Helmut Bellingrodt
Helmut Ernesto Bellingrodt Wolff (born July 10, 1949 in Barranquilla ) is a Colombian sports shooter . He was Colombia's first ever two-time Olympic medalist .
family
Bellingrodt is the son of the entrepreneur Ernesto Antonio Bellingrodt from Barranquilla and Anneliese Angela Wolff from Hamburg . He has three siblings Hanspeter, Helga María and Horst Federico.
career
Beginnings
He made his first experiences in 1959 at a Barranquilla police firing range. In the same year he also took part in the national championships as a representative of his department , Atlántico , in the youth ranking. He did very badly in last place. His coach at the time was his father. In 1966 he was Colombian runner-up, while the title went to his brother Hanspeter Bellingrodt .
His first international appearance was in 1969 in the discipline of shooting at a target from 50 meters away. As with his first national appearance, he did poorly here and came in penultimate place. The following year he was at the World Championships in Phoenix with eighth place most successful Latin American .
High phase
His greatest success was the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , where he was the first Colombian athlete to ever win a medal. With 565 points out of 600 possible with 60 targets shot, he achieved the silver medal and only had to admit defeat to Yakiv Schelesnjak .
He won his first gold medal in 1974, more or less unnoticed by the Colombian public, at the World Championships in Thun . In his second Olympic participation in 1976 in Montreal , he only reached sixth place, but was able to repeat his success in Munich in 1984 in Los Angeles and won Olympic silver for a second time, this time behind the Chinese Li Yuwei . A year earlier, he also won the gold medal at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas .
From 1995 he switched to the discipline Skeet , where he was repeatedly a Senior Master at the Miami Cup.
swell
Biographical page of the Comité Olímpico Colombiano
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Bellingrodt Wolf (Spanish) from July 6, 2012, accessed on March 16, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bellingrodt, Helmut |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Helmut Ernesto Bellingrodt Wolff (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Colombian marksman, Olympian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barranquilla |