Horst Beyer

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Horst Beyer (born January 5, 1940 in Neumünster ; † December 9, 2017 in Hamburg ) was a German athlete who - starting for the Federal Republic of Germany - finished sixth in the decathlon at the 1964 Olympic Games and won bronze at the 1966 European Championships .

career path

After his active career, Horst Beyer worked in Wolfsburg as head of the high-level training center there, then went to Nigeria as a foreign expert on behalf of the federal government from 1976 to 1980 , after which he became a high school teacher in Frankfurt am Main .

In August 2017, Horst Beyer published a book entitled " From Athlete to Poet ."

Athletic career

Beyer came to Wolfsburg at the beginning of the sixties and competed in the supreme discipline of athletics, the decathlon, from 1963 to 1972 for Germany 13 international matches.

At the Olympic Games in 1964 he took sixth place (7647 points = 7488 points according to the 1985 table: 11.2 s - 7.02 m - 14.32 m - 1.90 m - 49.8 s - 15.2 s - 45.17 m - 3.80 m - 58.17 m - 4: 23.6 min.) Beyer won bronze in the decathlon at the European Championships in Budapest ( Hungary ) in 1966 (7562 points = 7390 points according to the 1985 table : 11.5 s - 6.89 m - 14.73 m - 1.88 m - 49.5 s - 14.9 s - 41.80 m - 4.10 m - 50.36 m - 4:17, 9 min.) At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich he had to give up injured after the third discipline.

In 1970 and 1972 Beyer was German champion in the decathlon.

He achieved his personal best in the decathlon in 1972 with 7895 points.

During his competition time, Beyer was 1.96 m tall and weighed 96 kg.

Honors

In 1972 Beyer was awarded the Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize. For his services to sport in Lower Saxony , he was accepted into the gallery of honor of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History . The city of Wolfsburg honored him in 1972 with the city plaque in silver.

Club affiliations

Beyer was an honorary member of VfL Wolfsburg and during his active time as a track and field athlete also started for Hamburger SV and USC Mainz .

Trivia

In his old age, Horst Beyer lived in a senior citizens' residential complex in Hamburg-Wandsbek . After a long illness, he died on December 9, 2017 in a Hamburg hospital.

Fonts

  • From athlete to poet. Olympic decathlon in verse. Poems - Autobiographical Stories - Thoughts ... heard and felt . tredition, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7439-0221-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d VfL Wolfsburg: Mourning Horst Beyer , December 11, 2017, accessed December 12, 2017
  2. ^ Obituary from the city of Wolfsburg in Wolfsburger Nachrichten . Edition of December 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ Pamela Ruprecht: Flash News of the Day: "Decathlon Olympian Horst Beyer dies" ( Memento from December 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Leichtathletik.de, December 12, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Beyer, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumunster
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 2017
Place of death Hamburg