Uwe sourdough

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Sourdough in 1977

Uwe Sauerteig (born September 24, 1957 ) is a German speed skating trainer and former speed skater.

Life

Sourdough played ice hockey from 1964 , and from 1970 he attended children's and youth sports school . When state funding for the sport of ice hockey was discontinued in the German Democratic Republic , he devoted himself to speed skating. Two years after changing sport, sourdough won gold at the Spartakiade over the 500-meter course. Later he was also the 5000 meter Spartakiad winner and won the youth competition of friendship held by the Eastern Bloc countries .

In 1976 he was the first ever Erfurt participant in a Junior World Championship. In 1978 he won silver at the Junior World Championships over the 3000-meter course. The sourdough running for the SC Turbine Erfurt was GDR champion five times: 1977 in the sprint all-around, 1985 over 1500 meters and 1979, 1985 and 1986 over 5000 meters. He took part in 1979, 1982, 1985 and 1986 in the all-around world championship and in 1977, 1979, 1985 and 1986 in the European championship. His best World Cup placement was 14th place (1982), at the European Championship he was fourth as his best result in the continental championship. Because of Achilles tendon problems, he had to end his career as a competitive athlete.

From 1986, Sauerteig worked as a trainer in Erfurt. In 1987 he completed his diploma thesis at the German University of Physical Culture (title: “On the dynamics of load design in training of speed skaters in the course of 1984/85 - a contribution to the optimization of the training structure in the LZA area of ​​men using the example of an older and younger athlete from the national Peak [long-term endurance] ").

He worked at SC Turbine Erfurt in the junior division and even after the end of the GDR he remained youth and support coach at the successor club ESC Erfurt . He took over the supervision of speed skaters at the Pierre-de-Coubertin-Gymnasium Erfurt. From 1994 to 2014 he was Stephan Gneupel's assistant trainer and worked in this role in the training group that included athletes such as Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann and Franziska Schenk .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Thomas Recknagel: Ice athletes with body and soul . In: Landessportbund Thüringen eV (Hrsg.): Thüringensport. The magazine of the Landessportbund Thüringen eV June 2017, p. 32, 33 .
  2. ↑ a b Uwe sourdough | Association trainer | SpeedSkatingNews. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
  3. ↑ On the dynamics of the load design in training of speed skaters in the course of 1984/85. a contribution to the optimization of the training structure in the LZA area of ​​men using the example of an older and younger athlete from the national top [long-term endurance] n. January 30, 2002, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Contact person - Ice sports - Pierre-de-Coubertin-Gymnasium Erfurt - Special school for sports. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sourdough, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German speed skater
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1957