Bernd Hartstein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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East German sport shooter
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Place of Birth: Ostrau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
About Bernd Hartstein
- Bernd Hartstein (born 26 October 1947 in Petersberg-Ostrau; d.
- 23 February 2002 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German sport shooter and trainer.
- In 1980, he won the Olympic silver medal in small-bore rifle, three positions, for East Germany Hartstein started for GST-Klub Leipzig (a Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik club).
- In 1968, he became East German Junior Champion.
- Beginning in 1972 and on into the 1980s, he won East German championship titles in small-bore rifle, three-positions and prone-position competitions.
- Besides this, he also won championship titles in air rifle shooting.At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Hartstein scored ninth place in the three-positions competition.
- At the 1979 World Championships, he reached second place behind Bulgaria's Nonka Matova.
- Likewise, at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, he won a silver medal, while the Soviet Union's Viktor Vlassov won gold. Hartstein won several medals with the East German team.
- At the 1981 World Championships, he won together with Frank Rettkowski and Andreas Wolfram in the team score for kneeling-position.
- In 1985, Hartstein won a further single medal at a world championship: in a prone-position competition, he scored second place behind Kiril Ivanov. The trained electrician completed a course of study in sport during his career.
- After 1990, when Germany reunited, he became state trainer in Hesse.
- In March 2001, Hartstein fell ill with leukaemia.
- The Hessian Shooting Association (Hessischer Schützenverband) sent out a call for bone marrow donations.
- Although several hundred persons heeded the call, it was almost a year before a suitable donor was found.
- By then, it was too late, and Hartstein died in early 2002 at the Frankfurter Universitätsklinik.
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