Max Syring

Karl-Heinz Becker
Max Syring, 1934
Full name	Max Franz Syring
nation	German Empire
birthday	August 20, 1908
place of birth	Reuden ,  German Empire
size	170 cm
Weight	60 kg
date of death	April 14, 1983
Place of death	Hamburg ,  FR Germany
Career
discipline	Long distance running
Best performance	5000 m: 15: 06.2 min
society	KTV Wittenberg
Medal table
European championships 0 × 0 × 1 × German championships 18 × 5 × 3 ×
European championships bronze Paris 1938 10,000 m  German championships silver Berlin 1931 5000 m gold Hanover 1932 5000 m gold Hanover 1932 10,000 m silver Cologne 1933 5000 m gold Cologne 1933 10,000 m gold Nuremberg 1934 5000 m gold Nuremberg 1934 10,000 m gold Dresden 1934 Cross-country run bronze Dresden 1934 Cross-country team competition gold Berlin 1935 5000 m gold Wittenberg 1935 Cross-country run bronze Wittenberg 1935 Cross-country team competition gold Berlin 1936 10,000 m gold Nuremberg 1936 4 × 1500 m gold Freiburg im Breisgau 1936 Cross-country run bronze Freiburg im Breisgau 1936 Cross-country team competition gold Berlin 1937 5000 m gold Frankfurt am Main 1937 4 × 1500 m gold Wroclaw 1938 5000 m gold Berlin 1939 10,000 m silver Berlin 1940 5000 m silver Berlin 1941 5000 m gold Berlin 1941 10,000 m gold Berlin 1942 5000 m silver Berlin 1942 3 × 1000 m gold Berlin 1943 5000 m

Max Franz Syring (born August 20, 1908 in Reuden near Zerbst , † April 14, 1983 in Hamburg ) was a German long-distance runner. His greatest success was winning the bronze medal in the 10,000 meter run at the European Championships in 1938.

Career

Max Syring began his career at the Reuden gymnastics club , for which he competed until 1929. In 1929 he won the 5000-meter run at the championships of the German Gymnastics Association . In 1930 he moved to KTV Wittenberg and defended his championship title in the German Gymnastics Association. In 1931 he became the first 5000 meter champion of the German Sports Authority for Athletics , the predecessor association of the DLV . After he had increased the German record in the 10,000 meter run to 31: 26.8 minutes in September , he improved the German record over 5000 meters to 14: 49.6 minutes on October 1, 1931. Syring was the first German to run the 5000 meters under 15 minutes.

In 1932 he won the German Athletics Championships over 10,000 meters as well as over 5000 meters. After this success he went to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1932 . Over 10,000 meters he was fifth in 31: 35.0 min. Five days later he was sixth over 5000 meters in 14: 59.0 min.

In the following years Syring was the strongest German long-distance runner, until 1939 he won at least one championship title every year. At the European Championships in Turin in 1934 , on the other hand, he gave up over 10,000 meters and at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 he was eliminated in the run-up over 5000 meters. It was not until the European Championships in Paris in 1938 that he was able to win an international medal. In 30: 57.8 min he finished third over 10,000 meters behind the Finn Ilmari Salminen and the Italian Giuseppe Beviacqua .

Syring also started for the KTV Wittenberg during the Second World War and was the last 5000 meter champion before the end of the war in 1943. From 1946 he was active for SG Wittenberg , later for SG Lokomotive Wittenberg . In 1952 Syring was third in the GDR championship over 5000 meters and second over 10,000 meters.

Syring was coached by Arthur Lambert throughout his career . From 1953 Syring worked as a trainer at SC Lokomotive Leipzig , where he looked after Klaus Richtzenhain , among others . After 1956 Syring moved to Hamburg, where he worked as a commercial clerk and in his spare time built up a runners department at Hamburger SV .

Max Syring was married to Elly , nee Zätsch , and had two sons. His teammates Walter Schönrock and Karl-Heinz Becker were his brothers-in-law. With a height of 1.70 m, his competition weight was 60 kg.

German championship title

• 5000 meters: 1932, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1942, 1943 and five second places
• 10,000 meters: 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1939, 1941
• Forest run: 1934, 1935, 1936 and the team competition in 1936
• 4 × 1500 meters: 1936, 1937

Best times

• 1500 meters: 3: 57.5 min (1941)
• 3000 meters: 8: 22.6 min (1939)
• 5000 meters: 14: 29.0 min (1939)
• 10,000 meters: 30: 06.6 min (1940)

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
• Ekkehard zur Megede : The Modern Olympic Century 1896–1996. Track and Field Athletics. German Society for Athletics Documentation eV, Neuss 1999.