Wolfram Gambke

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Wolfram Gambke (born November 2, 1959 in Pinneberg ) is a former German track and field athlete and Olympic participant who - starting for the Federal Republic of Germany - won the 1984 Olympic javelin throw .

Of the eight javelin throwers placed first at the 1983 World Championships, four were missing from the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles because of the Olympic boycott of the Warsaw Pact states. Another, the reigning German champion Klaus Tafelmeier , was eliminated in the qualification, two throwers finished ninth and tenth. Only the Swede Kenth Eldebrink , sixth at the world championships last year, came through from the favorites and won the bronze medal. With 82.46 m, the German runner-up Wolfram Gambke was in fourth place 1.26 meters behind Eldebrink and won the Olympic medal in his first major international competition.

Two years later, Gambke went to the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart as the reigning German champion . With the new javelin he reached 79.88 m and finished sixth, the German runner-up Klaus Tafelmeier won the title of European champion.

Wolfram Gambke was able to place himself in the top five at the German championships from 1980 to 1988. In 1981 he was second behind Helmut Schreiber , in 1984 and 1985 Gambke was second behind Tafelmeier. He won his only championship title in 1986. Gambke took part in the Universiade three times , in 1985 he won the silver medal there. Wolfram Gambke belonged to the LG Wedel-Pinneberg . In his playing days he was 1.80 m tall and weighed 82 kg.

Wolfram Gambke still lives in Pinneberg today, he works for a subsidiary of the local workers' welfare organization.

Best

  • old spear: 85.90 m (1984)
  • new javelin: 81.30 m (1986)

Explanation: After Uwe Hohn had thrown the old spear over 100 meters in 1985, a new spear became mandatory from 1986, which had changed throwing properties.

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society