Siegfried Lefanczik

Siegfried Lefanczik
nation	GDR
birthday	4th July 1930
place of birth	Genthin ,  German Empire
size	181 cm
Weight	57 kg
job	Police commissioner
date of death	February 2016
Place of death	Genthin ,  Germany
Career
discipline	Go
Best performance	20 km: 1:31:10 h
society	SV Chemie Genthin
Medal table
GDR championships 1 × 0 × 2 ×
GDR championships gold Leipzig 1955 10 km walking bronze Leipzig 1957 20 km walking bronze Dresden 1960 20 km walking

Siegfried Lefanczik (born July 4, 1930 in Genthin ; † February 2016 there ) was a German walker .

biography

Lefanczik won the championship title in the 10 km walk at the GDR championships in 1955 . At the European Championships in Stockholm in 1958 , he was seventh in the 20 km walk . At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 , when he was fifth, he was disqualified for poor walking.

In addition to athletics, he worked as a photographer and volunteered for the newspaper Volksstimme . Lefanczik died at the age of 85 after a serious illness.

Web links

• Siegfried Lefanczik in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Mike Fleske: Genthiner Geher dies at the age of 85. Volksstimme , February 27, 2016, accessed on February 12, 2020 .