Hartwig Gauder

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Hartwig Gauder (1994)

Hartwig Gauder (born November 10, 1954 in Vaihingen an der Enz , Baden-Württemberg ; † April 22, 2020 in Erfurt ) was a German athlete and Olympic champion who - starting for the GDR and later reunified Germany - in the 1980s and 1990s Was one of the world's best 50km walkers for years . His greatest successes are winning titles at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, the 1986 European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart and the 1987 World Athletics Championships in Rome.

Career

Hartwig Gauder spent his early childhood in southern Germany until his family moved to the GDR in Ilmenau ( Thuringia ) in 1960 because his mother had inherited a house there. As a walker , he initially started on the 20 km route . He was GDR champion in 1975 and 1976 and in 1978 set a European record in 20,000-meter track walking (1: 24: 22.7 h). After only finishing seventh at the European Championships, he switched to the 50 km route. When he won his Olympic gold medal in Moscow in 1980, he was only contesting his fourth competition at this distance.

The 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles escaped him because of the boycott of the GDR.

After the World Athletics Championships in 1993 , he said goodbye to competitive sports, but remained active and went walking . In 1994 there was an initially inexplicable decrease in his performance, which in 1995 proved to be a virus infection of his heart - infected during a building survey as part of his architecture studies in a former poultry farm, as doctors later suspected. In 1996 he received an artificial heart and in 1997 a donor heart, with which he walked in the New York City Marathon barely two years later . Five years later, he fulfilled another dream: in August 2003, he was the first person to have had a heart transplant to climb the holy Fuji-san , Japan's highest mountain.

Hartwig Gauder was a graduate architect and worked from 2007 to 2013 at the Jena University Hospital and from 2013 in the Thuringian Ministry of Social Affairs, Family and Health . He was general secretary of the Association of Sportsmen for Organ Donation and 2nd Chairman of the Association for Children's Aid Organ Transplantation ; also patron of the German Sepsis Society , Advisory Board in the German Society for Prevention and Rehabilitation in Cardiology , member of the Board of Trustees of the German Sepsis Foundation and permanent guest of the German Organ Transplantation Foundation .

During his active time he started for SC Turbine Erfurt and trained with Siegfried Herrmann . At that time he was 1.86 m tall and weighed 71 kg.

He experienced one of his last public appearances in November 2019 on the MDR talk show "Riverboat" (see media library).

Hartwig Gauder died in April 2020 at the age of 65 after a heart attack . He was married and had a son.

successes

Honors

literature

  • The second chance or my life with the third heart , author: Angelika Griebner, Sportverlag Berlin , 1998
  • Nordic walking with rheumatism , Rübe Verlag Erfurt, 2005
  • Two lives, three hearts. From Olympus to Holy Mountain , author: Angelika Griebner, Bombus-Verlag Munich, 2007
  • Short biography for:  Gauder, Hartwig . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mourning for walking legend Hartwig Gauder , Leichtathletik.de, April 23, 2020
  2. ↑ Gerald Müller: Mourning for the legend Hartwig Gauder. April 22, 2020, accessed April 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ VSO campaign successful: Man with the "third heart" conquers Mount Fuji. In: tischtennis.de . July 23, 2003, accessed April 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Mourning for walking legend Hartwig Gauder , Leichtathletik.de, April 23, 2020
  5. ↑ What is Hartwig Gauder actually doing? , magazin-forum.de, April 17, 2020
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/12 p. 37
  7. ↑ 16 new members in the “Hall of Fame of German Sports”. In: hall-of-fame-sport.de. Archived from the original on July 17, 2016 ; accessed on April 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gauder, Hartwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Vaihingen an der Enz , Germany
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 2020
Place of death Erfurt