Hermann Salomon

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Hermann Salomon (born April 13, 1938 in Danzig ; † June 11, 2020 in Mainz ) was a German athlete and Olympic participant. After his sports career, Hermann Salomon worked as a sports scientist (focus on sports education ) at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .

Live and act

Active athlete

Hermann Salomon was an all-rounder and javelin thrower . In the pentathlon he was German champion in 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962 and 1964. In the javelin throw he won the championship title in 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967 and 1968. In 1959 and 1960 he started for Hamburger SV , then for USC Mainz .

His best length of 83.48 m, achieved on June 22, 1968 in Paris , was a German record.

In the javelin throw, he took part in the Olympic Games from 1960 to 1968, and in the European Championships in 1962 and 1966. In 1960, 1962 and 1968 he was twelfth each, but did not reach the final battle.

Teaching

At the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, he worked as a study assessor from 1968 to 1978 and then as a professor for applied sports education until his retirement in 2003.

He headed the foreign coaching school of the German Athletics Association (now the International DLV Academy ), founded in Mainz in 1974 on the initiative of Berno Wischmann , from 1984 to 1995 and taught there himself until 2015.

Honors

Hermann Salomon received the Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize in 1971 .

Works

  • The javelin: technique, training, competition . Bartels and Wernitz, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt / M. 1971. DNB 458799637

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Silke Bernhardt: Mourning for Olympic participants and athletics lecturer Prof. Hermann Salomon. In: Leichtathletik.de. German Athletics Marketing, June 15, 2020, accessed on June 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Detlef Kuhlmann: Prof. Hermann Salomon turns 80th Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund eV, April 13, 2018, accessed on June 28, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Hermann Salomon obituaries. In: VRM grief. VRM GmbH & Co. KG, Mainz, June 27, 2020, accessed on June 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Salomon, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and Olympian
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2020
Place of death Mainz