Ignace Heinrich
Ignace Heinrich (born July 31, 1925 in Ebersheim , Département Bas-Rhin , † January 9, 2003 in Carnoux-en-Provence , Département Bouches-du-Rhône ) was a French athlete . With a height of 1.93 m, his competition weight was 92 kg.
After the Alsatian farmer's son deserted from the German Wehrmacht , he was initially in Soviet captivity. In the summer of 1945 he was allowed to return to his homeland.
In 1947 he completed his first decathlon for Racing Strasbourg and reached 6300 points. At the 1948 Olympic Games in London, he won silver with 6974 points behind the American Bob Mathias . In 1950 at the European Championships in Brussels Heinrich won with 7364 points ahead of the Icelandic Örn Clausen with 7297 points. At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , he gave up after the sixth discipline.
Ignace Heinrich was French decathlon champion in 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1952. He also won championship titles in the long jump in 1949 in the 110-meter hurdles in 1952 and in the pole vault in 1952. He started 26 times in the French national jersey, where he was used in seven other disciplines apart from the decathlon.
He reached his fifth and last French record in 1951 with 7476 points, which corresponds to 6934 points according to today's table.
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .
- Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2003. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2003, ISBN 1-899807-16-0 .
- Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics. German Society for Athletics Documentation e. V., Neuss 1999.
Web links
- Ignace Heinrich in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heinrich, Ignace |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ebersheim (Bas-Rhin) |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 2003 |
| Place of death | Carnoux-en-Provence |