Stanislav Jungwirth

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Stanislav Jungwirth medal table

1500 meters

CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
European championships
bronze 1954 Bern 3: 45.4 min

Stanislav Jungwirth (born August 15, 1930 in Prachatice , † April 11, 1986 in Prague ) was a Czech middle-distance runner . In the 1950s he set a world record in the 1000m and 1500m , his greatest success at international championships was winning the bronze medal in the 1500m at the European Championships in 1954 .

Jungwith did not begin athletics until 1947. His coaches felt that he had to get faster before he should train more endurance. In 1951 he was able to run the 400 m in 50.0 seconds and the 800 m in 1:51 minutes. Only then did he start training as a 1,500 m runner. This mainly consisted of intensive interval training, during which he never ran slower than the planned 1500 m speed (with trot breaks).

In 1952 he qualified over 1500 m for the Olympic Games , but he was excluded from the team because of his father, who was imprisoned as a dissident. The popular runner Emil Zátopek refused to travel to Helsinki without Jungwirth; only two days after the rest of the Czechoslovak team had arrived there without both of them did the rulers allow Jungwirth to participate, who then traveled with Zátopek. In the Olympic competition, however, Jungwirth retired as seventh in his semifinals with 3: 51.0 minutes. On October 27th he set a world record over the 1000 m in 2: 21.2 minutes . After his bronze medal at the European Championships in 1954, he qualified in 1956 for the Olympic final over 1500 m, but he was sixth 0.6s short of the medal ranks. In the meantime he had increased the scope of the training considerably, but retained the basic principle of intensive interval runs, so that he ended his career exhausted.

His younger brother Tomáš Jungwirth was also a middle-distance runner and Olympic participant.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arnd Krüger (1998): Many roads lead to Olympia. The changes in the training systems for middle and long distance runners (1850-1997), in: N. GISSEL (Hrsg.): Sportliche achievement im Wandel . Hamburg: Czwalina, pp. 41 - 56.
  2. ^ Adam B. Ellick: Emil Zatopek. 1922-2000. In: Running Times Magazine. March 2000, accessed March 15, 2011 .
  3. ^ A b Stanislav Jungwirth in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on September 6, 2018.
  4. ↑ Jaroslav Urbánek: Stanislav Jungwirth. December 1, 2006, accessed March 15, 2011 (Czech).
  5. ↑ Tomáš Jungwirth in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on September 6, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Jungwirth, Stanislav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech middle distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Prachatice
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1986
Place of death Prague