Jochen Sachse (athlete)

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Jochen Sachse at the GDR championships in 1975

Jochen Sachse (* 2. October 1948 in Frankenberg / Saxony ) is a former GDR - athlete , who in the 1970s the world's best hammer throwers belonged.

Life

He finished fifth at the 1969 European Championships . In 1970 he won the gold medal at the Universiade . The following year he finished seventh at the European Championships . His greatest success is the silver medal at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich .

Sachse also won silver at the 1974 European Championships . At the Olympic Games in Montreal he reached sixth place and at the European Championships in 1978 ninth. He was also GDR champion in 1971, 1972, 1975 and 1976.

Jochen Sachse started for SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and trained with Günter Lunau . In his active time he was 1.92 m tall and weighed 112 kg. In the documents on doping in the GDR that became public after the reunification , the name of Sachse was found among the doped athletes.

He has a degree in thermal engineering. After retiring in 1978, he became a coach at SC Karl-Marx-Stadt. After the end of the GDR he worked at a training institute in Leipzig.

In 1972 he received the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze for his performance at the Summer Olympics in Munich .

successes

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 183

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personal data
SURNAME Sachse, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenberg , Saxony