Hans Geister

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Hans Geister (September 28, 1928 – May 16, 2012) was a German track and field athlete, who mainly competed in the 400 metres.[1] He was born in Duisburg-Hamborn.[2]

He was German 400 meters champion in 1951. In the same year he was part of the CSV Marathon Krefeld club team that won the British championship 4 × 440 yard relay. He competed in the 4 × 400 metre relay for Germany at the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland, where he won the bronze medal with his teammates Günter Steines, Heinz Ulzheimer and Karl-Friedrich Haas.[2] Im 1954 he was part of the German 4 × 400 meters relay team which won the silver medal in the European championships. Later on he served as an honorary club coach in Krefeld working, e.g., with Arnd Krüger.

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