Lutz Hoffmann

Lutz Hoffmann in 1980
Personal information
Born	30 January 1959 Weißenfels, Germany
Died	5 December 1997 (aged 38) Bad Sachsa, Germany
Height	1.53 m (5 ft 0 in)
Weight	51 kg (112 lb)
Sport
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Club	SC Synamo Berlin
Medal record Competitor for  East Germany Olympic Games Silver 1980 Moscow Team European championships Bronze 1981 Rome Parallel bars

Lutz Hoffmann (30 January 1959 – 5 December 1997) was an East German gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.^[1]

Early life and training

He began gymnastics training at the age of five. Beginning in 1976, he trained with the SC Dynamo Berlin. His younger brother Ulf Hoffmann was likewise an Olympic gymnast.^[1] In their youth, they shared a boarding school room during their time with SC Synamo Berlin.

Career

In 1979 Hoffmann became GDR champion in the floor exercise and finished second in the vault. At the world championships in the same year his team finished fourth. Next year they won a silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. At those games, Hoffmann was seventh all-around and sixth on the floor.^[1] He won a bronze medal in the parallel bars at the 1981 European championships.^[2]

Later life and death

After retiring from competitions he worked as gymnastics coach and then became a teacher in Bad Sachsa, Germany, where he committed suicide in 1997.^[1]

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