Herbert Schade (athlete)

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Schade (third from right) in the 5000-meter run at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

Herbert Schade (born May 26, 1922 in Solingen ; † March 1, 1994 ) was a German athlete and Olympic medalist who was among the world's best in long-distance running in the 1950s .

Herbert Schade was an enthusiastic runner even as a teenager, benefited by his habit of continuously delivering bread as an apprentice baker. The war interrupted his athletic development, and in 1947 he started again with training. In 1948 he became German champion for the first time - in the 5000 meter run in 15: 10.48 minutes. In total, Schade won eight German championship titles and three runner-up championships on the two long-distance distances over 5,000 and 10,000 meters as well as the forest run . On August 10, 1951, he was the first German to run the 10,000 meters under half an hour (29: 55.4 min) in Stockholm. He joined the Arthur Lamberts running school , which - like in the past at the Wittenberg running school - demanded extensive training from his athletes (Lambert: You can only learn to run by running ).

Herbert Schade's greatest success was winning the bronze medal in the 5000 meter run at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki . He later became lifelong friends with the winner of this race, Emil Zátopek . In 1956 he started in the joint German team for the Federal Republic at the Olympic Games in Melbourne and was twelfth in the 5000-meter run and ninth in the 10,000-meter run . For this achievement he received the silver bay leaf on October 27, 1952 .

In 1955 Schade received the Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize awarded by the German Athletics Association (DLV) . In 1958 he ended his active career and was then a sports advisor at the Solingen administration. Schade started for Grün-Weiß Solingen until 1949 , then for two years for Barmer TV and then for Solingen LC . The sports facility on Schaberger Straße was named after him (Herbert-Schade-Sportanlage) and a street in a new building area on Solinger Krahenhöhe . During his competition time he weighed 65 kg at 1.79 m height.

Schade's son Michael was the management spokesman of Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH from September 2013 to June 2018 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnd Krüger (1998). Many roads lead to Olympia. The changes in the training systems for middle and long distance runners (1850-1997), In: N. GISSEL (Hrsg.): Sportliche Leistungs im Wandel. Hamburg: Czwalina, pp. 41 - 56.
  2. ↑ Herbert Schade: As a track and field athlete in 5 continents . Bartels & Wernitz, Berlin 1958
  3. ↑ Information given to the Bundestag by the Federal Government on September 29, 1973 - printed matter 7/1040 - Annex 3, pages 54 ff., Here page 65
  4. ↑ “Raging” farewell present for Michael Schade ; bayer04.de, June 28, 2018, accessed July 1, 2018

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personal data
SURNAME It's a shame, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and Olympic medalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1994
Place of death Solingen