Hermann Magerl

Hermann Magerl (born January 13, 1949 in Obertraubling ) is a former German athlete . His greatest success was fourth place in the high jump at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

Life

Magerl began his sporting career at TSV Abensberg and then moved to TSG Süd Regensburg . In 1970 and 1971, the medical student joined TSV 1860 Munich before moving back to Regensburg, where he started for the LG Regensburg .

In 1968 Magerl was on the squad for the Junior European Games in Leipzig, which were then boycotted by the DLV . After he had taken second place behind Ingomar Sieghart at the German Championships in Düsseldorf in 1969 with 2.12 m , he was in the DLV line-up for the European Championships in Athens in 1969 , but was not allowed to compete again after the DLV because of the dispute over start permission from Jürgen May withdrew all individual starters. In July 1970 Magerl set Gunther Spielvogel's German record in Stuttgart with 2.17 m and won the German championship title two weeks later with 2.12 m. After Thomas Zacharias from Mainz had increased the German record to 2.20 m, Magerl was able to set the record again in July 1971. At the German championships in 1971 Gunther Spielvogel won ahead of Lothar Doster and Magerl. At the highlight of the season, the European Championships in Helsinki in 1971 , Doster and Spielvogel were eliminated from the qualification. Magerl was the only German high jumper to reach the final, but only finished twelfth with 2.11 m.

In 1972 Magerl won his second German championship title with 2.15 m. In the run-up to the Olympic Games, he increased the German record to 2.22 m, but Stefan Junge from the GDR had increased the all-German record on June 10 in Potsdam to 2.23 m. In the Olympic final on September 10th, Jüri Tarmak from the Soviet Union won with 2.23 m ahead of Stefan Junge and the American Dwight Stones , who both crossed 2.21 m. With his height of 2.18 m, Hermann Magerl took fourth place. A week after the Olympic final, Magerl increased the German record to 2.24 m in Cham. It was not until five years later that this record was first increased by Rolf Beilschmidt from the GDR as the all-German record and shortly afterwards by Carlo Thränhardt as the DLV record to 2.27 m. Magerl finished fourth again in 1973 at the German Championships, after which his sporting career ended.

At a height of 1.88 m, Magerl's competition weight was 89 kg and he jumped in the straddle style. The doctor of medicine has been running his own practice for general and sports medicine in Obertraubling for decades. In 2009 the practice was relocated to Regensburg.

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898-2005. 2 volumes, Darmstadt 2005 (published by Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft)
• Fritz Steinmetz and Manfred Grieser : German records. Development from 1898 to 1991. Kassel 1992

Web links

• Hermann Magerl in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )