Grab von Karl Hein - Hamburg, Deutschland
N 53° 37.548 E 010° 02.180
32U E 568537 N 5942388
Grave of the 1936 Olympic hammer throw champion Karl Hein at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.
Waymark Code: WM14E9Y
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Date Posted: 06/22/2021
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Grave of the 1936 Olympic hammer throw champion Karl Hein at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg (AA6, 83).
Karl Hein (* 11 June 1908 in Hamburg; † 10 July 1982 ibid.) was a German hammer thrower and Olympic champion.
As a young man he was a discus thrower, shot putter and all-rounder. After his marriage he gave up the sport in the early 1930s. In 1934 he saw the film of the 1932 Olympics and was particularly impressed by the Irish Olympic hammer throw champion Pat O'Callaghan. He then turned to the sport anew and won the 1936 Olympics in Berlin with an Olympic record of 56.49m. Two years later he won at the 1938 European Athletics Championships with 58.77m.
He remained active for a long time after the Second World War. In 1956, at the age of 48, he still became German runner-up. At the age of 65, he still achieved a distance of 53 metres in the hammer throw. He competed for SV St. Georg Hamburg and trained with Sepp Christmann. In the 1950s, he switched to Hamburger SV. In his active time he was 1.79 m tall and weighed 103 kg.
Hein won a total of five German championship titles (1936, 1937, 1938, 1946 and 1947), was runner-up three times (1942, 1943, 1956) and won three third places (1939, 1941 and 1948).
Karl Hein died at the age of 74. He found his final resting place at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in his hometown of Hamburg.
Source: Wikipedia
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