Walter Oberste

Walter Oberste
nation	BR Germany
birthday	December 25, 1933
place of birth	Westhofen ,  German Empire
size	184 cm
Weight	73 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	47.2 s (400 m)
society	OSV Hörde
Trainer	Woldemar Gerschler
status	resigned
Medal table
Summer Universiade 1 × 1 × 0 × German championships 3 × 1 × 2 × German indoor championships 1 × 0 × 1 ×
Universiade gold Turin 1959 4 × 100 m silver Turin 1959 100 m  German championships gold Berlin 1956 4 × 400 m silver Berlin 1956 400 m gold Düsseldorf 1957 4 × 400 m bronze Hanover 1958 Pentathlon gold Stuttgart 1959 4 × 400 m bronze Stuttgart 1959 400 m  German indoor championships bronze Frankfurt am Main 1956 400 m gold Berlin 1959 4 × 400 m

Walter Oberste (born December 25, 1933 in Westhofen , today Schwerte ) is a former German sprinter who specialized in the 400-meter run .

Life

Walter Oberste, who started for OSV Hörde , came fourth in the 4 x 400 meter relay at the 1956 Olympic Games . A year later at the World University Games in 1957 and the Summer Universiade in 1959 , Oberste won silver in the 400 m and gold in the 4-by-400-meter relay .

He set his personal best of 47.2 s in 1959.

After his career as an athlete, he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the sports science department at the University of Münster and taught theology and sports until his retirement in 1996. He was also the German national sprint coach from 1968 to 1972.

Publications

• Walter Oberste (author): Sensorimotor performance at low start and relay run , publisher: Hofmann, Schorndorf 1978, ISBN 978-3-7780-7161-8 , 207 pp.

Web links

• Walter Oberste in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Olympic Games, sore muscles to Melbourne, mirror edition of December 19, 1956

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sensorimotor performance in the low start and relay run, Walter Oberste in the catalog of the German National Library