Falk Hoffmann

Falk Hoffmann ( born August 29, 1952 in Chemnitz ) is a former German diver who competed for East Germany.

Falk Hoffmann began at the age of 9 years in DDR his sporting career as an art and diver under his former trainer Ilse Krause. Already in 1967 he made international attention when he won the Junior European Championship title. In 1968, he reached for the first time standards for Olympic participation in Mexico, but for financial reasons could not attend. For the first time he stepped up to the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 and occupied the places where 7 and 9 Four years later, at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, he reached the rank 4 and 6 won at the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 Falk Hoffmann finally gold from the 10 - meter tower. He was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver for this success. In 1977, he also reached at the European Championships from the three- meter board Tier 1 1978, he was in both disciplines Vice World Champion. One time highly controversial decision by a U.S. arbitrator meant that its main competitor, the American Greg Louganis, an already cracked - could repeat jump for alleged poor weather conditions - and failed.

1982 ended Falk Hoffmann his career as an art and diver and worked for four years at the Martin Luther University in Halle as a university teacher. Following this work, the graduate sports teacher became a coach in his old field of activity and trained among others Melanie Frerk, the junior world champion was. In 1999 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the international swimming sport.

After the end of the GDR Falk Hoffmann founded a commercial agency for sports fashion items in Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony- Anhalt. Besides football, the Halle FC Falk Hoffmann played tennis at Delitzsch Tennis Club 1921. In 2002, he was here even national champion Saxony.