Uwe Beyer
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Uwe Beyer (born April 14, 1945 in Timmendorfer Strand ; † April 15, 1993 in Belek near Antalya , Turkey ) was a German athlete and occasional actor.
Uwe Beyer was the son of the technical draftsman Erich Beyer, who was his trainer in Kiel and who had participated as a shot putter in qualifications for the Olympic Games planned in Tokyo in 1940 .
Life
Uwe Beyer belonged to Holstein Kiel until 1968 and Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 1969/70 , and from 1971 to USC Mainz . When he competed, he was 1.91 m tall and weighed 110 kg.
Beyer was one of the world's best hammer throwers in the 1960s and 1970s . His greatest successes were the bronze medal at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo , where he started in an all-German team, as well as the victory at the European Championships in Helsinki in 1971 . On July 9, 1971, he improved the world record to 74.90 m at the German Championships in Stuttgart.
For his sporting success he received the silver laurel leaf on December 11, 1964.
Due to his popularity, the athlete without any acting experience was given a leading role as Siegfried in the first part of the film production Die Nibelungen (1966/1967) by Harald Reinl . Beyer was dubbed by Thomas Danneberg . The trained precision engineers concluded after his active career a sports studies and set out in 1976 with a shop in Mainz independently , which persists even after his death.
Uwe Beyer was married. The marriage resulted in the son Eric. Beyer died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1993 during a leisure tennis game in his Turkish holiday resort Belek - presumably a late consequence of years of doping with anabolic steroids . He openly confessed to this in 1981 in PM magazine
Services in detail
- Olympic Games 1964 : Third place ( 68.09 m - 65.64 - 62.91 - invalid - 65.71 - invalid)
- European Championships 1966 : third place ( 67.28 m - 66.20 - invalid - 63.96 - 61.78 - 63.72)
- Olympic Games 1968 : 65.44 m (qualification not met)
- European Championships 1971 : Winner (71.42 - invalid - invalid - 70.50 - invalid - 72.36 m )
- Olympic Games 1972 : fourth place (71.52 m)
- European Championships 1974 : fifth place (71.04 m)
media
- 1966: The Nibelungs, Part 1
- 1970: Why is it so beautiful on the Rhine? (TV movie)
- 1971: Olympia (TV series)
- 1972: Appearance at Dalli Dalli as a candidate
- 1996: Mona M. - With a Woman's Guns (TV series)
literature
- Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society
Web links
- Uwe Beyer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 65.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beyer, Uwe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Timmendorfer beach |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1993 |
| Place of death | Belek , near Antalya ( Turkey ) |