Helmar Hommel

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Helmar Hommel (* 1947 ) is a German sports scientist .

Life

At the age of 16 Helmar Hommel started with athletics, he ran middle distance and then switched to all-around. Because of a severe muscle tear, he had to end his active sports career. He then completed a degree at the German Sport University Cologne . On January 1, 1973, he succeeded Toni Nett as the national trainer for teaching and was thus responsible for the conception and implementation of trainer training and further education and head of the documentation center.

One of Hommel's tasks was to look after the editors of the series The teaching of athletics with teaching materials. He was also responsible for recording technical studies by athletes at international competitions. In 1985 he was one of the founders of New Studies in Athletics , an international journal of the IAAF World Athletics Federation . From 1999 to 2006 he headed the DLV coaching school in Mainz and trained young coaches at the Academy of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) in Cologne.

In 2011, Hommel retired after working for the DLV for more than 38 years.

Evangelisti and Bayer

At the 1987 World Championships in Rome , there was a scandal because the long jump of the Italian athlete Giovanni Evangelisti was measured at 8.38 meters, with which he would have won the bronze medal. The Italian trainer Sandro Donati doubted the accuracy of the measurement and with the help of the recordings of the IAAF biomechanics group coordinated by Hommel it was possible to prove that Evangelisti had jumped a maximum of 7.80 meters.

When the German Sebastian Bayer jumped 8.71 meters at the European Indoor Championships on March 8, 2009 in Turin, doubts arose as to the accuracy of the measurement, because he had improved his personal best by 54 centimeters. Here, too, Hommel was able to provide clarification with his analysis. Based on his computer evaluation of Bayer's jump, it is "understandable that the width is roughly right," Hommel is quoted as saying.

Publications (selection)

As an author

  • Media in training and competition . Hofmann, Schorndorf 1991, ISBN 3-7780-8161-6 .
  • Preschool swimming in the DLRG . DLRG Presidium, Essen 1977, DNB  800924738 .

As editor

  • With Wolfgang Killing (ed.): National coaching forum “DLV power conference” November 15–16, 2008 in Potsdam . Sportverlag Strauss, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86884-495-5 .
  • With Wolfgang Killing (ed.): National coaching forum “DLV refrigeration conference” December 6–7, 2008 in Mainz . Sportverlag Strauss, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86884-496-2 .
  • German Athletics Association (Hrsg.): Children in athletics. Report from the congress of the German Athletics Association; Mainz, December 6-8, 1996 . Justus-von-Liebig-Verlag, Darmstadt 1997, ISBN 3-87390-126-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmar Hommel - Farewell after 38 years. Leichtathletik.de, March 23, 2011, accessed January 29, 2013 .
  2. ^ A b Michael Reinsch: The giant sentence from Turin. In: FAZ. March 11, 2009, accessed January 28, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Hommel, Helmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947