Kurt Hartung (athlete)
Kurt Hartung 
|
||||||||||
| nation |
 GDR
|
|||||||||
| birthday | April 17, 1925 | |||||||||
| place of birth |
Knobelsdorf , German Empire.svg){kind=small}
|
|||||||||
| job | PE teacher | |||||||||
| Career | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| discipline | Marathon run | |||||||||
| Best performance | 2:23:06 h | |||||||||
| society | SC Dynamo Berlin | |||||||||
| Trainer | Max Schommler | |||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||
| End of career | 1962 | |||||||||
| Medal table | ||||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
Kurt Hartung (born April 17, 1925 in Knobelsdorf ) is a former German marathon runner .
biography
Kurt Hartung took part in a regional race for the first time at the age of 24, where he took second place.
At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 , Hartung was the first marathon runner from the German Democratic Republic to join the all-German team . In the marathon , he finished 28th. Hartung had become East German champion a year earlier .
Hartung graduated from the German University for Physical Culture in Leipzig and taught as a sports teacher in Berlin until he retired .
Web links
- Kurt Hartung in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hartung, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German marathon runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Knobelsdorf |