Hans Reimann

Hans Reimann (born August 24, 1941 in Starrischken, Municipality Heydekrug) is an East German athlete, who starts for the SC Dynamo Berlin and the GDR and won two Olympic medals in 20 km racewalking at the Olympic summer games 1972 in Munich he won the third place (1:27:17 hours), and at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal he became the second place (1:25:14 hours). [ [http://www.tlv-sport.de/ges/tlvges03.htm Thüringer Leichtathleitk-Verband e.V ] ]

He had already won the silver medal (1:36:14.2 hours) at the 1962 European Championships, 1962 however thereafter nearly ten years without medal remained with international high points. In the year of his first olympic success, he - synchronously with Peter Frenkel - went a world record (1:25:19.4 hours). Four years later and he was flag bearer of the GDR team at the opening of the Olympic Games, 1976. [ [http://72.30.186.56/search/cache?p=Hans+Reimann+Dynamo&prssweb=Suche&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&x=wrt&meta=vl%3D&u=www.leichtathletik-dgld.de/debl/H20kmg.txt&w=hans+reimann+dynamo&d=B8OsL_mdOrv9&icp=1&.intl=de Hans Reimann] ] [ [http://www.luise-berlin.de/Kalender/Tag/Jul23.htm Chronik: Berlin am 23. Juli, Fakten Jahr für Jahr ] ] [ [http://www.leichtathletik-dgld.de/athlet/R.htm MÄNNER ] ] Hans Reimann became first an engineer for measuring and automatic control. After end of its sportsman career he worked as trainer for racewalkers. After the end of the GDR he became a pharmacy representative and pulled after Neufahrn (Bavaria). Hans Reimann started for SC Dynamo Berlin and trained with Max Weber. In its match time he was 1.80 meters large and weighed 65 kg.

References

* [http://www.leichtathletik-berlin.de/pages/pdf/Maenner.pdf]