Wolfgang Jahn (basketball player)

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Wolfgang Jahn (* 1943 / 1944 ) is a former German basketball player .

Life

Jahn played basketball at ASK Vorwärts Leipzig and won several GDR championships with the team, and he also competed in the European Cup. As a national player of the German Democratic Republic , he took part in the European Championships in 1965 and 1967. He was nominated 110 times and is in fourth place in the all-time best list.

Jahn studied at the German University for Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig and graduated in 1974. The title of his diploma thesis was "Standard tactical situations in basketball - systematics - application and effectiveness". He then worked as a sports teacher at the DHfK until the end of the GDR. From 1993 Jahn worked for the German Basketball Association as the head of a streetball project, which was taken over by the Landessportbund Sachsen in 1995 and was continued by Jahn, henceforth as the LSB project manager for youth and streetball.

Furthermore, Jahn worked for the Basketball Association of Saxony for 20 years as a mass sports warden, which he gave up in 2015. In 2012 he was honored for his many years of voluntary work as part of the “Teamwork” award of the German Basketball Association (DBB), and in 2014 Jahn was awarded the DBB's Silver Badge of Honor.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Pearl basket. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Jahn profile, European Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men 1964. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  3. ↑ - national player. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Jahn: Standard tactical situations in the basketball game - systematics - application and effectiveness . DHfK, 1974 ( uni-leipzig.de [accessed July 31, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Basketball-crazy oldie. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  6. ↑ .: BVS :. | News archive | BVS Association Day 2015. Accessed on July 31, 2019 .
  7. ↑ 14th teamwork event in Teutschenthal. German Basketball Association, accessed on July 31, 2019 .
  8. ^ DBB Bundestag ended. German Basketball Association, accessed on July 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Jahn, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century