Rudiger Harksen

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Rüdiger Harksen (born September 23, 1954 in Hockenheim ) is a German athletics trainer .

Life

Harksen used to be a good sprinter and started for the LG coop Kurpfalz and Salamander Kornwestheim . He won the bronze medal at the Junior European Championships in 1973 with the German 4 x 100 meter relay ( Karlheinz Weisenseel , Klaus-Günther Lemke, Rüdiger Harksen, Helmut Leibner) in 40.66 seconds. In the adult division, he was third with the Kornwestheim relay at the German championships in 1975 and second in 1977.

He studied sport and German and was a teacher at the Ludwig-Frank-Gymnasium in Mannheim . Since 1980 he was a part-time trainer at MTG Mannheim , later became an honorary trainer at DLV and finally gave up his position as a teacher in 1985 and became a full-time trainer. From 2008 to 2010 he was chief national trainer for the running area. Then Harksen was again the national coach for the hurdles sprint.

He was at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, 1988 in Seoul, 1992 in Barcelona, ​​1996 in Atlanta, 2004 in Athens, 2008 in Beijing and 2012 in London. Harksen looked after Andreas Rizzi , Nicole Leistenschneider , Claudia Zaczkiewicz , Gabi Lippe , Caren Sonn , Jérôme Crews , Nadine Hentschke , Kirsten Bolm and Carolin Nytra . He is currently training at MTG Mannheim in a training group for Ricarda Lobe , Nadine Gonska and Lisa Mayer . He is also the national coach of Ricarda Lobe.

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes. DLP, Darmstadt 2005, DNB 1012731138 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doping control as a close-knit network . In: Schwetzinger Zeitung of November 13, 2009, p. 15.
  2. ↑ a b Christian Rotter: Fire and Flame for his athletes . In: Mannheimer Morgen from July 23, 2012, p. 10.
  3. ↑ Mayer is looking for a new challenge at Harksen on morgenweb.de, September 28, 2016, accessed on January 7, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Harksen, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athletics trainer
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Hockenheim