Led by Germany, with 1,400 entrants, the biggest (and probably best) masters track meet this year will be the European Masters Championships starting this weekend in what they’re calling the tri-border region of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. More than 4,800 age-groupers from 38 nations will compete Aug. 16-25, including a bunch of Olympians and former world-class elites. Below is a report, translated from German, about the celeb athletes or observers, including sprinter Marlies Göhr, thrower Udo Beyer, decathlete Robert Změlík and vaulter Hans Lagerquist.

Barcelona Olympic decathlon champ Robert Zmelik is entered at Eurovets meet.

Here’s a really, really bad translation of meet preview. Sorry.

Former athletes guest at Senior Championship

German athletes with big names will be the 18th Senior European championships in Zittau (Germany), Bogytynia / Zgorzelec (Poland) and Hradek (Czech Republic) to attend: Women and men who were successful at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships, to rub elbows. Many of them come as invited guests, but many will still go even once at the start.

The former hurdler Gloria Siebert is also the Senior European Championships as former sprinter Marlies Goehr and Marita Cierpinski, the former was successful over the medium range. Also, the previous successful long-distance runners and marathon runners Stephan Hans Grodotzki clearance will be a guest of the organizers.

With ex-shot putter Udo Beyer and former javelin thrower Detlef Michel two particularly successful athletes from the cannon bearing not only the competitions will be following with interest, but again perhaps even former supporters who have sent their message for the World Championships.

Famous names at the start

Indeed, contrary to the above-mentioned guests still has a surprisingly large number of national and international athletes who were once successful at major events, interest in participating in senior championships. Kristina Albert, who was a long jumper at the Olympic Games in Munich at the start is, in Zittau in the class W65 over 100 meters and long jump at the start of his.

In two starts at the Olympic Games 1956 in Melbourne (Australia) and 1960 in Rome (Italy), the first German 50-meter javelin (50.83 meters, 1956) Almut Brömmel look back. She starts throwing in all disciplines of the W75 class. Even three times marathoner Kathrine started Doerre-Heinig the rankings three, four and five at Olympic games. In the Senior Championship it is in the class W50 10,000 meters.

Langsprinterin Dagmar Fuhrmann was in 1976 in Montreal (Canada) in position two of the 4×400-meter relay of the FRG. It is in Zittau in the W55 class of 100, 200 and 400 meters at the starting line.

Throwers for decades while

End of the 60s was one of the Illgen Karin won discus throwers in the world, bronze at the European Championships in 1969 in Athens (Greece) and was Olympian in 1968 in Mexico City. As members of the Class W70 she has submitted for the competitions in Zittau their message for the shot put and discus throw.

The union equipment has remained true to Lieselotte Leiss, with the javelin in 1958 in Stockholm (Sweden) took part in the European championships in Zittau and concerns both the javelin throw and the pentathlon in the W75 class.

For the “youngest” class of Senior Championship Kirsten Muenchow has announced its commitment to start. The Olympic bronze medalist from Sydney 2000 (Australia) will show in the class W35, that they can still throw over 60 meters.

Dual launch of Wolfgang Knabe

Already at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne (Australia) Anne Chatrine Rühlow was with the ball and the discus in use. And it is precisely with these devices, they will also record in Zittau in the W75 class competition.

Wolfgang was a boy, triple jumper 1983 World Cup participants in Helsinki (Finland). Still equipped with a remarkable performance – 14 meters are still in the realm of possibility – he will compete in the Senior Championship both his specialist discipline and the long jump Class M50.

Gerhard Weidner is up and running

Fred came out 40 years ago Schladen the ball on the 20-meter mark. The participants at two European Indoor Championships in 1973 and 1974 starts now in its class and has reported for the M70 shot put and discus throwing class.

Also on two appearances at European Championships (1978 and 1986) is proud walkers Alfonso black. In the Senior Championship we’ll see him in class M55 5000 m on both the web and over 20 kilometers on the road.

“Backsliding” Gerhard Weidner has become: He was sixth at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich in the 50 km walk, but he also was at the games in 1968 and 1976 at the start and played four European Championships and World Championships. Years ago he had finished with going to devote himself exclusively to running. Now he not only runs, but it goes again: In both cases, the 5,000 meters in the M75 class.

Olympic gold medalist at the start

Former world-class athletes have been announced from abroad. With Viktor Rashchupkin (Russia), discus gold medalist in 1980 in Moscow (Russia), and Robert Změlík (Czech Republic), Olympic decathlon champion have the 1992 in Barcelona (Spain), made even two gold-winning Olympian their message. The Russians are on the M60 class start with the ball, while the Czech denies the competitions shot put, discus and javelin.

In a way, a permanent guest at senior championships is Robert Zmeliks compatriot Gejza Valent. The World Cup of 1983 provided a third party in Helsinki (Finland) in the discus throw with a personal best of 69.70 meters in 1984, allows the competitions’ at his front door “of course not escape and starts in the class M55.

Perennial from Sweden

Two well-known Swedish names are to be discovered in the message list: pole vaulters including Hans Lagerquist was seventh in the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972. Besides the now 72-year-old Norse is in 1973 as the “inventor” of the long jump, somersault, but was only a short time later (1974) banned by the IAAF.

In the M40 class is Lagerquists compatriot Mattias Sunneborn, who is still able to jump to 7.30 meters wide, acted as the clear favorite. Mattias Sunneborn was in Barcelona in 1995 with 8.20 meters, second in the World Indoor Championships and finished in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta (USA) with 8.06 meters in eighth place. In 1996, he scored with his 8.21 meters Weitsprungbestleistung.

Mihaela Loghin still reaches

By Tamara Danilova (Russia), then as now (W70) a Dauerkonkurrentin Karin Illgen, a former European champion in the discus throw goes to the start. The Russian won the title in 1969 in Athens and was at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich in fourth.

In the Class W60 has Mihaela Loghin (Romania) made the shot put competition for their message. She was a centimeter behind the German Claudia Losch second of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles (USA) and recorded in the same year with a personal best 21.00 meters.