Norbert Klaar

Rapid fire pistol

Norbert Klaar (born October 12, 1954 in Wittenberge ) is a former German sports shooter .

Life

Before Norbert Klaar started shooting, he was a track and field athlete. After all, he made it over 400 m to 55 s and in the long jump he reached 5.70 m. He achieved his first successes at the Spartakiad. In 1970 and 1972 he adorned himself here with the first gold medals. His first trainer, Horst Witt, played a part in this.

Klaar was vice European junior champion in 1974 and finished 27th at the European championship in the adult class in 1975. In January 1976 the main sergeant of the German People's Police , who competed for the SC Dynamo Hoppegarten , qualified for the GDR's Olympic selection . In Montreal at the 1976 Olympic Games , he won the gold medal with the rapid-fire pistol with 597 rings ahead of Jürgen Wiefel from Leipzig. Klaar achieved his second big title in 1977 when he won the European championship with the air pistol with the GDR team. In 1979 Klaar won the GDR championship with the rapid-fire pistol and finished ninth at the European championship. In 1981 Klaar won silver with the team at the World Cup.

Klaar was a trained rail vehicle fitter, after studying political science, he was employed in the GDR Ministry of the Interior . After the fall of the Wall , Klaar joined the Adlershofer Füchsen , for which he was able to become German champion in 1996. Norbert Klaar is state trainer in Brandenburg.

Awards

• 1976: Patriotic Order of Merit of the GDR in silver
• 1976: Ernst Schneller Medal in gold

literature

• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .
• Volker Kluge: Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .
• Olaf W. Reimann:  Klaar, Norbert . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ "About the person - Norbert Klaar". In: Neues Deutschland , July 24, 1976, p. 8.
2. ↑ European Championship results
3. ↑ World Championship results
4. ^ Successes of the Adlershof foxes
5. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required). 
6. ↑ Hans-Joachim Beck: Sports shooting in the GDR from the beginning until 1990 . Ed .: Deutscher Schützenbund eV Wiesbaden 2002, p. 478 .

Web links

• Norbert Klaar in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )