Horst Hagen (volleyball player)

Horst Hagen
portrait
Date of birth	January 10, 1950
place of birth	Kuhsdorf , GDR
size	1.94 m
position	attack
societies
1965-1969 1969-1976	SC Tractor Schwerin SC Leipzig
National team
1970-1975	GDR national team
successes
1969-1976 1970 1971 1972 1974 1975	GDR master Winner World Cup Bulgaria 4th place European Championship Italy silver Olympic Games Munich 4th place World Cup Mexico 7th place EM Yugoslavia
As of April 13, 2015

Horst Hagen (born January 10, 1950 in Kuhsdorf , today Groß Pankow (Prignitz) ) is a former volleyball player from the GDR .

Hagen started playing volleyball in 1965. In 1969 he moved from SC Traktor Schwerin to SC Leipzig . The 1.94 m tall player won the GDR championship from 1971 to 1976.

From 1970 he played in the GDR national team and was immediately involved in the greatest success of the GDR selection when the title was won at the 1970 World Cup in Bulgaria. After a fourth place at the European Championships in 1971 , the GDR team reached the final at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and received the silver medal after the final defeat against the Japanese team . Hagen was also part of the GDR squad at the 1974 World Cup , which reached fourth place. In 1975 he finished seventh with the GDR selection at the 1975 European Championships .

Horst Hagen was a trained telecommunications mechanic and later became an engineer for vehicle technology. After completing his studies, he was head of the Central Office for Scientific Technology at the DHfK .

literature

• Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR. Neues Leben, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 , p. 154.

Web links

• Horst Hagen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Forgotten high flyers (PDF file; 548 KByte)
• Volleyball world champion
• GDR champions in volleyball