Uwe Hohn
Uwe Hohn ( * July 16, 1962 in Neuruppin ) is a German athlete who came in by the first documented javelin throw of over 100 meters in the sports history.
Life
Uwe Hohn began in Rheinberg with the javelin. Due to its convincing performance, he received the delegation to the Children and Youth Sports School in Brandenburg, and thus became a member of the ASK forward Potsdam. After several successes at youth level mockery recorded his first international success in 1981 when he won the title at the European Junior Championships in Utrecht and at the same time marked a new continental record. A year later, the Potsdamer also crowned with the seniors to the European champions.
After a year of injury scorn came in 1984 a convincing comeback into competitive mode, as he missed on the 25th May 1984 a new European record of 99.52 meters in the domestic Potsdam the world best by the American Tom Petranoff only 20 centimeters. Nearly two months later, the sport soldier also surpassed that mark and placed with 104.80 m a mythical world record. A possible gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics was the exceptional athletes, however, denied by the boycott of the GDR. For the GDR athletes of the year held harmless in the discharged as a substitute competitions of friendship and exceeded with 94.44 m length the victories of the Olympic champion from 1984, Arto Harkonen (Finland ) by over seven meters.
1985 won scorn at the European Cup and the World Cup. He also dabbled in television show Maverick runner in " match - throwing". His best attempt in front of cameras was measured with 30.68 m, the specified " house record " was 34 meters.
After several surgeries due to a spinal disc damage finally had Hohn in 1987, his susceptibility to injury finally pay tribute and end the athlete 's career. At a size of 1.98 m, it had a competition weight of 116 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 scorn.
After his sports career, he worked as assistant coach. Since his symptoms continued to deteriorate, scorn was temporarily disability pension. He was honorary coach at SC Potsdam, the successor to the forward ASK Potsdam in 1999. Later he worked in Qatar, Australia and China. Uwe Hohn married in 1983, he has a daughter and a son.
The world record and its consequences
The 104.80 m, the achieved Uwe Hohn on July 20, 1984 at the Olympic Day in Berlin Jahnstadion, tipped the scales for a rule change. For security reasons, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF ) introduced with effect from 1 April 1986 a new competition javelin with a modified center of gravity which causes a steeper trajectory and thus a more rapid decrease of the aircraft. Due to the new record list the length of derision an "eternal world record " was. The existing since May 1996 current world record of the Czech Jan Zelezny is 98.48 m.
Sporting successes
- European champion in 1982 with 91.34 m
- Winner World Cup 1985 in Canberra with 96.96 m ( Jahresweltbestleistung )
- Winning the European Cup in Moscow in 1985 with 92.88 m
- Junior European Champion in 1981 with 86.56 m ( European junior record )
- GDR Champion 1984, 1985
- DDR Junior Champion 1980
- DDR Spartakiadesieger 1977, 1979