Jörg Damme

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Jörg Damme (born May 9, 1959 in Pretzsch ) is a German sports shooter . He competed for the German Democratic Republic until 1990 and then for another ten years for Germany. In 1990 he was world champion in trap at the last appearance of the GDR national team .

Jörg Damme began his career at SC Dynamo Hoppegarten , then shot for the successor club SV Diana Hoppegarten from 1990 . After an interlude at FV SSZ Suhl , he returned to Diana Hoppegarten .

After he had finished third at the GDR championship in 1980, he was nominated for the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow . There the Italian Luciano Giovannetti scored 198 hits and won the gold medal, followed by Rustam Yambulatov from the Soviet Union, Josef Hojný from Czechoslovakia and Jörg Damme 196 hits. In the first jump-off, Yambulatov and Damme hit 24 targets, Hojný missed the medal ranks with 23 pigeons; in the second jump-off, Yambulatov hit all 25 targets and received silver in front of Damme with 24 hits.

1983 Damme won his first championship title of the GDR, more followed in 1985, 1986, 1988 and 1990. 1986 Damme reached the second place at the world championship in Suhl behind Miloslav Bednařík from Czechoslovakia. The following year Damme won at the European Championships and again took second place at the World Championships, this time behind Dmytro Monakow . At the Olympic Games in 1988 Damme took 15th place, while Monakow won before Bednarik. Jörg Damme achieved his greatest success in 1990 when he won the title in front of the Italians Daniele Cioni and Marco Venturini at the World Championships in Moscow with a world record performance of 200 throwing discs in the preliminary fight and 224 throwing discs .

After the reunification of Germany, Damme entered the German championships for the first time in 1991 and won the title straight away, others followed in 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1997. In 1991, he finished third in both the European championships and the world championships. At the 1992 Olympic Games , Venturini, Damme and Pavel Kubec from Czechoslovakia each reached 218 targets and had to fight for places 3 to 5 in the jump-off; in the second jump-off Venturini prevailed and received the bronze medal, Damme took fourth place ahead of Kubec. In 1995 Damme won the European Championship again in Lahti, and the following year he finished 20th in his fourth Olympic participation .

The trained plumber worked as a commercial clerk after the fall of the Wall . Jörg Damme is an active hunter and offers hunting courses with a shotgun school.

Awards

literature

  • Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR. New life, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 .
  • Volker Kluge: Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .
  • National Olympic Committee: Atlanta 96. The German Olympic team . Frankfurt am Main 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany , 1./2. September 1984, p. 4.
  2. ↑ a b c d Beck, Hans-Joachim: Sport shooting in the GDR from the beginnings to 1990 . Ed .: Deutscher Schützenbund eV Wiesbaden 2002, p. 478 .
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland, October 15, 1986, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Damme, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German marksman
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Pretzsch