23. November 2008  
Berlin / Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

Former German National Coach Klaus MILBRADT passed away....

Klaus MILBRADT
*28.02.1940 - + 20.11.2007

With great sadness the German and international gymnastics family has to bid farewell to one of its most dedicated personalities:

On Tuesday, November 20th 2007, Klaus MILBRADT died of heart failure at the age of 67 only.
He was threefold German gymnastics champion (GDR), longtime coach and first gymnastics national coach of the reunited Germany.

In the 1960ies he himself belonged to the leading top-gymnasts of the GDR...

Worlds 1991, Indianapolis (USA):
Milbradt (middle), high bar world champion BUECHNER (left) and vice champion on rings WECKER

Later, as a coach first in Leipzig (SC DHfK), later in Halle (SC Chemie) and as the first national coach after the German reunification, Klaus MILBRADT coached outstanding athletes of international top class and considerably influenced the direction and dimensions of the gymnastics development in the reunited Germany.

After a long and grave disease, his heart failed on November 20th 2007...

With Klaus MILBRADT, German and international artistic gymnastics lose one of its most dedicated strategists ... ,
... whom his former fosterlings, fellow coaches and gymnastics friends will never forget.

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