Karl Hein (athlete)
Hein in 1936 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 11 June 1908 Hamburg, German Empire | |||||||||||||||||
Died | 10 July 1982 (aged 74) Hamburg, West Germany | |||||||||||||||||
Height | 179 cm (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 103 kg (227 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Hammer throw | |||||||||||||||||
Club | SV St. Georg, Hamburg | |||||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||||||||
Personal best | 58.77 (1938)[1][2] | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Karl Hein (11 June 1908 – 10 July 1982) was a German hammer thrower who won a gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin.
By the early 1930s Hein had married and retired from athletics. He resumed competing after watching a film about the 1932 Olympics, and remained active until the late 1950s, winning the national championships in 1936–38 and 1946–47 and placing second in 1956. In 1938 he set two world records and won the European title. In 1962 he was awarded the Rudolf-Harbig-Gedächtnispreis.[1]
Hein died from a stroke aged 74. His son Karl-Peter also competed in the hammer throw, at national level.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Karl Hein. sports-reference.com
- ^ Karl Hein. trackfield.brinkster.net
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- 1900: John Flanagan (USA)
- 1904: John Flanagan (USA)
- 1908: John Flanagan (USA)
- 1912: Matt McGrath (USA)
- 1920: Patrick Ryan (USA)
- 1924: Fred Tootell (USA)
- 1928: Pat O'Callaghan (IRL)
- 1932: Pat O'Callaghan (IRL)
- 1936: Karl Hein (GER)
- 1948: Imre Németh (HUN)
- 1952: József Csermák (HUN)
- 1956: Hal Connolly (USA)
- 1960: Vasily Rudenkov (URS)
- 1964: Romuald Klim (URS)
- 1968: Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN)
- 1972: Anatoliy Bondarchuk (URS)
- 1976: Yuriy Sedykh (URS)
- 1980: Yuriy Sedykh (URS)
- 1984: Juha Tiainen (FIN)
- 1988: Sergey Litvinov (URS)
- 1992: Andrey Abduvaliyev (EUN)
- 1996: Balázs Kiss (HUN)
- 2000: Szymon Ziółkowski (POL)
- 2004: Koji Murofushi (JPN)
- 2008: Primož Kozmus (SLO)
- 2012: Krisztián Pars (HUN)
- 2016: Dilshod Nazarov (TJK)
- 2020: Wojciech Nowicki (POL)
- 2024: Ethan Katzberg (CAN)
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