Günter Mielke
Günter Mielke ( born November 30, 1942 in Berlin, † January 18, 2010 in Auckland, New Zealand ) was a German long-distance runner.
Mielke had begun at the age of 14 years with the running and was active among other things for the clubs SC Charlottenburg, Berlin OSC, ASV Köln, TV Wattenscheid 01, VfL Wolfsburg and LG Neckar -Odenwald. In 1965 he became. Third at the German Championships in the 10,000 meters In 1971 he won the Essen Marathon Around the Baldeneysee. As vice- champion in 1971 and 1972 over this distance, he qualified for the Olympic Games in Munich, but in which he had to give up in the flow. In the same year he became German Vice Champion in the marathon.
In the following years he focused on this track, where he from 1974 to 1977 four times in a row scored the German Jahresbestzeit and a total of twenty remained under 2:20. Shortly before the European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, he retired to an injury to his shin and took only the 20th Place. In 1975 he was in Dülmen German Marathon Champion with almost four minutes ahead. The following year he was behind the eventual Waldemar Cierpinski second at the Karl- Marx-Stadt - marathon and qualified for the Olympic Games in Montreal. Although he suffered a foot injury shortly after the start, he got through the race and finished on the 54th place. In 1977 he won at the German Championships, which were held in a separate start as part of the Berlin Marathon, again the title. In 1979 he became German Vice Champion in the marathon, and in 1981 he was with his personal best of 2:13:58 h second at the Frankfurt Marathon and won at the premiere of the Helsinki Marathon.
In 1982 he presented as Achtzehnter at the Tokyo International Women's Marathon with 2:16:05 h the current German record for the age group M40 on (December 2009). In the class M45 three current national records have been obtained from him, over 5000 meters ( 14:35,1 min, July 27, 1988, Frankfurt am Main ), 10.000 meters ( 30:22,58 min, 2nd July 1988 Kassel) and the marathon ( 2:21:00 h, May 17, 1987, Munich). In the class M55 finally come out about the current records in the 10,000 meters ( 32:29,86 min, 22 April 1997 Darmstadt) and the 10 - km road race ( 32:48 min, March 29th, 1997, Jügesheim ).
Günter Mielke was 1.76 m tall and weighed 62 kg. He was a primary school teacher by profession and later worked among other things as a representative of various running shoe brands and as athletic director of the Frankfurt Marathon in the 1990s. In 2008 he settled with his wife Hedy Brandl in Mintraching.
In January 2010, he broke on the last day of a holiday in New Zealand on a beach in Auckland together while jogging. Although he was resuscitated by a randomly passing nurse and taken to a hospital but died three days later. On February 5, he was buried in Regensburg on Dreifaltigkeitsberg.
Personal Best
- 5000 m: 13:56,0 min, July 2, 1972 Sittard
- 10,000 m: 28:44,59 min, July 22, 1972, Munich
- Marathon: 2:13:58 h, May 17, 1981 Frankfurt am Main