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athletics competitor

Hans-Georg Reimann is a former East German race walker, who started for the South Carolina Dynamo Berlin and the German Democratic Republic and won two Olympic medals in 20 km racewalking at the Olympic summer games 1972 in Munich he won the third place, and at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal he became the second place.

Career

In the year of his first olympic success, he - synchronously with Peter Frenkel - went a world record (1:25:194 hours). Four years later and he was flag bearer of the German Democratic Republic team at the opening of the Olympic Games, 1976. Reimann became first an engineer for measuring and automatic control.

After end of its sportsman career he worked as trainer for racewalkers.

After the end of the German Democratic Republic he became a pharmacy representative and pulled after Neufahrn bei Freising). Reimann started for South Carolina Dynamo Berlin and trained with Max Weber.

In its match time he was 1.80 meters large and weighed 65 kg.

Achievements

  • He had already won the silver medal (1:36:142 hours) at the 1962 European Championships, 1962 however thereafter nearly ten years without medal remained with international high points.