Karl-Heinz Becker (athlete)

Karl-Heinz Becker
nation	German Empire
birthday	June 19, 1912
place of birth	Hamburg ,  German Empire
size	172 cm
Weight	58 kg
job	police officer
date of death	July 19, 2001
Place of death	Hamburg ,  Germany
Career
discipline	Long-distance running , cross-country running
Best performance	5000 m: 15: 06.2 min
society	SC Victoria Hamburg
Medal table
German championships 2 × 0 × 1 ×
German championships bronze Wittenberg 1935 Cross-country team competition gold Nuremberg 1936 4 × 1500 m gold Frankfurt am Main 1937 4 × 1500 m

Karl-Heinz Becker (born June 19, 1912 in Hamburg ; † July 19, 2001 there ) was a German long-distance runner .

biography

Karl-Heinz Becker competed in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin over 1500 m , but retired in the preliminary run.

In 1936 and 1937 he was German champion with the 4 x 1,500 meter relay . In 1935 he won bronze in the cross-country team competition.

During the Second World War , Becker was taken prisoner by Russia, from which he was only released in 1948. After that he worked as a police officer. Becker was the brother-in-law of his teammates Max Syring and Walter Schönrock .

Web links

• Karl-Heinz Becker in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )