Klaus Zähringer

Klaus Zähringer (born October 17, 1939 in Königsberg ) is a former German sports shooter who competed for the all-German team and for the Federal Republic of Germany.

Zähringer's family fled Königsberg at the end of the Second World War and settled in Stuttgart. Klaus Zähringer, who competed for the Stuttgart Rifle Guild , won the 1959 European Championship in Milan in a three-position battle with a small-bore rifle , setting a world record with 1,149 rings. At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 , Victor Schamburkin from the Soviet Union set this world record and won the gold medal in front of his compatriot Marat Nyýazow ; with 1139 rings, Klaus Zähringer won the bronze medal in Rome.

In 1963 at the European Championships in Oslo, Zähringer finished second in the three-position battle behind his compatriot Bernd Klingner . In the team competition, the two won the title together with Peter Kohnke and Karl Wenk . At the Olympic Games in 1964 , Zähringer competed with the free rifle (14th place) and with the small bore rifle (22nd place). In the following years, Zähringer was still a member of the German national team and won bronze at the European Championships in 1965 and silver at the European Championships in 1969. In 1967 he improved his personal best in the three-position battle to 1,161 rings. Between 1959 and 1969 he achieved a total of eight German championship titles in various disciplines. In 1970 Zähringer won another individual medal at an international championship: at the World Championships in Phoenix, he received the bronze medal in the prone position.

On December 9, 1960, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf for his athletic achievements.

literature

• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Mexico 1968. Our team . Frankfurt 1968

Web links

• Klaus Zähringer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• European championships with the small bore rifle

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Zähringer in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 , p. 543.
3. ↑ Bodo Harenberg (ed.): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Darmstadt 1970 page 267
4. ↑ World Championships in the lying position ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Sports report of the Federal Government of September 26, 1973 to the Bundestag - Printed matter 7/1040 - page 75