Wolfgang Heinig

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Wolfgang Heinig (left) and Gesa Krause, trained by him, at the evening sports festival in Pfungstadt (2017)

Wolfgang Heinig (born February 27, 1951 in Torgau , GDR ) is a German athletics trainer .

Life

Heinig attended the children's and youth sports school in Leipzig from 1965 to 1971. As an active person, his best times over 100 meters were 10.8 seconds and over 200 meters 22.0 seconds. After completing his sports studies in 1975, he initially worked as a youth trainer before taking care of competitive athletes at the German University for Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig, including his future wife Katrin Dörre-Heinig . He has been married to the former German long-distance runner since 1992 . They live together in Erbach (Odenwald) .

From 2013 to the end of 2016 he was head national trainer running / walking and national trainer long distance / marathon at the German Athletics Association as well as the Hessian state trainer run and trained the junior European champion of 2011 in the 3000 m obstacle course , Gesa Felicitas Krause , the middle distance runner Homiyu Tesfaye at Eintracht Frankfurt and his daughter Katharina Heinig . After retiring as national coach at the end of 2016, he remained a coach at the federal base in Frankfurt. From 1990 to 2004 he was national coach for long distances and marathons.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Wolfgang Heinig: From 2017 pensioner with demanding part-time job. In: Leichtathletik.de. February 7, 2019, accessed February 7, 2019 .
  2. ^ Katrin Dörre: A career in East and West , FAZ , November 7, 2009
  3. a b Wolfgang Heinig becomes national coach , Darmstädter Echo November 3, 2012
  4. ^ DLV national trainer / DLV discipline trainer , accessed on August 12, 2013
  5. ^ Wolfgang Heinig on the Eintracht Frankfurt website