Helmut Schreiber (athlete)

Helmut Schreiber
nation	Germany
birthday	June 26, 1955
place of birth	Heidenheim an der Brenz
job	doctor
Career
discipline	Javelin throw
Best performance	92.72 m
society	Heidenheimer SB USC Heidelberg
status	resigned
Medal table
Universiade 1 × 1 × 0 × German championships 1 × 5 × 1 ×
Universiade gold Mexico City 1979 Javelin throw silver Edmonton 1983 Javelin throw  German championships bronze Hamburg 1977 Javelin throw silver Cologne 1978 Javelin throw silver Stuttgart 1979 Javelin throw silver Hanover 1980 Javelin throw gold Gelsenkirchen 1981 Javelin throw silver Munich 1982 Javelin throw silver Bremen 1983 Javelin throw

Helmut Schreiber (born June 26, 1955 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ) is a former German athlete who has been successful in javelin throwing since the 1970s .

Athletic career

After initial successes as an all-rounder, he specialized in javelin throwing under coach Hans Knoth and became German youth champion in 1973. At the European Championships in Prague in 1978 , he was fifth (76.66 m - 71.84 m - 82.84 m - 77.88 m - 82.48 m - 83.58 m). A year later he won the Universiade in Mexico City with 88.68 m. On September 21, 1980 he started the "Eight Nations Cup" in Tokyo and won with 87.66 m ahead of Olympic champion Dainis Kūla . At the European Cup qualification in 1979 in Ulm, he threw even more with 92.72 m. In the top ten list of the German Athletics Association (DLV) with the old spear (before 1986), Schreiber is in fifth place with this width. He became German champion in 1981 , in 1980 he was second in the world best list, but missed the Moscow Olympic Games because of the boycott of Western countries . At the Universiade held in Edmonton in 1983 , he secured his second international medal with silver. Shortly before the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles (USA), he ended his athletics career after he was unable to qualify due to an injury.

Professional career

After passing high school in 1972, Schreiber went to Mannheim (until 1977) and then to Heidelberg, where he studied medicine and psychology. From 2000 he was a DLV team doctor and looked after the athletes at three Olympic Games, four world championships, three European championships, numerous indoor world and European championships as well as at nine universities. In 2014, the specialist in orthopedics was awarded the additional designation of sports medicine and chiropractic as " Sports Doctor of the Year".

literature

• Helmut Schreiber in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Helmut Schreiber , in: Internationales Sportarchiv 14/1981 from March 23, 1981, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bulletin 2nd quarter 1982 of Heidenheimer SB , p .: 9, 10 years HSB
2. ↑ "Eternal" list of the best in German athletics (as of March 1, 2020). (PDF) German Athletics Association , accessed on May 21, 2020 .  (PDF; 486 kB)
3. ↑ As once on the cinder track. Heidenheimer SB , accessed on May 21, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Doping allegations of the doctor: DLV boss defends himself. ntv , July 3, 2014, accessed May 21, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Helmut Schreiber is "Sports Doctor of the Year 2014". German Athletics Association , July 3, 2014, accessed on May 21, 2020 .