Siegfried Herrmann (athlete)

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Herrmann at the GDR championships in 1952

Siegfried Herrmann (born November 7, 1932 in Unterschönau , district of Herrschaft Schmalkalden , province of Hessen-Nassau ; † February 14, 2017 in Erfurt ) was a German athlete and Olympic participant who started for the GDR in the 1950s and 1960s . was a successful middle and long distance runner .

Life

Siegfried Herrmann grew up in one of the Prussian parts of Thuringia . 1951–1953 he was a successful cross-country skier before he dedicated himself to athletics. As a starter in the all-German Olympic team in Melbourne in 1956 , Herrmann suffered an Achilles tendon rupture in the run-up to 1500 m and was eliminated. On August 5, 1965, he set a world record in the 3000 meter run in Erfurt with a time of 7: 46.0 minutes . In 1966 he won the silver medal of the European Indoor Games in the 3000-meter run.

He was GDR champion eight times: in 1964, 1965 and 1966 in the 5000-meter run , 1966 in the 10,000-meter run , 1960 and 1961 in the short-distance cross-country run and in 1964 and 1966 in the long-distance cross-country run. From 1952 to 1965 he set a total of 21 GDR records in the 800-meter run , 1000-meter run , 1500-meter run, 3000-meter run and 5000-meter run. Siegfried Herrmann belonged to Rot-Weiß Unterschönau until 1951 and then from 1951 to 1953 of the company sports association Traktor Unterschönau . Then he moved to SC Chemie Halle via the sports club Einheit-Mitte and from 1962 belonged to SC Turbine Erfurt . During his competition time, Herrmann was 1.76 m tall and weighed 65 kg. His brother Hubert Herrmann was the GDR champion over 1500 meters in 1954.

While he had prepared for the 1956 Olympic Games with pure interval training (and his Achilles tendon had been damaged by the many track training in spikes ), before the 1964 season he switched the training to endurance run with his trainer Ewald Mertens and started with renewed vigor to develop the longer routes for yourself.

During his active time, the trained carpenter and industrial master completed a distance learning course at the German University of Physical Culture to become a certified sports teacher specializing as a trainer. From 1976 Herrmann looked after both the runners and the walkers in Erfurt, including the 1980 Olympic champion Hartwig Gauder . He was active as a trainer until 2000.

Assignments at international highlights

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.meinanzeiger.de/erfurt/sport/siegfried-herrmann-unsere-thueringer-lauflegende-ist-80-d22574.html on . March 6, 2017
  2. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Many roads lead to Olympia. The changes in training systems for medium and long distance runners (1850–1997) . In: N. Gissel (Hrsg.): Sporting performance in change . Czwalina, Hamburg 1998, pp. 41-56.
  3. ^ Manfred Steffny : Siegfried Herrmann †. Spiridon 43 (2017), 3, 5.
  4. ↑ Uwe Jentzsch: Runner idol Siegfried Herrmann is 80 years old. Thüringer Allgemeine , November 7, 2012, accessed on March 7, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Herrmann, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and Olympian
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Unterschönau , Landkreis Herrschaft Schmalkalden , Province Hesse-Nassau , Prussia
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2017
Place of death Erfurt