Harald Hein

Harald Hein medal table
fencing
Germany
Olympic games
	1976	Foil team
	1984	Foil team
World championships
gold	1973	Epee team
silver	1973	Foil team
silver	1977	foil
gold	1977	Foil team
bronze	1978	foil
bronze	1979	Foil team
gold	1983	Foil team
bronze	1985	foil
silver	1985	Foil team
German championships
gold	1969	foil
gold	1970	foil
gold	1971	foil
gold	1976	foil
gold	1979	foil

Harald Hein (born April 19, 1950 in Tauberbischofsheim ; † May 20, 2008 ibid) was a German fencer who belonged to the world class with a foil and a sword . He became multiple German champions and won gold medals at world championships and the Olympic Games.

Life

Harald Hein started for the Tauberbischofsheim fencing club and attended the Tauberbischofsheim commercial school . At 1.70 meters tall for a fencer, the rather small athlete belonged to the first generation of world-class fencers from Tauberbischofsheim. In 1969 he was junior runner-up with the sword. In 1970 he won the Frankenland tournament and was junior world champion with the foil. At the fencing world championships in 1973 he won gold with the epee team and came second with the foil team. In 1974 he suffered a serious training accident when he was stabbed to the lungs with a weapon, but was back on the planche shortly afterwards .

In 1976 Harald Hein was Olympic champion with the foil team at the Olympic Games in Montreal.

For this success he received the silver bay leaf.

In 1977 he was world champion with the foil team and second in the individual. In 1978 he was third in the individual with the foil, in 1979 he won bronze with the team. In 1983 Harald Hein became world champion with the team for the third time, and a year later at the Olympic Games in 1984 he won silver with the team. At the fencing world championships in 1985 he won bronze individually and silver with the team. Harald Hein was German individual champion with the foil in 1969 , 1970 , 1971 , 1976 and 1979 .

After his career as a world-class fencer, Hein trained top fencers like the Olympic champion Anja Fichtel . Since 1994 he has been the owner of the transport company HMT in Tauberbischofsheim. After a long illness, he died on May 20, 2008 of a brain tumor.

Awards

• Awarded the national foil fencing team in the 1977 team of the year election .

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Los Angeles 1984. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany , Frankfurt 1984

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 75 years of the Tauberbischofsheim Commercial School , StieberDruck GmbH, 113 pages, TBB 1997, p. 49
2. ↑ Stadt Landshut, Sportchronik 1874-76: ... 1976 Reception of the German Olympic team in October with Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in Bonn and award with the silver laurel leaf. ...