Manfred Bock
Manfred Bock ( born May 28, 1941 in Hamburg, † 31 October 2010 Uetersen ) was a German athlete, decathlete and Olympic athletes at the Olympic Games in 1960.
Life
Bock was born in Hamburg in 1941 and was regarded as a teenager as a good all-rounder. Special talent he showed the high jump, where he participated as 18 -year-old skipped the 1.90 meters, and later in the pole vault. The pole vault, he learned in the home garden, where he jumped with a bamboo rod over the taut clothesline of his mother. At age 19 he played his first ten fights in Germany.
At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960, he finished in tenth place ( 6894 points = 7006 points according to the table in 1985: 11.4 s - 6.79 m - 12.03 m - 1,85 m - 50,5 s - 16, 1 s - 37.69 s - 3.90 m - 63.63 m - 4:27,6 min) in 1962, he won the European Championships in 1962 the bronze medal in the decathlon ( 7835 points = 7565 points after the table from 1985: 10. , 8 s - 6.96 m - 13.25 m - 1,86 m - 48,6 s - 14,7 s - 39.47 m - 3.90 m - 62.85 m - 4:22,9 min. ) in the same year he became German champion in the decathlon.
In the spring of 1963 he traveled to California for muscle training to increase his chances for a medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964. Rather than improve, he deteriorated in the USA. As the best German decathlete he was the weakest - according to the results achieved - all for Tokyo in question German decathlete back. The reason was that he had expected in California with the support that was clearly not intended for him. Bock did not get the hoped- university scholarship.
He improved when countries fight the decathlete on 6 and 7 June 1964 between Germany and Switzerland, the German decathlon record at 8326 points. He surpassed the old record of German Willi Holdorf by more than 241 points. After this success he won in the "eternal" world rankings to sixth place behind Yang Chuan - Kwang ( Nationalist China ) with 9121 points, Mulkey (USA) 8709, Rafer Johnson ( USA) 8683, jury Kuzenko (USSR) with 8360 and Vasily Kuznetsov (USSR) with 8357 points.
After his sporting achievements he made his studies at the Cologne Sports College with a degree in physical education teacher. Following a stint in Wattenscheid Manfred Bock went in 1973 as a physical education teacher at the Uetersener Ludwig Meyn -Gymnasium, where he worked until 2004.
Manfred Bock was an avid basketball player at SC Rist Wedel and was instrumental in the birth of the basketball department of TSV Uetersen, he also was a coach at his hometown club TSV Uetersen and the Uetersener tennis club. He died at the age of 69 of a heart attack.
Manfred Bock also was a member of the Hamburger SV.