Klaus Porbadnik

In 1955, Klaus Porbadnik became East German champion in the 10,000-meter run

Klaus Porbadnik (born June 24, 1930 in Hohenstein ) is a former German athlete from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) who took part in the 1956 Olympic Games.

Porbadnik came to Halberstadt from East Prussia in 1945, he began his career at Lok Halberstadt , and later he ran for SC Lok Leipzig . In 1954, Porbadnik was second behind Günter Havenstein at the GDR championships in the 5000 meter run . In 1955 Porbadnik won over 10,000 meters ahead of Heinrich Braun and won his only GDR championship title. In 1956 Porbadnik finished second behind Havenstein over 10,000 meters. The two German states sent a team to the 1956 Olympic Games . Only Porbadnik qualified over 10,000 meters from the GDR, Herbert Schade and Walter Konrad joined them from West Germany . Schade finished ninth, Konrad 13th and Porbadnik 17th. Three GDR runners competed in the marathon, Lothar Beckert came 19th, Kurt Hartung 28th and Klaus Porbadnik gave up. Porbadnik was GDR runner-up in the forest run in 1957 and 1959, and in 1958 and 1959 he was third in the 3,000-meter obstacle course.

Klaus Porbadnik also set several GDR records:

• In the 5000 meter run on May 15, 1955, Porbadnik improved Heinrich Braun's record to 14: 35.4 minutes, and Gerhard Hönicke increased the record a week later . He set his personal best of 14: 09.6 min in 1956 in Copenhagen.
• In the 10,000-meter run, Porbadnik improved the GDR record three times in 1955 and 1956, most recently to 29: 37.6 minutes on October 10, 1956 in Leipzig. This personal best was broken a year later by Friedrich Janke as the GDR record .
• Four days after his 10,000 meter record, Porbadnik practiced a tempo run in Plauen with a view to the Olympic marathon, during which he set an hour record of 19,091 meters, a record over 20 kilometers in 1: 02: 55.4 hours and 1 : 19: 44 h set a record over 25 kilometers.

In 1958 he married the middle-distance runner Anneliese Kloas .

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
• Fritz Steinmetz and Manfred Grieser : German records. Development from 1898 to 1991. Kassel 1992

Web links

Commons : Klaus Porbadnik  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Klaus Porbadnik in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )