Walter Meier (athlete)

Meier at the GDR championships in 1952

Walter Meier (born August 3, 1927 in Rogätz ; † March 25, 2017 in Halle ) was a German athlete and Olympic participant who - starting for the GDR in a joint German team - won the bronze medal in the decathlon at the European Championships in 1958 .

Sporting successes

At the Olympic Games in 1956 he was sixth (6773 points = 6910 points according to the 1985 table); at the Olympic Games in 1960 , he finished 16th (6000 points = 6116 points according to the 1985 table). From 1953 to 1958 he set seven GDR records in the decathlon, three of which were also all-German bests.

After his active time he worked as a university lecturer at the Martin Luther University Halle, all-round trainer and responsible association trainer in the German Association for Athletics (DVfL) of the GDR, from 1966 in a vocational school in Halle, where he lived as a pensioner. As a writer, he appeared in 1964 with a biography. In 2007, despite his severe visual impairment caused by macular degeneration, he wrote a review of his life from a NAPOLA student to a world-class athlete, in which he also objectively and critically looks at current developments in world and sport politics.

Meier belonged to the SC Chemie Halle . When he competed, he was 1.86 m tall and weighed 85 kg.

Fonts

Around the world as an athlete. Sports publishing house, Berlin 1964.
Interview with myself. Projects, Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-86634-276-7 .
Rhymes about inconsistencies. viademica, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-937494-46-3 .
How I got married And other curiosities. viademica, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-939290-04-9 .

Web links

Literature by and about Walter Meier in the catalog of the German National Library
Walter Meier in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Walter Meier's memorial page. In: Abschied-haben.de. August 3, 1927. Retrieved November 29, 2018 .
↑ (7249 points = 7214 points according to the table from 1985; 11.1 s - 7.04 m - 14.17 m - 1.83 m - 49.1 s - 15.5 s - 39.07 m - 3, 80 m - 49.89 m - 4: 20.6 min)

personal data
SURNAME	Meier, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German athlete, trainer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rogätz , Borde district , Saxony-Anhalt
DATE OF DEATH	March 25, 2017
Place of death	Hall

[abschied-Gedenkse-1] Walter Meier's memorial page. In: Abschied-haben.de. August 3, 1927. Retrieved November 29, 2018 .

[2] (7249 points = 7214 points according to the table from 1985; 11.1 s - 7.04 m - 14.17 m - 1.83 m - 49.1 s - 15.5 s - 39.07 m - 3, 80 m - 49.89 m - 4: 20.6 min)