Hartmut Briesenick

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Hartmut Briesenick, 1968
Briesenick 1970 at the athletics student championships of the GDR

Hartmut Briesenick (born March 17, 1949 in Luckenwalde , Brandenburg ; † March 8, 2013 ) was a German athlete who, starting for the GDR , was one of the world's best shot putters in the 1970s . He won bronze at the Olympics and was twice European champion.

Life

Briesenick was GDR champion in the hall four times in a row from 1969 to 1972. He won outdoors in 1970, 1971, 1973 and 1974. From 1970 to 1972 he was European indoor champion three times in a row . His greatest successes are the bronze medal at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and the victories at the European Championships in 1971 and 1974:

Hartmut Briesenick started for SC Dynamo Berlin and trained with Willi Kühl . In his playing days he was 1.91 m tall and weighed 116 kg. In the documents on doping in the GDR that became public after the reunification , the name of Briesenick was also found among the doped athletes.

In 1971 and 1974 Briesenick received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

In 1978 he ended his sports career and worked as a junior coach at SC Dynamo Berlin. He was married three times, with the national volleyball player Marion Riebel, Undine Briesenick (son and daughter) and the Olympic shot put champion Ilona Slupianek (daughter). After reunification he worked for a sports equipment company.

literature

  • Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .
  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society

Web links

Commons : Hartmut Briesenick  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 181
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , December 4, 1971, p. 4
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , November 30, 1974, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Briesenick, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and Olympic medalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Luckenwalde , Brandenburg
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 2013