Hansjörg Kofink

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Hansjörg Kofink (born July 1, 1936 in Stuttgart ) is a German sports educator , athletics trainer and doping fighter .

Life

Kofink played handball  and fistball . In 1957 he achieved second place with the team from the University of Tübingen at the German University Championships of the General German University Sports Association in field and indoor handball. In 1987 he was German runner-up in fistball in the 50+ age group. From 1964 to 1970 he was regional trainer at the Württemberg Athletics Association, where he was responsible for the shot put and discus throw . From 1970 to 1972, Kofink was the national coach of the German Athletics Association (DLV), responsible for looking after the female shot putters . Although three athletes he supervised qualified for the Olympic Summer Games in Munich , they were not nominated by the DLV for the games because the DLV managers were too far from the world's best and the officials wanted to prevent the German shot put from being in Olympic competition were defeated by athletes from the east, Kofink told the Süddeutsche Zeitung in retrospect. "In protest against the concealment of doping practices, I ended my work as a national coach," Kofink was quoted as saying.

From 1979 to 1989 he was deputy chairman of the German Sports Teachers Association (DSLV), until 1990 chairman of the Baden-Württemberg branch of the association and from 1989 to 1999 DSLV federal chairman. He became honorary chairman of the regional association of the German Sports Teachers Association. Kofink was a co-founder of the European Association for Physical Education EUPEA.

In 1990 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, in 2007 he received the "Plaque for special achievements in sport and for the Olympic idea of ​​the German Olympic Society".

Kofink worked in Reutlingen as a high school teacher for German, English and sport and later as head of sport at the State Seminar for Didactics and Teacher Training in Tübingen . In 2000 he retired.

His wife Sigrun (née Grabert), who died in 2015, was a German shot put champion several times and took part in international matches and European championships for the FRG. The two married in 1962 and had three daughters. From the late 1960s, Kofink looked after his wife as a shot put coach.

In 2009 he was awarded the Heidi-Krieger-Medal for his fight against doping . He campaigned against doping practices in West Germany and, after the fall of the Wall, in all German sport, especially in athletics. In 2017 the Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote that Kofink had been "a pioneer in the anti-doping fight for decades". The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) described him as “a tireless advocate of clean sport and a determined anti-doping fighter from the very beginning in the Federal Republic of Germany”. In Kofink's opinion, athletes have come to doping through injuries, the performance of the world's best or stricter qualification standards of the German Athletics Association. In 2017, he said that politicians' demands for medals were "almost like encouraging doping in some disciplines". In 2013, in a conversation with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Kofink accused politicians of hypocrisy in the fight against doping.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Siegloch: Hansjörg Kofink - 80! In: Deutscher Sportlehrerverband eV, Landesverband Baden-Württemberg eV (Hrsg.): DSLV Info . tape 1/2016 , p. 5 .
  2. ↑ a b c Detlef Kuhlmann: Sports teacher and anti-doping fighter: Hansjörg Kofink on his 80th birthday. In: dosb.de. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Cycling4Fans - Doping: Hansjörg Kofink, portrait and texts. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Johannes Knuth: "Basically nothing has changed" . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on January 26, 2019]).
  5. ↑ a b On the death of Sigrun Kofink: "Sport gave me fantastic opportunities". In: German Athletics Marketing GmbH. January 26, 2019, accessed January 26, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Walter Mirwald: champion of the Olympic idea. In: Olympic Fire: magazine of the German Olympic Sports Confederation and the German Olympic Society; Issue 3, 2007. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Heidi-Krieger-Preis 2009 - doping-opfer-hilfe eV Accessed on January 26, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Hansjörg Kofink in conversation: "You could know everything" . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed January 26, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Kofink, Hansjörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports educator, athletics trainer and doping fighter
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart