Manfred children

Manfred children
Manfred Children, 1963
nation	BR Germany
birthday	April 20, 1938
place of birth	Koenigsberg ,  German Empire
size	184 cm
Weight	75 kg
job	police officer
Career
discipline	Sprint , middle distance run
Best performance	400 m: 45.8 s (1960) 800 m: 1: 46.7 min (1966)
society	OSV Hörde , Wuppertaler SV
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 1 × European championships 1 × 2 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 1 × 1 × 1 × German championships 9 × 6 × 2 × German indoor championships 10 × 3 × 1 ×
Olympic games silver 1960 Rome 4 × 400 m bronze 1968 Mexico City 4 × 400 m  European championships silver 1962 Belgrade 400 m gold 1962 Belgrade 4 × 400 m bronze 1966 Budapest 400 m silver 1966 Budapest 4 × 400 m  European Indoor Championships silver 1966 Dortmund 400 m gold 1967 Prague 400 m bronze 1969 Belgrade 4 × 390 m  German championships silver 1959 Stuttgart 400 m gold 1959 Stuttgart 4 × 400 m silver 1960 Berlin 400 m gold 1960 Berlin 4 × 400 m silver 1961 Düsseldorf 400 m gold 1961 Düsseldorf 4 × 400 m silver 1962 Hamburg 400 m gold 1962 Hamburg 4 × 400 m gold 1963 Augsburg 800 m gold 1963 Augsburg 4 × 400 m gold 1964 Berlin 800 m gold 1964 Berlin 4 × 400 m silver 1965 Duisburg 4 × 400 m silver 1966 Hanover 400 m gold 1966 Hanover 4 × 400 m bronze 1967 Stuttgart 4 × 400 m bronze 1968 Berlin 400 m  German indoor championships silver 1959 Berlin 400 m gold 1959 Berlin 4 × 400 m gold 1960 Kiel 400 m gold 1960 Kiel 4 × 400 m gold 1961 Stuttgart 400 m gold 1961 Stuttgart 4 × 400 m gold 1962 Dortmund 400 m gold 1962 Dortmund 4 × 400 m gold 1963 Berlin 4 × 400 m gold 1967 Dortmund 400 m silver 1967 Dortmund 4 × 400 m gold 1968 Stuttgart 400 m silver 1968 Stuttgart 4 × 400 m bronze 1969 Dortmund 4 × 400 m

Manfred Kinder (born April 20, 1938 in Königsberg ) is a former German athlete and Olympic medalist who - starting for the Federal Republic - was one of the world's best 400-meter runners in the 1960s . He was involved in two Olympic medal successes with the German 4 x 400 meter relay : the 1960 silver medal in Rome and the 1968 bronze medal in Mexico City. For his sporting successes at the 1960 Olympic Games, Kinder was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf .

successes

• 1960, Olympic Games : 2nd place with the 4 x 400 meter relay (3: 02.7 min, European record, together with Hans-Joachim Reske , Johannes Kaiser and Carl Kaufmann ); 5th place in the 400 meter run (45.9 s)
• 1962, European Championships : 1st place with the 4 x 400 meter relay (3: 05.8 min, together with Johannes Schmitt , Wilfried Kindermann and Hans-Joachim Reske ); 2nd place in the 400-meter run (46.1 s)
• 1964, Olympic Games : 5th place with the 4 x 400 meter relay; Eliminated in the intermediate run in the 800-meter run
• 1966, European Championships : 2nd place with the 4 x 400 meter relay (3: 04.8 min, together with Friedrich Roderfeld , Jens Ulbricht and Rolf Krüsmann ); 3rd place in the 400 meter run (46.3 s)
• 1966, European Indoor Games 1966 ; 2nd place in the 400 meter run
• 1968, Olympic Games : 3rd place with the 4 x 400 meter relay (3: 00.5 min / European record, together with Helmar Müller , Gerhard Hennige and Martin Jellinghaus )

At the Olympic Games in 1960 and 1964 he started for the Federal Republic in a joint German team.

In 1963 and 1964 Manfred Kinder was German champion in the 800 meter run , in 1959, 1960 and 1961 he won the championship title with the 4 x 400 meter relay of the OSV Hörde, in 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1966 with that of the Wuppertal SV. There are also five indoor titles over 400 meters, five more indoor championships with the 4 x 400 meter relay and six runner-up titles in the stadium. In 1965 he received the Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize .

Manfred Kinder belonged to the OSV Hörde , from 1962 to the Wuppertaler SV . In his playing days he was 1.84 m tall and weighed 75 kg. He first became a car mechanic and then joined the police force in Wuppertal .

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes. German Athletics Promotion and Project Society, Darmstadt 2005.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sports report of the federal government . Printed matter 7/1040. September 26, 1973, p. 66 ( online [PDF; accessed September 9, 2016]).