Norbert Warnatzsch

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Norbert Warnatzsch (born January 16, 1947 in Nenkersdorf ) is a German swimming coach .

education

Norbert Warnatzsch is a certified sports teacher and lives in Berlin . The married swimming coach has so far looked after some German swimmers of international class. In 1965 he graduated from high school and studied from 1970 to 1975 at the Berlin branch of the German University for Physical Culture and Sport Leipzig .

Coaching career

Since 1991 he has held the A license of the German Swimming Association (DSV). Warnatzsch was initially a trainer in the youth field for nine years and then switched to high-performance sport. In 1969 he started as a junior coach at SC Dynamo Berlin , in 1976 he switched to top-class sport at the club and at the same time became a coach for the GDR national team. In 1988 he moved back to the junior division of the club, which became SC Berlin after the reunification .

In 1991/92 Warnatzsch served as the head coach of the Indonesian national team.

In 1992 he became head coach of the Neukölln swimming community and remained in this position until the end of 2004. Since then he has been the head coach of swimming at the Berlin Olympic Training Center. Since 2002 Warnatzsch was also a member of the coaching staff of the national swimming team of the DSV.

After the 2012 Summer Olympics , he gave up all his functions.

From October 2013 to December 2017 he worked as a trainer at the Olympiastützpunkt Potsdam and was vice-president of the state swimming federation for competitive sports until March 2018.

GDR doping

During the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , allegations against three former trainers from the GDR, including Warnatzsch, were alleged to have administered doping drugs to athletes during the GDR era, contrary to a declaration of honor. Warnatzsch was involved in a large-scale experiment with the anabolic Oral-Turinabol on young swimmers under age in 1977 . The public prosecutor's office investigated Warnatzsch as early as 1997, but later dropped the proceedings.

successes

Warnatzsch's athletes won three gold, one silver and three bronze medals at the Olympic Games or were involved in winning medals as relay starters. There are also three gold, two silver and four bronze medals at world championships. The yield at European championships consists of 13 gold, 16 silver and seven bronze. Added to this is the win of 33 championship titles. Warnatzsch's athletes set six world records, eleven European records, 21 German and GDR records and two Syrian records or participated in them in relays. (Status: after the 2008 Olympic Games).

Supervised athletes

Among the athletes previously supervised are, for example, Franziska van Almsick , Robin Backhaus , Stephanie Backhaus , Dorothea Brandt , Rafed El-Masri , Ernest Fahrland , Detlev Grabs , Ingo Grzywotz , Jochen Hanz , Nicole Hetzer , Timo Lorenz , Jenny Mensing , Frank Pfütze , Daniela Samulski , Peter Schneider , Torsten Spanneberg , Benjamin Starke , Britta Steffen , Tim Wallburger , Oliver Wenzel , Jörg Woithe , Olaf Ziesche , Moritz Zimmer and Johannes Hintze . He currently looks after the swimmers Marius Zobel, Florian Wellbrock and Franziska Hentke in Magdeburg.

Awards

In 2002, 2006, 2008 and 2009 he was voted German Swimming Trainer of the Year .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tobias Gutsche: Potsdam swimming sport: In the current . In: Potsdam's latest news . March 2, 2018 ( pnn.de [accessed March 26, 2018]).
  2. ^ Doping allegation: DOSB checks trainer Warnatzsch
  3. ↑ See Uwe Müller, Grit Hartmann: Forward and forget! Cadres, informers and accomplices - the dangerous legacy of the SED dictatorship. Berlin 2009, p. 217 f.
  4. ↑ Mirko Seifert. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Comeback on the edge of the pool: Norbert Warnatzsch becomes assistant trainer in Magdeburg. In: Swim Sport News. Swim Sport News, accessed on April 2, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Honoring the successful trainers in the German Swimming Association (1997 to 2016) ( PDF document ) from http://dstv-schwektivenrainer.de/service/trainer-des-jahres/ , accessed on March 21, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Warnatzsch, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swim coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Nenkersdorf