Peter Laufer

Peter Laufer
nation	GDR
birthday	September 13, 1936
place of birth	Breslau ,  German Empire
size	183 cm
Weight	78 kg
job	Civil engineer
date of death	4th March 2016
Place of death	Berlin ,  Germany
Career
discipline	Pole vault , hurdles
Best performance	4.80 m
society	SC DHfK Leipzig SC Dynamo Berlin
Medal table
GDR championships 2 × 0 × 0 ×
GDR championships gold Leipzig 1959 Pole vault silver Leipzig 1960 Pole vault gold Dresden 1961 Pole vault silver Jena 1963 Pole vault bronze Jena 1963 110 m hurdles

Peter Laufer (born September 13, 1936 in Breslau , Province of Silesia , † March 4, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German athlete . He competed in the pole vault and in the 110-meter hurdles .

biography

After Laufer finished eighth in the pole vault at the 1958 European Championships , he won the gold medal at the GDR championships in 1959 and the silver medal a year later. At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 , however, he did not manage to qualify for the final in the pole vault and finished in 14th place. A year later he was again GDR champion . At the GDR championships in 1963 Laufer again won silver in the pole vault and bronze over 110 m hurdles.

Laufer trained as a civil engineer and was a beekeeper in his spare time . In 1962 he married the long jumper Hildrun Claus .

Web links

• Peter Laufer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )