Uwe Potteck

Uwe Potteck (born May 1, 1955 in Wittenberge ) is a German sports shooter .

Career

Potteck began his sporting career as a wrestler with the Lokomotive Wittenberge association. It was not until 1974 at the officers' college of the GDR People's Navy in Stralsund that his talent as a marksman was discovered and promoted by Corvette Captain Gerhart Boldt . Then he was delegated to the Army Sports Association Forward Frankfurt (Oder) , where his results skyrocketed. Until 1976 Uwe Potteck had no international successes, he was only second in the GDR championships behind Harald Vollmar .

GDR national coach Heinz Joseph nominated Potteck together with Vollmar for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal . There Uwe Potteck was completely surprisingly Olympic champion in the free pistol discipline with a new world record of 573 rings ahead of Harald Vollmar . At the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 Potteck was also part of the GDR squad, but only finished 16th. In 1984 in Los Angeles he was denied participation by the boycott of the GDR. In 1988 in Seoul Uwe Potteck took part again, this time together with his younger brother Jens Potteck , in the GDR team.

Even after the fall of the Wall, he was a member of the German national team in the Free Pistol and Air Pistol disciplines for several years . He is multiple German champion in both disciplines. Uwe Potteck resigned from the national team at the end of the 1990s, but he is still an active pistol shooter in the Bundesliga team of PSV Olympia Berlin . Even at German championships he still takes top places with the air pistol and the free pistol. At large shooting sports events, Uwe Potteck is part of the team of service technicians at the gun manufacturer Feinwerkbau .

Awards

1976: Patriotic Order of Merit of the GDR in silver

1976: Ernst Schneller Medal in gold

1986: Patriotic Order of Merit of the GDR in silver

1989: IOC Olympic badge of honor

literature

Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .
Olaf W. Reimann: Potteck, Uwe . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Uwe Potteck in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Uwe Potteck in the database of the International Shooting Sport Federation (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Herbert Ewe (ed.): The history of the city of Stralsund , Böhlau, Weimar 1984, p. 453.
↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Beck, Hans-Joachim: Sport shooting in the GDR from the beginning to 1990 . Ed .: Deutscher Schützenbund eV Wiesbaden 2002, p. 478 .
↑ Neues Deutschland, October 15, 1986, p. 7.

personal data
SURNAME	Potteck, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German marksman
DATE OF BIRTH	May 1, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wittenberg

[1] Herbert Ewe (ed.): The history of the city of Stralsund , Böhlau, Weimar 1984, p. 453.

[2] About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in silver. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).

[:0-3] Beck, Hans-Joachim: Sport shooting in the GDR from the beginning to 1990 . Ed .: Deutscher Schützenbund eV Wiesbaden 2002, p. 478 .

[4] Neues Deutschland, October 15, 1986, p. 7.