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Sport
  
Artistic gymnastics

Height
  
1.53 m

Role
  
Olympic athlete


Name
  
Lutz Hoffmann

Club
  
SC Synamo Berlin

Weight
  
51 kg

Lutz Hoffmann

Born
  
30 January 1959
Weisenfels, Germany

Died
  
December 5, 1997, Bad Sachsa, Germany

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

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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. 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. He won a bronze medal in the parallel bars at the 1981 European championships.

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.

References

Lutz Hoffmann Wikipedia


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