Werner Lueg
Werner Lueg (born September 16, 1931 in Brackwede , zu Bielefeld , † July 13, 2014 in Gehrden near Hanover) was a German athlete who won the bronze medal in the 1,500-meter run at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki . On June 29, 1952, Werner Lueg ran a 1500 meter world record in 3: 43.0 minutes in Berlin , in which he equalized the old best performance of Swedes Gunder Hägg and Lennart Strand . He is the only German athlete besides Otto Peltzer who set a world record on this route. Lueg, who lived in Gevelsberg at the time of his sporting successes , had a competition weight of 64 kg with a height of 1.76 m and started for the SF (Sportfreunde) Gevelsberg. He also started for TuS Iserlohn and Barmer TV . He was mostly trained by Arthur Lambert, who favored group training. In 1952 all forms of training of the time met in Germany, so that in 1952 three Germans over 1500 m were represented at the Olympic Games. For his sporting successes he received the silver bay leaf in 1952 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1500-METER RUN: A huge portion of idealism . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 1952 ( online ).
- ↑ Arnd Krüger (1998) Many roads lead to the Olympics. The changes in the training systems for middle and long distance runners (1850-1997), in: N. GISSEL (Hrsg.): Sportliche achievement im Wandel. Hamburg: Czwalina, pp. 41 - 56.
Web links
- Werner Lueg in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Werner Lueg just missed gold in Helsinki in 1952. (derwesten.de)
- Werner Lueg in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
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| SURNAME | Lueg, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete and Olympic medalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brackwede , to Bielefeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 2014 |
| Place of death | Gehrden near Hanover |