Helmut Dreher

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Helmut Dreher (born June 4, 1932 in Idar ; † May 24, 1984 in Idar-Oberstein ) was a track and field athlete who became vice European champion in 1954 with the 4 x 400 meter relay from the Federal Republic of Germany.

Dreher started for the Idar-Oberstein gymnastics club until 1953 , and from 1954 he competed for Rot-Weiß Koblenz . In 1952 and 1953 he was German junior champion in the 400-meter run . At the first German indoor championships, which were held in Frankfurt in 1954, Dreher won his first championship title in the adult class with the Koblenz four-by-three-round relay. At the German Open Air Championships he took third place over 400 meters in 48.8 seconds, the Koblenz club relay with Wolfgang Schmidtke, Günther Steines , Hubert Huppertz and Helmut Dreher won in 3: 16.9 minutes. At the European Championships in 1954 in Bern, the German relay team with Hans Geister , Helmut Dreher, Heinz Ulzheimer and Karl-Friedrich Haas finished second behind the French in 3: 08.8 minutes. In 1955, Dreher took second place behind Albert Radusch at the German Indoor Championships . At the open-air championships, the Koblenz relay took second place behind the Krefeld relay with the final runner Hans Geister. Dreher ran the 400 meters in 47.9 s in Freiburg on October 15th, his personal best. In 1956, the Koblenz 4 x 400 meter relay was once again German runner-up behind the OSV Hörde .

Helmut Dreher was a trained agate drill.

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society
  • Heiner Göttke, Otto Verhoeven: Helmut Dreher . in DGLD Bulletin No. 49, Neuss 2007, page 18