 m

Hans Schenk (born January 1, 1936 in Muldszen , East Prussia , † January 19, 2006 in Leverkusen ) was a German javelin thrower .

After Schenk fled East Prussia in 1945, he settled in Leverkusen with his mother and five siblings. There he joined TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen .

At the European Athletics Championships in Stockholm in 1958 he was seventh and twelfth at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

He set his personal best of 78.12 m on August 30, 1964 at the domestic German Olympic qualification in Jena .

Schenk completed an apprenticeship as a commercial clerk, but later worked as a lecturer at the German Sport University Cologne . As a trainer, he looked after Klaus Wolfermann and Klaus Tafelmeier, among others, and was also a fitness and conditioning trainer for the soccer team of 1. FC Köln for several years .

Web links

• Hans Schenk in the trackfield.brinkster.net database (English)
• Hans Schenk in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )