Karl-Friedrich Haas (athlete)

Karl-Friedrich Haas
nation	BR Germany
date of birth	July 28, 1931
place of birth	Berlin
size	186 cm
Weight	72 kg
profession	Mechanical engineer
date of death	August 12, 2021
Place of death	Nuremberg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	200 m: 21.0 s 400 m: 46.29 s
society	1. FC Nuremberg
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 1 × European championships 0 × 2 × 0 × German championships 5 × 4 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze 1952 Helsinki 4 × 400 m silver 1956 Melbourne 400 m  European championships silver 1954 Bern 4 × 400 m silver 1958 Stockholm 4 × 400 m  German championships silver 1951 Düsseldorf 400 m gold 1952 Berlin 400 m gold 1953 Augsburg 400 m silver 1953 Augsburg 200 m gold 1954 Hamburg 400 m gold 1955 Frankfurt am Main 400 m gold 1956 Berlin 400 m silver 1957 Düsseldorf 400 m silver 1958 Hanover 400 m

Karl-Friedrich Haas (born July 28, 1931 in Berlin ; † August 12, 2021 in Nuremberg ) was a German athlete who was successful in the 200 and 400-meter run and at the Olympic Games for the Federal Republic of Germany in an all-German Starting team won two medals:

• In 1952 he won the bronze medal in Helsinki with the German 4 x 400 meter relay (together with Hans Geister , Günther Steines , Heinz Ulzheimer / Karl-Friedrich Haas as the final runner). He finished fourth in the 400-meter run.
• In 1956 he was second in the 400-meter run in Melbourne . With the 4 x 400 meter relay ( Walter Oberste , Manfred Poerschke , Jürgen Kühl / Karl-Friedrich Haas as the final runner) he was fourth; in the 200-meter run, he was eliminated in the semifinals in fifth.

Career

Karl-Friedrich Haas started for 1. FC Nürnberg . In his playing days he was 1.86 m tall and weighed 72 kg. In 1964 he ended his sports career.

Haas came to Nuremberg as a child and grew up there. In 1947 he entered his first competition - in his father's sneakers. In 1958 he completed his engineering studies at the Technical University of Munich. He later worked for Siemens AG in power plant construction in many countries around the world. He was retired in 1995.

He married Maria Sturm in 1956 and had a son, Christian Haas (* 1958), who was also successful as a sprinter (relay bronze medal at the 1982 European Championships ).

In 1957, Karl-Friedrich Haas was awarded the Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize after having been the flag bearer of the all-German team at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games the year before . He also received the Silver Laurel Leaf in 1952 .

Results

Olympic games

• 1952: 4 × 400 m (bronze)
• 1956: 400 m (silver)

European championships

• 1954: 4 × 400 m (silver), 400 m (4th)
• 1958: 4 × 400 m (silver), 400 m (bronze)

German championships (open air)

• 1951: 400 m (2nd)
• 1952: 400 m (1st)
• 1953: 400 m (1st), 200 m (2nd)
• 1954: 400 m (1st)
• 1955: 400 m (1st)
• 1956: 400 m (1st)
• 1957: 400 m (2nd)
• 1958: 400 m (2nd)

Web links

• Karl-Friedrich Haas in the Olympedia.org database (English)