Hans-Joachim Walde

Hans -Joachim Walde ( born June 28, 1942 in the village of glasses, Silesia, † April 18, 2013 in Jever ) was a German athlete and physician.

Life

Walde won for the Federal Republic two Olympic medals in the decathlon:

• At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, he raced in the joint German team for the Federal Republic and won the bronze medal ( 7809 points; individual performances: 11,0 s - 7.21 m - 14.45 m - 1.96 m - 49.4 s - 15.3 s - 43.15 m - 4.10 m - 62.90 m - 4:37,0 min).
• At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, he took the team of the Federal Republic in part and placed second ( 8111 points; individual performances: 10,9 s - 7.64 m - 15.13 m - 2.01 m - 49.0 s - 14.8 s - 43.54 m - 4.30 m - 71.62 m - 4:58,5 min).

The European Athletics Championships 1971, Hans -Joachim Walde third parties. The competition at the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, he had to stop after an injury.

Hans -Joachim Walde was a member of the USC Mainz. In its competition time, he was 1.91 m tall and weighed 89 kg.

Walde studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1972 at the University of Mainz. He was later chief physician of the range sports medicine in Northwest Hospital in Sanderbusch, Friesland.