Karl Thierfelder

In 1957 Karl Thierfelder is East German triple jump champion

Karl "Karli" Thierfelder (born August 9, 1933 in Geyer ) is a former athlete who competed for the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In 1957 and 1960 he was GDR triple jump champion .

At the GDR championships in 1956, Thierfelder competed in the high jump and triple jump. In the high jump he was third behind Günter Lein and Werner Pfeil with 1.80 m, and in the triple jump he finished second behind Klaus Hübschmann with 14.23 m . The following year he reached sixth place in the high jump with 1.80 m, and won the triple jump with 14.84 m. In 1958 he jumped 15.32 m in the triple jump at the GDR championships, but only took second place because Wolfgang Kleinert increased the GDR record to 15.50 m. In 1959 Thierfelder jumped 15.48 m and was in second place behind Manfred Hinze , who reached 16.04 m. In 1959 Thierfelder also started at the UIE Weeks, the Universiade of the Eastern Bloc, and won bronze with 14.57 m.

In 1960 Karl Thierfelder succeeded in winning two championship titles: with 7.51 m he won the long jump and with 15.63 m the triple jump. In the triple jump Thierfelder was also able to qualify for the all-German team , but was eliminated at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome with 15.08 m as 23rd of the qualification. After fourth place in 1961, Thiefelder took second place behind Manfred Hinze at the 1962 GDR championships with 15.74 m. At the European Championships in Belgrade in 1962 , the triple jump was one of the few disciplines in which all three starting positions of the all-German team were taken by athletes from the GDR. While Manfred Hinze and Hans-Jürgen Rückborn qualified for the final, Thierfelder again took 23rd place with 14.94 m. In 1963, Thierfelder again reached third place in the GDR championships, in 1964 he was sixth in the long jump.

Karl Thierfelder competed for SC Dynamo Berlin . With a height of 1.77 m, his competition weight was 65 kg.

Top performances

• Long jump 7.54 m in 1962
• Triple jump 16.04 m 1964

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898-2005 . 2 volumes, Darmstadt 2005 published via Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft