Jürgen Maune

Jürgen Maune
portrait
Date of birth	June 7, 1947
place of birth	Meissen , Soviet occupation zone
size	1.91 m
position	attack
societies
-1969 1969-1976	BSG tractor Meißen TSC Berlin SC Leipzig
National team
1969-1975	GDR national team
successes
1970-1976 1969 1970 1971 1972 1974	GDR master Winner World Cup GDR Winner World Cup Bulgaria 4th place EM Italy Silver Olympic Games Munich 4th place World Cup Mexico
As of May 10, 2015

Jürgen Maune , actually Hans-Jürgen Maune , (born June 7, 1947 in Meißen ) is a former volleyball player from the GDR .

Maune started with volleyball in Meissen and then moved to Berlin to the TSC . In 1969 he was delegated to SC Leipzig , with whom he won seven GDR championship titles from 1970 to 1976.

During his time at TSC Berlin, Maune had played in the junior national team and in the B national team. From 1969 Maune played in the GDR national team . Right at the beginning of his international career, he won the Volleyball World Cup in 1969 and the following year he was there when the GDR team won the title 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 .

Maune was a trained electrician and studied at the DHfK during his active time in Leipzig . After he had to end his career because of a serious injury in the 1975/76 season, the qualified sports teacher worked at a vocational school and later at the Leipzig sports high school.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR. Neues Leben, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 , pp. 294-295.

Web links

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