Eckhard Lesse
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Born | Athletics | 1 December 1948|||||||||||
Event | Long-distance running | |||||||||||
Club | SC Magdeburg | |||||||||||
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Eckhard Lesse (born 1 December 1948) is a German former
Career
Lesse represented East Germany at the
Lesse broke the national record again in Manchester in June 1973, running 2:12:24.[4][5] Later that year he placed third in the strong Fukuoka Marathon, behind Olympic champion Frank Shorter and Canada's Brian Armstrong;[6] Track & Field News ranked Lesse the world's second best marathoner that year.[7]
At the 1974 European Championships in Rome Lesse placed second to Great Britain's Ian Thompson in 2:14:57.4.[2] He placed second to Shorter in the 1974 Fukuoka Marathon, his time of 2:12:02.4 being another East German record;[4][8] that year, he was ranked third in the world, behind Thompson and Shorter.[7] Lesse was ranked in the world's top ten for a final time in 1975,[7] when he placed fifth in Fukuoka in 2:12:42.6.[9]
Lesse remained active in sports after his athletic career, and was president of his sports club, SC Magdeburg, in late 2009 and early 2010.[10]
References
- ^ a b "Eckhard Lesse Bio, Stats and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ European Athletics. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-88-011969-6. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ a b c "GER Record Progressions- Road". Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ "Lesse siegte in DDR-Bestzeit". Neues Deutschland (in German). 4 June 1973. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ "World Marathon Rankings for 1973". Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ a b c "World Rankings — Men's Marathon" (PDF). Track & Field News. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- Hutchinson News. 9 December 1974. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ "World Marathon Rankings for 1975". Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ "Präsident Lesse tritt beim SC Magdeburg zurück". Märkische Onlinezeitung (in German). 12 January 2010. Retrieved 7 December 2014.