Horst Stelzner

Horst Stelzner in 1955 at the German Youth Championship in Frankfurt

Horst Stelzner will be honored for the season by the then member of the Bundestag and later Chancellor Helmut Schmidt .

Horst Stelzner (born July 29, 1936 in Hamburg ) is a former German athlete and German pentathlon champion . After his sports career, Horst Stelzner worked as a qualified engineer in Germany and abroad. Horst Stelzner was an all-rounder and started for Hamburger SV . In the pentathlon he was German champion in the team classification in 1959, 1961 and 1962.

successes

German Athletics Championships :

• 1958 : 5th place in the decathlon in the team classification together with Jürgen Hillermann and Klaus-Dieter Emmentahl (14657 points)
• 1959 : 1st place in the pentathlon in the team competition together with Hermann Salomon and Jürgen Hillermann (9099 points)
• 1960 : 1st place in the pentathlon in the team competition together with Hermann Salomon and Manfred Bock (9666 points)
• 1961 : 1st place in the pentathlon in the team classification together with Manfred Bock and Horst Beyer (9384 points),
  • 2nd place in the pentathlon in the individual ranking (3037 points)
• 1962 : 4th place in the 4 × 400 m relay with Stelzner, Dorau, P. Bock and M. Bock (time: 3: 13.40 min)
  • 5th place in the pentathlon in the team classification together with Peter Bock and Ern (8761 points)

swell

• Fritz Steinmetz: 75 years of the German Athletics Championships: (1898–1972). 1st edition. Bartels and Wernitz, Berlin / Munich / Frankfurt (center) 1973, ISBN 3-87039-956-2 (A contribution to the history of athletics).
• German Athletics Association: Yearbook of Athletics 1958. Bartels & Wernitz, Berlin 1958. Pages 121 to 123