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

Vollmar (left) at the 1980 Summer Olympics awards ceremony in Moscow

	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
SURNAME	Vollmar, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German marksman and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 24, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bad Frankenhausen

[:0-1] ↑ ^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 .

[2] Berliner Zeitung , February 27, 1971, p. 4.

[3] 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).

[4] Neues Deutschland, August 22, 1980, p. 3.