Hartwig Gauder

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Medal record
Men’s Athletics
Olympic Games
Competitor for  East Germany
Gold	1980 Moscow	50 km walk
Bronze	1988 Seoul	50 km walk
World Championships
Gold	1987 Rome	50 km walk
Competitor for  Germany
Bronze	1991 Tokyo	50 km walk
European Championships
Gold	1986 Stuttgart	50 km walk
Bronze	1990 Split	50 km walk

Hartwig Gauder (born November 10, 1954 in Vaihingen an der Enz) is a former German race walker.

In 1996 Gauda started suffering from a virus infection of his heart. After living with an artificial heart for several months, he was transplanted a heart. After receiving a transplanted heart he has several times taken part in the New York Marathon. Almost ironically he was disqualified from it once. Being classified as a disabled participants, due to his transplantation, he was disqualified for being too fast as there was a minimum time, which he underran. His recovery from almost dying to returning into a normal life was covered in a documentary shown on German documetary channel Phoenix.

[edit] Achievements

• Olympic Games
  • 1980 Moscow - gold
  • 1988 Seoul - bronze
• World Championships
  • 1987 Rome - gold
  • 1991 Tokyo - bronze
• European Championships
  • 1986 Stuttgart - gold
  • 1990 Split - bronze

[edit] External links

• Sporting Heroes

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