Manfred Letzelter

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Manfred Letzelter (born August 18, 1940 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a former German sports scientist and athlete .

Life

Letzelter spent his childhood and youth in Fischbach near Dahn . He played soccer  at FK Pirmasens . Later, athletics , handball  and swimming added. He studied in Munich and Freiburg and obtained a university degree as a certified sports teacher.

As a track and field athlete, he was briefly a member of TSV 1860 Munich and until 1966 of USC Freiburg . With the relay of USC Mainz Letzelter was German champion in 1969 and 1971 over 4x100 meters . He set a German student record over the 100-meter course (10.2 seconds) and an indoor world record over the 200 meters (21.5 seconds). In 1971, as a member of the Mainz relay, he was involved in the 4x100-meter European record. Letzelter's personal bests are 10.1 seconds over 100 meters, 21.0 seconds over 200 meters and 7.21 meters in the long jump .

As a track and field trainer, Letzelter looked after his wife Helga Letzelter , née Krieß, who was second in the high jump in 1969 and third in the German indoor championship in 1970. Later he also trained the Brazilian triple jump world record holder João Carlos de Oliveira and his son Stefan Letzelter .

His doctoral thesis, which he submitted in 1974 from the University of Graz and which was supervised by Günter Bernhard , was entitled "Competitive behavior, level of characteristics and endurance training in the 200 m run of highly qualified sprinters". Letzelter took up  a professorship for sports science at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz in 1973 ; he was particularly concerned with areas of training science, especially athletics. He also worked with his wife Helga in research, and later also with his son Stefan. According to Detlef Kuhlmann  , Letzelter quickly became one of the leading training scientists in Germany and beyond and, according to Helmut Digel, is "one of the founders of training science in Germany". Letzelter's book "Training Basics", published in 1978, became a standard work in training science. In 1987 he contributed the section on the subject of training science to the "Handbuch Sportwissenschaft". In 2002, together with Martin Lames and Andreas Hohmann, he published the basic work "Introduction to Training Science". In 2005 Letzelter resigned as head of the training and movement science department at the University of Mainz. Letzelter was honored by USC Mainz as an honorary member.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Detlef Kuhlmann: Sprinter and sports scientist: Prof. Dr. Manfred Letzelter is 80 years old. In: dosb.de. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Athletics - German Championships (Relays - Men - Part 1). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ German Indoor Athletics Championships (high jump - women). In: sport-komplett.de. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Manfred Letzelter: Competitive behavior, skill level and endurance training in the 200 m run of highly qualified sprinters. In: Catalog of the Graz University Library. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Letzelter, Helga; Letzelter, Manfred: On the significance of fitness tests: The fitness test from Bavaria . In: Physical Education . tape 31 , no. 6 , 1982, ISSN  0342-2402 , pp. 205–212 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on August 20, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Manfred Letzelter, Stefan Letzelter: Competition diagnostics in sprints . In: Athletics training: the teaching of athletics . tape 13 , no. 9 , 2002, ISSN  0939-8392 , p. 12-17 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on August 20, 2020]).
  7. ^ Manfred Letzelter: Training Science . In: Handbuch Sportwissenschaft. Eberspächer, Hans, 1987, accessed August 20, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Hohmann, Andreas; Lames, Martin; Letzelter, Manfred: Introduction to training science. In: Catalog of the Graz University Library. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Ronald Burger: Training Science: Facets in Teaching and Research; Festschrift on the farewell of Prof. Dr. Manfred Letzelter (=  Mainz Studies in Sports Science ). Schors, 2005, ISBN 978-3-88500-319-9 ( bisp-surf.de [accessed on August 20, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Katja Sturm: USC Mainz: Honorary member Manfred Letzelter turns 80 - Allgemeine Zeitung. In: Allgemeine-zeitung.de. August 19, 2020, accessed August 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Letzelter, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sports scientist and athlete
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein