Volker Hadwich

Volker Hadwich becomes DDR champion in 1989

Volker Hadwich (born September 23, 1964 in Magdeburg ) is a former athlete who competed in the GDR until 1990 , he was both in the GDR and after the reunification in the reunified Federal Republic of Germany in the javelin throw .

Volker Hadwich finished third at the GDR championships in 1985 with 80.92 m behind Uwe Hohn and Klaus-Jürgen Murawa. With the new spear used from 1986, Hadwich immediately reached 81.02 m. In 1987 Hadwich finished third at the Universiade with 78.82 m. After finishing sixth at the GDR championships in 1988, Volker Hadwich won the GDR championship title in 1989 with 84.06 m. On September 6, 1989 he threw the javelin in Macerata at 84.84 m and set the last GDR record in javelin throwing, he exceeded the previous best distance of Silvio Warsönke by 70 centimeters. Volker Hadwich missed the 1990 season due to an injury.

At the first all-German championships after the fall of the Wall, Klaus Tafelmeier, a thrower from the West, won ahead of Volker Hadwich and Raymond Hecht , the last two champions of the GDR. Hadwich came to 81.20 m, but was not nominated for the World Championships in Tokyo . In addition to Tafelmeier and Hecht, Peter Blank went to Japan and placed 11th better than the other two Germans. 1992 Hadwich won with 82.26 m at the German championships before Stefan König. The German NOK nominated Volker Hadwich as the only German javelin thrower for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. With 81.10 m he achieved the third-best distance of all throwers in qualification, a distance that would have been fifth in the final. Instead, Volker Hadwich lost his nerve or his strength at the first major championships of his career. With 75.28 m, he took twelfth place in the preliminary fight and was eliminated after three attempts.

Volker Hadwich competed for SC Magdeburg . With a height of 1.96 m, his competition weight was 103 kg.

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898-2005 . 2 volumes, Darmstadt 2005 published via Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft