Hartwig Gauder
Hartwig Gauder ( born November 10, 1954 in Vaihingen, Baden- Württemberg ) is a former German track and field athlete and Olympic champion who - starting for the GDR and later the wiedervereingte Germany - in the 1980s and 1990s to the world's best 50 - km goers belonged. His greatest successes are the titles profits at the Olympic Games in 1980 and at the World Athletics Championships 1987 in Rome.
Career
Hartwig Gauder spent his early childhood in southern Germany, to his family in 1960 in East Germany to Ilmenau ( Thuringia) moved because his mother had inherited a house there. As a walker he first started out on the 20 - km route. It was founded in 1975 and 1976 GDR champion and set 1978 a European record in the 20,000 - meter track Walking ( 1:24:22,7 h). After he had only become seventh at the European Championships, he switched to the 50 - km route. When in 1980 he won his Olympic victory, he played only his fourth race at this distance.
The 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles escaped him because of the boycott of the GDR.
According to the IAAF World Championships 1993 he took leave from competitive sports, but remained active and operational Walking. 1994, at an an initially unexplained decrease its efficiency, which in 1995 turned out to be viral infection of his heart - infected during a built surveying under his architectural studies in a former poultry farm as doctors suspected later. In 1996 he received first an artificial heart and 1997 a donor heart with which he barely two years later, the New York City Marathon denied. Five years later, he fulfilled another dream: As the first man after a heart transplant, he climbed in August 2003, the sacred Fuji -san, Japan's highest mountain. Hartwig Gauder is a graduate architect and worked from 2007 to 2013 at the University Hospital in Jena, from 2013 in the Thuringian Ministry of Social Affairs and Family Health. He is the general secretary of the association athletes for organ donation and is second President of the Association children with organ transplants. In addition, patron of the German Sepsis Society, Advisory Board of the German Society for Prevention and Rehabilitation in cardiology, a board member of the German Sepsis Foundation and a frequent guest of the German Foundation for Organ Transplantation.
In his playing days, he started for the SC Turbine Erfurt and coached at Siegfried Herrmann. He was 1.86 m tall at this time and weighed 71 kg.