Karl-Hans Riehm

Karl-Hans Riehm (born May 31, 1951 in Konz ) is a former German athlete .

Starting for the Federal Republic of Germany , he was one of the world's best hammer throwers in the 1970s and 1980s . His greatest achievement was winning the silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles .

Life

At the 1975 Whitsun Sports Festival in Rehlingen-Siersburg ( Saarland ), Riehm managed to stay above the old world record distance of 76.66 m from Alexei Spiridonow in all six litters . After the respective best lengths of 76.70 m and 77.56 m, he finally improved the record to 78.50 m. At a meeting in Heidenheim an der Brenz in 1978 , Karl-Hans Riehm was the second person after Boris Saitschuk to throw the hammer over the 80-meter mark under competitive conditions. With 80.32 m he again set a hammer throw world record.

In 1982 he received the Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize from the German Athletics Association .

Regarding his increase in performance in the mid-1970s, he explained: “What really helped me advance was the professional training opportunities as a regular soldier. ... In addition, there was the ingenious improvement of the hammer throwing technique devised by my trainer Ernst Klement. We were leaders in the world. "

Karl-Hans Riehm belonged to the TV Germania Trier until 1976 under the coach Ernst Klement , from 1978 to the TV Wattenscheid . In addition to athletics, Riehm also did lawn power sports for many years at RKV Ensdorf / Saar and was thus able to contribute to the success story of this club with a total of three team championships and well over 200 individual titles. Even today he is in the record list of the DRTV (Deutscher Rasenkraftsport- und Tauziehverband) in the senior class 1 over 87 kilograms with a width of 79.44 m, set up for the RKV Ensdorf on May 5, 1984 in Augsburg, as the record holder. When he competed, he was 1.88 m tall and weighed 110 kg.

The interior designer is married, has two children and until 2012 ran the joinery and furniture workshop in Konz, which his father took over . Since his early youth, especially since the end of his hammer throwing career, he has been involved in table tennis as an active player at the regional league level for decades.

successes

• 1972 Olympic Games : 10th place (70.12 m)
• 1976 Olympic Games : 4th place (75.46 m)
• 1978 European Championships : 3rd place (76.50 - 76.50 - 76.90 - 75.66 - invalid - 77.02 m )
• 1983 World Championships : 7th place (76.92 m)
• 1984 Olympic Games : 2nd place (73.68 - 74.70 - 77.98 m - invalid - 76.46 - invalid)
• Ten times German champion between 1973 and 1984 with the exception of 1974 ( Edwin Klein ) and 1982 ( Klaus Ploghaus )
• European Cup and World Cup winner

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.

• Horst Lachmund: Victory is not the only thing that counts: Karl-Hans Riehm - stages in an athlete's life . Published by Trierer Sportstiftung 1984

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with Karl-Hans Riehm , Trierischer Volksfreund
2. ↑ Athletics - German Championships (hammer throwing - men)