Olympic champions – handball
Olympic champions – handball
| Sport | Handball |
|---|---|
| Club | SC Magdeburg |
The GDR national handball team won the gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, thereby making history. In the 1980s, the handball players of SC Magdeburg also enjoyed an era of sporting superiority. Under the leadership of legendary coach Klaus Miesner, the club dominated handball at national and international level. Six consecutive GDR championship titles from 1980 to 1985 and numerous international successes made SCM the figurehead of top-level sport in East Germany.
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The 1980 Olympic final in Moscow was a real nail-biter: East Germany defeated the favourites, the Soviet Union, 23 to 22 (20 to 20, 10 to 10) after extra time – a game that went down in sporting history. Five players from SC Magdeburg were in the thick of the action. They won Olympic gold under the guidance of coaches Paul Tiedemann and Klaus Langhoff. Wieland Schmidt, Hartmut Krüger, Ernst Gerlach, Günther Krüger and Klaus Langhoff became legends and are immortalised together as handball heroes on the Sports Walk of Fame in the city of Magdeburg.
