Henry Lauterbach

Lauterbach jumps 8.35 m in the long jump in Erfurt in 1981

Henry Lauterbach (born October 22, 1957 in Buttstädt ) is a former German athlete from the German Democratic Republic (GDR), who was world class in both the high jump and the long jump .

Career

Lauterbach started for the SC Turbine Erfurt , for which his brother Wolfram also competed, the sixth of the 1974 European Championships in the long jump. Henry Lauterbach suddenly became known when he finished second in the GDR championships in 1976 both in the high jump behind Rolf Beilschmidt and in the long jump behind Frank Wartenberg . In the high jump, he immediately qualified for the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal with 2.18 m , but in Montreal he missed the final with 2.13 m. In the following years Lauterbach concentrated largely on the high jump. In 1977 and 1978 he was runner-up in the GDR behind Rolf Beilschmidt, in the hall he took second place behind Beilschmidt in 1978, and in 1979 Lauterbach became the hall champion. At the European Championships in Prague in 1978 , Lauterbach jumped 2.26 m and took fourth place, two centimeters and one place behind Beilschmidt. At the European Indoor Championships in 1979 in Vienna, he finished fifth with 2.21 m. In 1980 Lauterbach jumped to second place for the fourth time at the GDR championships, this time defeated by Gerd Wessig . At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, Lauterbach crossed 2.29 m and was fourth-placed only as the third-best GDR jumper, because Gerd Wessig won gold and Jörg Freimuth bronze.

At the GDR championships in 1981 Lauterbach took third place in the high jump behind Beilschmidt and Freimuth. After a long break he was back in the long jump and was able to place second behind Uwe Lange . In the 1982 indoor season, Lauterbach won the GDR championship title in the long jump. He also competed in the long jump at the European Indoor Championships in Milan and won the title with a 7.86 m and three centimeter lead over the Swiss Rolf Bernhard . In 1983 he finished second again at the GDR indoor championships behind Frank Nowak .

In 1977 Henry Lauterbach set Rolf Beilschmidt's GDR record with 2.24 m, when he jumped his personal best a year later with 2.30 m, Beilschmidt's record was already 2.31 m. In 1981 he managed a long jump in Erfurt to 8.35 m. He was 19 centimeters behind Lutz Dombrowski's width at the 1980 Olympic victory, but behind Dombrowski, Sebastian Bayer , Christian Reif and Frank Paschek , Lauterbach and Josef Schwarz are in fifth place on the all-time German best list. (Last updated 2012)

Henry Lauterbach had a competition weight of 81 kg with a height of 1.90 m. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the fall of the Wall , the name of Lauterbach was found among the doped athletes.

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
• Fritz Steinmetz and Manfred Grieser : German records. Development from 1898 to 1991. Kassel 1992

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Open air: Men / Women ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), www.leichtathletik.de September 27, 2012
2. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 182

Web links

• Henry Lauterbach in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Henry Lauterbach in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )