Uwe Freimuth

Uwe Freimuth ( born September 10, 1961 in Rathenow ) is a retired German athlete, who competed for East Germany, and today's sports scientists. He held with 8792 points, the DDR record in the decathlon.

Life

At the World Championships in 1983 he scored 8433 points ( 8469 points, according to current rating ) and fourth place with 45 points behind third-placed Siegfried Wentz. In July 1984, he applied to a decathlon in Potsdam on the DDR record. 1986 at the European Championships in Stuttgart, he was charged with 8197 points in sixth place. In Seoul at the 1988 Olympics, he finished with 7860 points, the 18th Place.

Uwe Freimuth was East German champion in the decathlon in the years 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1988. According to the 1988 Olympic Games, he ended his active career. Overall, it reached more than 8000 points in 24 contests.

He started for the forward ASK Potsdam. At a height of 1.91 m his competition weight was 92 kg. In the becoming public knowledge after the fall of documents to the state doping in the GDR was found in the doped athletes also the name of Freimuth.

In the early 1980s he studied Sports at the German University of Physical Culture ( DHfK ) in Leipzig and received his PhD later. After his playing career was Uwe Freimuth, among other coach in Malaysia and regional trainer in Bavaria. He was a research associate at the sports center of the Julius -Maximilians -Universität Würzburg until the end of the summer term 2007. Starting in October 2007, he led the development department of the Malaysian Sports Institute in Kuala Lumpur. From 2007 to 2008 he developed a new online system for training analyzes. From October 2009-2011 led Freimuth, on behalf of the DOSB and the Foreign Office, as sports director of the Vietnamese Association of Athletics Federations a long term project in Hanoi. Since September 2013 teaches Freimuth, Professor of Sport and Event Management at the Business and Information, Technology School in Berlin and Hamburg.

His twin brother Jörg Freimuth won 1980 Olympic bronze medal in the high jump. Uwe Freimuth was at times with Anke Tröger, European Junior Champion in 1981 in the heptathlon, married, with whom he has twins Hanno and Rico Freimuth. Hanno was temporarily at the junior national team in basketball, while Rico occurs as a decathlete in his father's footsteps.

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