Hans Grodotzki
Hans Grodotzki ( born April 4, 1936 in Prussian Holland, East Prussia ) is a former German track and field athlete and Olympic medal winner from the GDR. Within the joint team of both German states he won at the Summer Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 two silver medals in the 5000 - and 10,000 -meter run.
Hans Grodotzki had to leave in 1945 with parents and 2 siblings his hometown; the family came after Menteroda (then county Sondershausen, today Unstrut Hainich- Kreis, Thuringia ). After school he worked as a miner in potash mining and played in their leisure time football and table tennis. He began with the Athletics Training in 1954 after he was struck in a random drive participation. At the age of 20 years, during his military service, he was commanded to Potsdam in 1958 to the then branch of the ASK Vorwärts Berlin, where he began to train intensively and was after one and a half years a member of the East German national team.
On 2 September 1960, he won in 13:44,6 min the silver medal in the 5000-meter run behind the New Zealander Murray Halberg ( 13:43,4 min). Another silver medal he won on 9 September 1960 in a time of 28:37,0 minutes behind Pyotr Bolotnikov (USSR, 28:32,2 min). He is the only German runner who won a medal in the 10,000 meter race at the Olympic Games: Of all the German middle and long distance runners except he succeeded only Gunhild Hoffmeister of winning two medals at one and the same Olympics.
Hans Grodotzki belongs to the ASK Potsdam forward and trained at Curt one. In his playing days, he was 1.75 m tall and 65 kg. 1962 his athletic career was interrupted by an Achilles tendon tear, 1964, he finished it finally. He studied until 1969 at the Pedagogical University " Karl Liebknecht " in Potsdam and became a coach. He was then to 1981 Sports Officer at ASK forward Potsdam, later a civilian employee in the National People's Army. After the end of the GDR, he was employed by the LAC Hallensee Berlin.
Hans Grodotzki lives in Potsdam and has a daughter.
In 1991, Hans Rudolf Grodotzki the Harbig Memorial Award. He was so honored representative of DLV for all athletes from the German Democratic Republic, the yes to 1990 did not belong to the DLV.
German Records
3000 meters:
- 7:58,4 min on 14 June 1959 in Warsaw
- 7:54,6 min on 30 July 1960 in Potsdam
10,000 meters:
- 29:08,8 min on 17 July 1959 in Oslo
- 28:57,8 min on July 17, 1960 in Schweinfurt
- 28:37,0 min on 8 September 1960 in Rome