Harald Vollmar
Harald Vollmar (born April 24, 1947 in Bad Frankenhausen , Kyffhäuserkreis) is a former German marksman and trainer .
Sports career
From 1968 to 1980 Harald Vollmar took part in the Olympic Games four times in the Free Pistol discipline for the GDR team and won two silver medals and one bronze. During this time he was a member of the GST shooting club in Leipzig and was trained by Heinz Joseph together with the 1976 Olympic champion from Montreal, Uwe Potteck , and at the same time completed his training as a certified sports teacher.
After the 1980 Olympic Games of Moscow joined Vollmar from active competition sport and became East German head coach. In 1984 he went back to his hometown Bad Frankenhausen to look after his sick mother.
Vollmar tried again in 1988 to qualify for the Olympic Games , but those responsible in the GDR association were able to successfully talk him out of this. Instead, he took on a role in the world association ISSF .
After the reunification , Harald Vollmar went to Switzerland as a trainer . As a coach, he always had a good hand and knowledge of human nature to motivate the shooters. He trained Doris Burkhard and Markus Weber , who achieved personal bests under his guidance.
International success
Olympic games
discipline | space | |
Mexico City 1968 | Free pistol | 3. |
Munich 1972 | Free pistol | 5. |
Montreal 1976 | Free pistol | 2. |
Moscow 1980 | Free pistol | 2. |
World championships
- 1970 Free Pistol World Champion
European championships
- 1975 European Free Pistol Champion
- 1977 European air pistol champion
With 581 rings, Harald Vollmar holds the current German record with the free pistol. He set it up in Suhl in 1979 . Normally this would have been a world record, but world records are only recognized at World Championships or Olympic Games. A year later, Alexander Melentjew (Soviet Union) also shot 581 rings at the Olympic Games in Moscow and became the new world record holder.
Awards
- 1968: Honored Master of Sports
- 1969: Ernst Schneller Medal in gold
- 1971: Patriotic Order of Merit of the GDR in bronze
- 1972: Master of Sports in the GDR
- 1975: Badge of honor of the DSV of the GDR in gold
- 1976: Patriotic Order of Merit of the GDR in bronze
- 1980: Patriotic Order of Merit of the GDR in gold
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .
Web links
- Harald Vollmar in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Beck, Hans-Joachim: Sports shooting in the GDR from the beginning to 1990 . Ed .: Deutscher Schützenbund eV Wiesbaden 2002, p. 478 .
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , February 27, 1971, p. 4.
- ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, August 22, 1980, p. 3.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Vollmar, Harald |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German marksman and trainer |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Frankenhausen |