Ulrich Popplow

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Ulrich Popplow (* 1926 ) is a former German athlete and author .

Career

From his youth, Popplow trained in the running competitions in the short distances. As early as the 1940s he was a squad athlete for the German Athletics Association and was supervised and trained by Rudolf Harbig . After graduating from the Felix-Klein-Gymnasium in Göttingen , he studied German language and literature, history and physical exercise at the University of Göttingen from the late 1940s to the early 1950s . At the same time he was successful as an active athlete at the university. In 1948 and 1949 he was German university champion in the short distance.

He achieved his most important sporting success in 1950. That year he won the gold medal at the German University Championships in the 4 x 400 meter relay in the line-up of Wolfgang Wünsche , Heinz Krebs , Jan Berghaus and Ulrich Popplow. For this victory he and other members of the squadron were on 29./30. July 1050 awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Theodor Heuss .

After completing his studies, he became a teacher in the public school service after refusing an assistant position at the university for financial reasons. But he remained part-time science through numerous sports science and sports political publications.

Publications

  • Origin and beginning of physical exercises. In: Olympic fire . 1955, p. 5 ff.
  • Task and meaning of a prehistory of physical exercises. In: physical exercises. 10, 1959, p. 312 ff.
  • Physical education in ancient Greece. In: Contributions to the teaching and research of physical exercises and physical education. Volume 2, K. Hofmann, Schorndorf 1959.
  • Reinhard Heydrich and the exhaustion caused by sport. In: Olympic fire. 8, 1963, pp. 14-20.
  • Rudolf Harbig, from unknown sportsman to world record runner. In: Social and Contemporary History of Sport. , Vol. 2, 1988, p. 8 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Yearbook 2017 of the German Society for the History of Sport Sciences, page 106, note 65
  2. ^ German university championship 1950, men, 4 × 400 m relay
  3. ↑ Sports report of the Federal Government of September 26, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 ...
personal data
SURNAME Popplow, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1926