Horst Astroth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German Olympic athlete
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Place of Birth: Naumburg (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
About Horst Astroth
- Horst Astroth (30 October 1923 – 10 January 2017) was a German track and field athlete who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics, where he finished 16th out of 39 participants in the men's 50 kilometres walk.
- At the Games he represented SV Halle.
- Born in Naumburg, Astroth began his sporting career as a gymnast and was injured in combat during World War II.
- Following the conflict he worked as a teacher and took up running in 1953 at the age of 30.
- Over the course of his career he set seven senior East German records and was national runner-up in the 50 km in 1956, 1958, and 1959.
- He was also eighth in that event at the 1962 European Athletics Championships.
- After retiring from international competition, he continued to compete and set records at master's-level events, while also working as a trainer with Naumburg BSG and a freelancer writer for the local Liberal Democratic newspaper.
- He died in January 2017 at the age of 93.
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