Siegfried Valentin

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Siegfried Valentin 1958 at the Berlin Forest Running Championships

Siegfried Valentin (born February 23, 1936 in Wallwitz , Guben district ) is a former German athlete from the GDR .

Career

The middle-distance runner turned on 9 August 1958 in Poznan with the national team, the GDR 4 × 1500 m world record on, on July 23, 1963 he achieved this in Potsdam yet again. On July 19, 1960, he set a world record in the 1000-meter run in Potsdam with a time of 2: 16.7 minutes, making him the GDR's first world record holder in a single discipline.

He was four times GDR champion in the 1,500 meter run : 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1964; In 1964 he also won the indoor title. Between 1958 and 1960 he set eight GDR records in the 800-meter run , 1000-meter run and 1500-meter run.

At the Olympic Games in 1960 and 1964 , he was eliminated in the lead-up to the 1,500-meter run (1960: 3: 46.9 min; 1964: 3: 44.9 min).

In 1959 he was the winner of the World Student Games in the 800-meter run (1: 49.3 min) in Vienna.

Siegfried Valentin belonged to the ASK Vorwärts Berlin , where he was trained by Curt Eins . During his competition time he was 1.73 m tall and 63 kg. He practiced the interval training recommended by Ewald Mertens and propagated by Woldemar Gerschler as early as 1933 , which was enriched with Soviet periodization elements.

Best times

  • 800 meters: 1: 46.8 min (1960)
  • 1000 meters: 2: 16.7 min (1960)
  • 1500 meters: 3: 38.7 min (1960)
  • 3000 meters: 8: 06.4 min (1959)
  • 5000 meters: 13: 56.8 min (1964)

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898-2005 . 2 volumes, Darmstadt 2005 published via Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Donath, Rolf, Ewald Mertens: Medium-distance and obstacle course: technology, training, tactics. Berlin (O): Sportverlag, 1960.

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SURNAME Valentin, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Wallwitz , district of Guben