Manfred Germar

Manfred Germar's greatest performance as an athlete came at the 1958 European Championships, where he won the 200 metres, won silver in the 100, and ran anchor for the combined German 4×100 relay team that won the gold medal. He was World Ranked #1 in 1958 and #2 in 1957 in the 200. Germar was German Sportsman of the Year in 1957, was recipient of the Olympic Order in Silver 2001, and was inducted into the German Sports Hall of Fame in 2006. In 1968, he began working as a sports administrator for his home club ASV Köln, and later chief organizer of the ASV-meeting World Class in Cologne. Germar published his autobiography Die Spuren meiner Spikes in 1961. In 1998 he became a board member of the German Sports and Olympic Museum at Köln.

Personal Bests: 100 – 10.2 (1957); 200 – 20.6 (1958).