Klaus Gerbig

Klaus Gerbig
nation	BR Germany
birthday	May 6, 1939
place of birth	Kassel ,  German Empire
size	181 cm
Weight	75 kg
date of death	June 20, 1992
Place of death	Ruesselsheim ,  Germany
Career
discipline	Hurdles
Best performance	110 m hurdles: 14.2 s
society	TG 1862 Rüsselsheim
Trainer	Helmut Dorn
Medal table
German championships 2 × 1 × 2 ×
German championships silver Stuttgart 1959 200 m hurdles bronze Berlin 1960 110 m hurdles bronze Düsseldorf 1961 110 m hurdles gold Düsseldorf 1961 200 m hurdles gold Augsburg 1963 200 m hurdles

Klaus Gerbig (born May 6, 1939 in Kassel ; † June 20, 1992 in Rüsselsheim ) was a German hurdler .

biography

Klaus Gerbig came from a family based in Rüsselsheim , but was born in Kassel due to the war . A year later the family returned to Rüsselsheim. After the war he joined the TG 1862 Rüsselsheim as a teenager . He began training with self-made starting blocks and three exercise hurdles. With his talent he managed to set a new European junior record over 200 m hurdles.

Gerbig won silver over 200 m hurdles at the German championships in 1959 and bronze over 110 m hurdles a year later . At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , he started over 110 m hurdles , but was eliminated in the preliminary run. 1961 and 1963 Gerbig was German champion in the 200-meter hurdles . In total he took part in six international matches. During one of these international matches in Helsinki he met his wife Katri Lindholm, with whom he had a son.

After his career he was active as a referee chairman and starter. In 1969 he founded the LC Rüsselsheim with seven other people and later worked as a trainer for SSV Raunheim. In 1985 the Rüsselsheimer received the silver needle from the German Athletics Association . In 1992 Gerbig died of cancer at the age of only 53.

Web links

• Klaus Gerbig in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Report from the website of the LC Rüsselsheim