Hansjörg Kunze

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hansjörg Kunze won the GDR championship over 10,000 meters ahead of Werner Schildhauer in 1984
Hansjörg Kunze, 1981

Hansjörg Kunze (born December 28, 1959 in Rostock ) is a former German athlete and Olympic medalist who was successful in long-distance running for the GDR .

Life

Hansjörg Kunze had a competition weight of 63 kg with a height of 1.79 m. His greatest success was the bronze medal in the 5000 meter run at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , for which he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. He started for the SC Empor Rostock .

He achieved a spectacular victory in Rieti ( Italy ) on September 9, 1981 , when he set a European record in the 5000 meter run with 13: 10.40 minutes and defeated the Kenyan Henry Rono , who dominated this season, in this competition . His long-term athletic rival in the GDR was Werner Schildhauer from Halle (Saale) .

Kunze has been a journalist since the end of his sporting career. Among other things, he worked in a PR agency for a sports shoe manufacturer, as a reporter for the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart in 1993 , as a radio and television reporter for a regional broadcaster and most recently as the press spokesman for the shipping company AIDA Cruises . In 2004 he was involved in the Olympic application of the Hanseatic city of Rostock (for the sailing competitions with the main venue Leipzig).

Hansjörg Kunze has been married since 1981 and has two children.

Sporting successes

  • Third in the 5000-meter run and sixth in the 10,000-meter run at the 1988 Summer Olympics
  • Participants in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow (eliminated in the 5,000m semifinals)
  • Third in the world championship in 1983 and 1987 in the 10,000 meter run
  • World Cup, 5000 meter run: 2nd place in 1981, 4th place in 1979
  • European Cup, 5000 meter run: 3rd place 1981, 4th place 1983
  • Junior European Championships, 3000 meters: 3rd place in 1977
  • GDR championships: 1st place in the 5,000 meter run in 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1st place in the 10,000 meter run in 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988. Together with victories in other age groups, he won a total of 15 Title.
  • Best performance in the 10,000 meter run: 27: 26.0 min on July 2, 1988 in Oslo
  • Times run in age group Youth B (under 18 years) that are still held as German records (as of December 31, 2004):
2000 m obstacle: 5: 35.11 min, July 18, 1976 in Erfurt
5000 m: 14: 20.2 min, August 8, 1975 in Banksy Bystrica
3000 m: 7: 56.4 min, June 27, 1976 in Karl-Marx-Stadt

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4
  2. ↑ www.aida.de

Web links

Commons : Hansjörg Kunze  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Kunze, Hansjörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and Olympic medalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock