Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske
Horst -Rüdiger Schlöske, born as Horst -Rüdiger Peacock ( born January 1, 1946 in Berlin ) is a former German track and field athlete and Olympian, who - starting for the Federal Republic of Germany - the late 1960s and early 1970s to the world's top 400 meter runners belonged.
Horst -Rüdiger Schlöske belonged from 1969 to the sports club ASV Berlin, then the LG North Berlin and from 1974 the TSV Siemens Berlin. His coach Hermann Schlöske adopted in 1968 the then antretenden under his birth name Horst -Rüdiger Peacock athletes. In his playing days, he was 1.77 m tall and weighed 66 kg.
Schlöske won in three appearances at European Athletics Championships medals. He had his greatest success at the European Championships in 1971, when he became European Champion with the 4 x 400 - meter relay in the cast Schlöske, Jordan, Jellinghaus, Köhler, 1974, he won silver together with Rolf Ziegler, Hermann Köhler and Karl Honz. Even at the European Championships 1969, he won a bronze medal together with Ingo Roeper, and Martin Gerhard Hennige Jellinghaus. A medal in the individual race was denied him, in 1974, he retired in the intermediate run about 400 meters from. At the Olympic Games in 1972 Horst -Rüdiger Schlöske was the best German district Meiler. In the final 400 meters he was in fifth best European, with a podium finish of the season, he missed almost as Germany behind Kenya, Britain and France fourth.
1977 married Schlöske in Berlin. After finishing his active career, he worked as a coach and trained the way to the masseur on. This was followed by training as a medical practitioner, the profession he practiced in private practice in Berlin until 1991 from. He lives since 1992 in La Orotava, Tenerife. There he runs a healing center. His son Roberto Schlöske (LG Nike Berlin) was 2000 at the beginning of de year also a successful runner, both the 400 meters flat and over the 400 -meter hurdles.