Toni Nice

Toni Nett (born December 28, 1912 - April 19, 2003 ) was a German sports scientist .

In 1939 Toni Nett completed his studies as a gymnastics and sports teacher at the Reichsakademie für Leibesübungen in Berlin with an additional qualification as a specialist sports teacher for athletics. After the war and being a prisoner of war , he began his journalistic work on training methods in sport from Stuttgart , partly together with his wife Elfriede.

On September 1, 1954, Nett became a freelance “Lehrmittelwart” of the German Athletics Association (DLV); In 1955 he founded the independent The Teaching of Athletics as a supplement (inner two double pages, weekly) of the magazine Leichtathletik (Verlag Bartels & Wernitz, Berlin) . From July 1, 1958, he was given a permanent position as a clerk for "teaching and teaching materials". He called for the creation of training focuses and - following the example of the USA (here he worked closely with Fred Wilt ) and the " Eastern Bloc " - training centers for top athletes as well as continuous training for the trainers. In the 1960s he co-founded the International Track & Field Coaches Association and later the European Athletics Teachers Association, which he chaired for a long time. During this time he organized numerous congresses at home and abroad. Even if he favored scientific training over natural training , for him the most important thing was success. Therefore, he presented all training systems and also presented motion studies of still runs with series of images , even if this procedure belonged to a bygone era.

Toni and Elfriede Nett, pioneers in this field, also created numerous educational films as well as educational picture series with which the books and the magazine Leichtathletik were illustrated, developed in the domestic darkroom.

Publications (selection)

• Modern training of the world's best medium and long distance athletes . Bartels et al. Wernitz, Munich / Berlin / Frankfurt 1977.
• With Elfriede Nett: running style of the world's best . Bartels et al. Wernitz, Munich / Berlin / Frankfurt 1968.
• Athletics and school sports in the USA . Publishing house for sports and physical exercises, Berlin 1953.
• Tactics in short, medium and long distance running . Hofmann, Schorndorf 1950.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Winfried Joch: Toni Nett on his 100th birthday: "... no honey licking". Track and field information , pp. 20-21 , accessed on January 29, 2014 (4/2012). 
2. ↑ Arnd Krüger (1998): Many roads lead to Olympia. The changes in the training systems for medium and long distance runners (1850–1997), in: N. GISSEL (Hrsg.): Sportliche Leistungs im Wandel. Hamburg: Czwalina, pp. 41 - 56.
3. ↑ Sports Science. (No longer available online.) Simi.com, archived from the original on February 1, 2014 ; accessed on January 29, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.