Christoph Höhne

Christoph Höhne
Olympic medal record
Competitor for  East Germany
Men's athletics
Olympic Games
Gold 1968 Mexico City 50 km walk
European Championships
Gold 1969 Athens 50 km walk
Gold 1974 Rome 50 km walk
Silver 1971 Helsinki 50 km Walk
World Race Walking Cup
Gold 1965 Pescara 50 km walk
Gold 1967 Bad Saarow 50 km walk
Gold 1970 Eschborn 50 km walk
Bronze 1973 Lugano 50 km walk

Christoph Höhne (born 12 February 1941 near Leipzig, Saxony) is a retired racewalker of the SV Dynamo. He competed at 50km for East Germany in the 1960s and 1970s. He was trained by Max Weber.

Höhne won a gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics at Mexico City and participated in the Olympics in 1964 and 1972. His Olympic victory made history as his margin of victory was over ten minutes. He participated in an episode of the cold war in sports at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich: On the evening before the race, East German officials received an anonymous tip that he wanted to defect during the 50 km race. They did not believe the allegations, but Höhne went to the start line unnerved and finished in fourteenth place.

Höhne won twice at the European Championships (in 1969 and 1974). He won the IAAF World Race Walking Cup at 50km in 1965, 1967 and, 1970 and came in third in 1973.

After his sports career, he studied photography and became a well known sports photographer in East Germany. Among other things, he received a gold medal at the International Sports Photography Exhibition in Reus, Spain in 1978. After the unification of Germany, he has done freelance photography for the daily newspapers Junge Welt and Sportecho.

Note:

  • His place of birth is reported as Machern profile (German)
  • or as Borsdorf 1941 (German) both in Saxony


References


v · d · eOlympic Champions in Men's 50 kilometers Walk
v · d · eEuropean Champions in Men's 50 km Walk

1934: Jānis Daliņš (LAT)  • 1938: Harold Whitlock (GBR)  • 1946: John Ljunggren (SWE)  • 1950: Giuseppe Dordoni (ITA)  • 1954: Vladimir Ukhov (URS)  • 1958: Yevgeny Maskinskov (URS)  • 1962: Abdon Pamich (ITA)  • 1966: Abdon Pamich (ITA)  • 1969: Christoph Höhne (GDR)  • 1971: Veniamin Soldatenko (URS)  • 1974: Christoph Höhne (GDR)  • 1978: Jorge Llopart (ESP)  • 1982: Reima Salonen (FIN)  • 1986: Hartwig Gauder (GDR)  • 1990: Andrey Perlov (URS)  • 1994: Valeriy Spitsyn (RUS)  • 1998: Robert Korzeniowski (POL)  • 2002: Robert Korzeniowski (POL)  • 2006: Yohann Diniz (FRA)  • 2010: Yohann Diniz (FRA)
v · d · eIAAF Men's World Race Walking Cup Champions
20 kilometres

 1961 – 1963: Ken Matthews (GBR)  •  1965: Dieter Lindner (GDR)  •  1967: Nikolay Smaga (URS)  •  1970 – 1973: Hans Reimann (GDR)  •  1975: Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (GDR)  •  1977 – 1979: Daniel Bautista (MEX)  •  1981: Ernesto Canto (MEX)  •  1983: Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)  •  1985: José Marín (ESP)  •  1987: Carlos Mercenario (MEX)  •  1989: Frants Kostyukevich (URS)  •  1991: Mikhail Shchennikov (URS)  •  1993: Daniel García (MEX)  •  1995: Li Zewen (CHN)  •  1997: Jefferson Pérez (ECU)  •  1999: Bernardo Segura (MEX)  •  2002 – 2004: Jefferson Pérez (ECU)  •  2006 – 2008: Francisco Javier Fernández (ESP)  •  2010: Wang Hao (CHN)
50 kilometres

 1961: Abdon Pamich (ITA)  •  1963: István Havasi (HUN)  •  1965 – 1970: Christoph Höhne (GDR)  •  1973: Bernd Kannenberg (FRG)  •  1975: Yevgeniy Lyungin (URS)  •  1977: Raúl González (MEX)  •  1979: Martín Bermúdez (MEX)  •  1981 – 1983: Raúl González (MEX)  •  1985: Hartwig Gauder (GDR)  •  1987: Ronald Weigel (GDR)  •  1989: Simon Baker (AUS)  •  1991 – 1993: Carlos Mercenario (MEX)  •  1995: Zhao Yongsheng (CHN)  •  1997: Jesús Ángel García (ESP)  •  1999: Sergey Korepanov (KAZ)  •  2002 – 2004: Aleksey Voyevodin (RUS)  •  2006 – 2008: Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS)  •  2010  Matej Tóth (SVK)


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