Rudolf Harbig memorial run

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Harbig Sports Festival 1955

The Rudolf Harbig Memorial Run was a European competition over the 800 meter distance in honor of the Dresden middle -distance runner Rudolf Harbig . It took place annually from 1951 to 1966 as part of the Harbig Sports Festival and once in 1998 in Dresden in the Rudolf Harbig Stadium or in the Heinz Steyer Stadium .

The winner of the run received a crystal challenge prize donated by the Athletics Section.

winner

year runner Association / Country time
1951 Rolf Lamers Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 1: 56.1 min
1952 Rolf Donath SC Science Hall 1: 55.2 min
1953 Stanislav Jungwirth ČSSR 1: 52.3 min
1954 Gunnar Nielsen Denmark 1: 50.2 min
1955 Gunnar Nielsen Denmark 1: 49.1 min
1956 Klaus Richtzenhain SC Lokomotive Leipzig 1: 49.2 min
1957 Svavar Markússon Iceland 1: 53.1 min
1958 Old Pettersson Sweden 1: 51.2 min
1959 Manfred Matuschewski SC Turbine Erfurt 1: 50.0 min
1960 Rudolf Klaban Austria 1: 49.1 min
1961 Milan Jilek ČSSR 1: 50.3 min
1962 Manfred Matuschewski Turbine Erfurt 1: 48.5 min
1963 Manfred Matuschewski Turbine Erfurt 1: 51.6 min
1964 Rudolf Klaban Austria 1: 49.5 min
1965 Rudolf Klaban Austria 1: 50.2 min
1966 Manfred Matuschewski Turbine Erfurt 1: 48.6 min
1998 Laban Rotich Kenya 1: 46.35 min

literature

  • Erhard Mallek: Rudolf Harbig - The miracle runner from Dresden. Verlagsgesellschaft Meißen, Meißen 2004, edition Sächsische Zeitung , without ISBN, pp. 53–54.

Individual evidence

  1. Gerda Harbig : Unforgotten Rudolf Harbig. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1952, p. 185.
  2. ^ Photo of the certificate in the Europeana