Willi Wuelbeck
Willi Wuelbeck 
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| birthday | 18th December 1954 | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Oberhausen , Germany | ||||||||||||
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| discipline | 800 meter run | ||||||||||||
| Best performance | 1: 43.65 min | ||||||||||||
| society | TV Wattenscheid | ||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||
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| last change: August 24, 2015 | |||||||||||||
Willi Wülbeck (born December 18, 1954 in Oberhausen ) is a former German athlete and Olympic participant who - starting for Germany - was one of the world's best 800-meter runners in the 1970s and 1980s . His greatest success was winning the first ever World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1983 . For this he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Carstens in 1983.
Career
At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , Wülbeck took fourth place (1: 45.26 min). From 1974 to 1983 he was German champion ten times in a row, in 1973 second in the Junior European Championships (1: 47.57 min), in 1974 and 1982 eighth in the European Championships and in 1977 and 1983 winner of the European Cup. His German records over 800 meters (1: 43.65 min), run when he won in Helsinki in 1983, and 1000 meters (2: 14.53 min on July 1, 1980 in Oslo) are unbroken to date. He was looked after by national coach Paul Schmidt and association doctor Alois Mader .
Wülbeck started for Rot-Weiß Oberhausen until 1974 , from 1975 to 1977 for SG Osterfeld and from 1978 for TV Wattenscheid . In his playing days he was 1.86 m tall and weighed 71 kg. Wülbeck studied sport and biology from 1977 to 1984 .
Willi Wülbeck ended his sports career in 1986 and then worked in the PR department of a sporting goods manufacturer and as a freelance journalist for RTL . He later started a sports marketing agency. From 1992 to 2006 Wülbeck was chairman of the ASV Duisburg athletics club . In 2010 he opened his own sports school. He lives in Oberhausen.
Best times
Awards
- 1984: Rudolf Harbig Memorial Prize
- 1985: Citizen of the Ruhr area , awarded by the Pro Ruhrgebiet association
Publications
- Wülbeck, Willi: Running training with Willi Wülbeck. The 10 Successful Steps , 1988, ISBN 3892840342
Web links
- Portrait at Leichtathletik.de
- Sportschule Willi Wülbeck ( Memento from May 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Archives: Sports Awards (Silver Laurel): Award of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the athletes Patriz Ilg, Willi Wülbeck, Jürgen Hingsen, Siegfried Wentz, Andreas Rizzi, Jens Schulze and Guido Kratschmer Signature BArch B 122/29198
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| SURNAME | Wuelbeck, Willi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete and Olympian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 18th December 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberhausen |