Peter Frenkel
Peter Frenkel ( born May 13, 1939 in Eckartsberga ) is a German track and field athlete and Olympic champion who in the 1960s and 1970s - starting for the GDR - one of the world's best 20 - km - goers. His greatest achievement is the Olympic gold medal in Munich in 1972 ( 1:26:43 h). Four years later, at the Olympic Games in Montreal, he won the bronze medal.
He already took part in the 1968 Olympic Games, where he finished tenth ( 1:37:21 h). At the European Championships in 1971, he was fourth ( 1:27:52,8 h), at the European Championships in 1974, he gave up the race early on.
1972, the year of his Olympic victory, Peter Frenkel had trained in a vacuum chamber of the East German airline Air Inter, simulating altitude conditions.
During his career, he set two world records in the 20,000 - meter track going on, the first in 1970 ( 1:25:50 h), the second in 1972 ( 1:25:19,4 h; same time as Hans -Georg Reimann ).
When Army Sports Club it brought Peter Frenkel to the major of the NVA. He later studied photography and was in the GDR a well-known sports photographer.
From 1991 to 1998 he was Vice- President of the Association of German Olympian ( GDO). After that, he was spokesman for the athletics clubs OSC Potsdam.
Peter Frenkel started for the ASK Potsdam forward and coached until 1968 when Wilhelm Kustak and then at Hans -Joachim Pathus (later to 2004 walkers national coach ). In his playing days, he was 1.82 m tall and weighed 76 kg.