Horst Peter (volleyball player)

Horst Peter
portrait
Date of birth	April 24, 1946
place of birth	Leipzig , Soviet occupation zone
size	1.85 m
position	Universal
societies
-1963 1963-1972	SC Rotation Leipzig SC Leipzig
National team
1963-1972	GDR national team
successes
1964, 1965, 1967–1972 1966, 1967 1964 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972	GDR champion FDGB cup winner winner of the European championship cup 4th place in the World Cup Czechoslovakia 4th place in the European Championship Turkey 4th place in the Olympic Games Mexico Winner World Cup GDR Winner in the World Cup Bulgaria 4th place in the European Championship Italy Silver Olympic Games in Munich
As of April 13, 2015

Horst Peter (born April 24, 1946 in Leipzig ) is a former volleyball player from the GDR .

Peter started at SC Rotation Leipzig and from 1963 played for the successor club SC Leipzig . The 1.85 m tall player won the GDR championship title in 1964, 1965 and from 1967 to 1972.

From 1965 he played in the GDR national team and took 4th place at the 1966 World Cup and the 1967 European Championship . In 1968 Horst Peter took part in the Olympic Games in Mexico and again achieved fourth place. The GDR selection achieved its greatest success at the 1970 World Cup , when the title was won in Bulgaria. After another 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 .

Horst Peter was a trained locksmith and later became a railway technology engineer.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR. Neues Leben, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 , p. 341.

Web links

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