Karl-Hans Riehm
Karl- Hans Riehm ( born May 31, 1951 in Konz ) is a former German track and field athlete.
For the Federal Republic of starting, he belonged in the 1970s and 1980s to the world's best hammer throwers. His greatest achievement was winning the silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
When Whit Sports Festival 1975 in Rehlingen- Siersburg (Saarland) succeeded Riehm to stay 76,66 m by Alexei Spiridonov in all six litters over the old world record distance. After each Bestweiten of 76.70 m and 77.56 m, it finally improved the record to 78.50 m. At a meeting in 1978 in Heidenheim succeeded Karl- Hans Riehm by Boris Saitschuk as the second man to hurl the hammer over the 80 -meter mark under competition conditions. With 80.32 meters he turned once again to a hammer throw world record.
In 1982 he was awarded the Rudolf- Harbig Memorial Prize of the German Athletics Association.
After his playing career, Karl- Hans Riehm admitted in an interview to have taken anabolic steroids tablets to a small extent for improved regenerative capacity. For increased performance to the mid-seventies he further stated: " What has advanced me crucial were the professional training opportunities as a regular soldier. Added to this was the ... invented by my coach Ernst Klement ingenious improvement in the hammer throw technique. We were leading in the world. "
Karl- Hans Riehm belonged to 1976 under coach Ernst Klement the TV Germania Trier, in 1978 the television Wattenscheid. In addition to athletics Riehm operation over many years also Rasenkraftsport the RKV Ensdorf / Saar and could thus contribute to the success of this club with a total of three team championships and more than 200 individual titles. Even today he is in the record list of DRTV ( German Rasenkraftsport and Tauziehverband ) in the class seniors 1 over 87 kilograms, with a width of 79.44 meters, set up for the RKV Ensdorf on May 5, 1984 in Augsburg, performed as the record holder. In its competition time he was 1.88 meters tall and weighed 110 kg. The interior designer is married with two children and led until 2012, which was acquired by his father building and furniture carpentry, Konz From his early youth, especially since the end of his hammer thrower career, he is an active player on county league level for decades the table tennis connected sports.