Gerhard Hartmann
Gerhard Hartmann ( born January 12, 1955 in Reutte ) is an Austrian long-distance runner and former owner of the land records in the marathon.
Originally from Vils in Außerfern athlete played in his youth in the home club football. It was only during his military service, he discovered his talent running and joined the athletics section of the SV Reutte. Overall, he won 58 Austrian Championship title. Even today he stands high in the all-time best lists of Austria:
- 3000 m: 4th place ( 7:50,31 min, August 13, 1986, Zurich )
- 5000 m: 3rd place ( 13:22,30 min, August 6, 1986, Koblenz )
- 10,000 m: 2nd place ( 27:49,35 min, July 5, 1986, Oslo)
His first Austrian record over the marathon distance he set in 1983 with 2:15:54 hours on seventh of the Frankfurt Marathon. In 1984, he improved that mark sixth of the Vienna Spring marathons on 2:15:32 h and 1985 as the winner of the same petition to 2:14:49 h
On April 13, 1986, he joined again at the Spring Marathon Vienna. Despite temperatures just above freezing and intermittent snowfall, he won with four minutes ahead and put it with 2:12:22 h a record which was broken by Weidlinger in 2009. In 1987, he then won in 2:16:10 h for the third time in a row in Vienna.
Hartmann participated in the marathon in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles in part, but did not reach the goal. The European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart, he was ninth in the 10,000 -meter run. In 1987 and 1988 he won the Grand Prix of Bern, 1988 and 1989 the Greifenseelauf. At the Vienna Spring Marathon in 1991, he served as Leading the way to a new record, but crashed halfway and had to retire with an injury on the thigh. After he retired from the professional sports.
Gerhard Hartmann is 1,80 m tall and weighed to competition times 64 kg ( 66 kg today ). By 1985, he started for the SV Reutte, then LAC Innsbruck. He still operates the running daily as a hobby. In addition to his learned profession as a toolmaker, he is also active as running and seminar trainer and is common in running events as braking and Zugläufer go ( eg, 2006, in the Tirol Speed Marathon for the 3:30 hour mark ).