Werner Zandt

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Werner Zandt athletics
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday October 20, 1927
place of birth Stuttgart
size 168 cm
Weight 57 kg
job Chemograph
date of death October 13, 2009
Career
discipline sprint
Best performance 10.5 s ( 100 m )
21.4 s ( 200 m )
society Stuttgart Kickers
Medal table
German championships 5 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze

Werner Zandt (born October 20, 1927 in Stuttgart ; † October 13, 2009 there ) was a German athlete and soccer player . As a sprinter, he was German champion five times and took part in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki .

Life

Werner Zandt was the son of the sprinter Hugo Zandt, famous after the end of the First World War . His own sporting passion was first of all football, where he joined the Stuttgarter Kickers . At the age of 15, Zandt became a flak helper . In 1944, he won a Sprinter Flak Championship in 10.9 seconds. Despite being seriously wounded in an air raid, Zandt was drafted into the Wehrmacht , but was only used in home service. During this time he trained as a chemographer .

Athletic career

After the end of the war, Zandt initially played football again in the A-youth of the Stuttgarter Kickers. He came in the major league season 1946/47 on the 35th and 36th game day to appearances in the first team (on June 8, 1947 against Phoenix Karlsruhe and on June 15, 1947 at Eintracht Frankfurt ).

At the Stuttgart city run in 1948, Werner Zandt ran the 100 meters with football boots in 11.3 seconds, which brought him to the kickers athletics. In the same year he started at the German athletics championships in Nuremberg , where he was runner-up over 200 meters behind Leo Lickes from Krefeld .

At the German athletics championships in 1950 in Stuttgart's Neckar Stadium , Zandt was German champion over 100 meters with 10.6 seconds, which means he also set a new annual record. He also won the championship title over 200 meters in 21.6 s. With the 4 x 100 meter relay , Zandt just missed the medal ranks with 4th place.

He could not defend his double championship at the German championships in 1951 . Over 100 meters he was third in a heart-stopping final behind Heinz Fütterer and Peter Kraus , and over 200 meters he was second behind the then 19-year-old Kraus. As in the previous year, there was fourth place with the 4 x 100 meter relay.

The sporting highlight for Werner Zandt was the year 1952. At the German championships in the Olympiastadion Berlin , he won the titles over 100 meters and 200 m. He was also considered a German hope for the Olympic Games in Helsinki . There he was eliminated over 200 meters in the semifinals with 21.7 s and over 100 meters in the quarterfinals with 10.8 s. With the 4 x 100 meter relay, he was eliminated in the preliminary round.

At the 4 x 100 meter relay competition held in Hamm in August , he was again German champion with the Stuttgarter Kickers team.

After the end of his athletics career, he laced his football boots again and competed for the Stuttgart SC in the 1st amateur league Württemberg 1954/55 . At the final of the WFV Cup against SpVgg Trossingen on July 23, 1955 in Tübingen , Zandt contributed with a goal to the Stuttgart's 5-0 victory.

In an overview of the most successful German sprinters, which the sports journalist Heinz Vogel had compiled after the finals positions of German runners for the period from 1946 to 1966, Zandt took fourth place behind Manfred Germar , Heinz Fütterer and Leo Pohl .

Professionally, Zandt was the representative of a sporting goods company and thus remained connected to athletics.

Werner Zandt was an honorary member of the Kickers and VfB Stuttgart and died a few days before his 82nd birthday on October 13, 2009 after a long illness.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Raphael Kappel: “The German Football League 1946–1963. Volume 2: Südwest, Süd, Endrunden “, Sport- und Spielverlag Edgar Hitzel GmbH, Hürth, 1989, pp. 198f., ISBN 3-9802172-3-X .
  2. ↑ a b c d Athletics - German Championships (200 m - men) on sport-komplett.de, accessed on May 21, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c Athletics - German Championships (100 m - men) on sport-komplett.de, accessed on May 21, 2016.
  4. ↑ “Colorful Sport Palette” in: “Upward: Youth Magazine of the German Trade Union Federation (Brit. Zone)”, No. 16/17, Volume 3 of August 12, 1950, p. 27 (PDF; 781 KB), accessed on May 21 2016.
  5. ↑ Men's 200 m - Athletics - Helsinki 1952 Summer Olympics ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at games-encyclo.org, accessed May 21, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / games-encyclo.org
  6. ↑ Men's 100 m - Athletics - Helsinki 1952 Summer Olympics ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at games-encyclo.org, accessed May 21, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / games-encyclo.org
  7. ↑ wfv Cup results for men since 1951 on the homepage of the Württemberg Football Association , accessed on May 21, 2016.
  8. ↑ Football Almanac: WFV-Pokal 1954/55 on "Spätzleskick" from July 12, 2014, accessed on May 21, 2016.
  9. ^ "The underestimated German sprinter: Knickenberg", in Schwäbische Zeitung of December 19, 1966, p. 10
  10. ^ Obituary by Werner Zandt on Stuttgarter Kickers Newscenter from October 22, 2009, accessed on May 21, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Zandt, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 2009
Place of death Stuttgart