{{Short description|East German athletics competitor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}} {{expand German|topic=bio|date=June 2022|Hagen Melzer}} {{MedalTableTop}} {{MedalSport | Men's athletics}} {{MedalCountry | {{GDR}} }} {{MedalCompetition|World Championships}} {{MedalSilver | 1987 Rome | 3,000 m st.}} {{MedalCompetition|European Championships}} {{MedalGold|1986 Stuttgart|3000 m st.}} {{MedalBottom}}
'''Hagen Melzer''' (born 16 June 1959, in Bautzen) is a former East German middle and long-distance runner who specialised in the 3000 m steeplechase.
He won the gold medal at the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart. A year later he won the silver medal at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, where he set a national record at 8:10.32 minutes. This remained his career best time, and places him second on the German all-time performers list behind Damian Kallabis, who ran in 8:09.48 minutes in 1999.<ref>[http://www.leichtathletik.de/dokumente/ergebnisse/images/ewige_dlv_bestenliste.pdf Microsoft Word – Ewige DLV-Bestenliste.doc<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704081712/http://www.leichtathletik.de/dokumente/ergebnisse/images/ewige_dlv_bestenliste.pdf |date=4 July 2007 }}</ref> At the Olympic Games he finished tenth in 1988 and did not reach the final in 1992.
Melzer won seven East German national titles, in 1980, 1983 and the years 1985–1989.<ref>[http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/l/leichtathletik/hst/199.html East German championships, men's 3000 m steeplechase]</ref> He represented the sports clubs SC Einheit Dresden and, after the German reunification, Dresdner SC. He won the German title in 1991 for his new club.<ref>[http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/l/leichtathletik/hst/81.html German championships, men's 3000 m steeplechase]</ref>
==References== *{{World Athletics||name=Hagen Melzer}} <references/>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Melzer, Hagenagen}} Category:1959 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Bautzen Category:Athletes from Bezirk Dresden Category:East German men steeplechase runners Category:East German men long-distance runners Category:German men steeplechase runners Category:Dresdner SC sportspeople Category:Olympic athletes for East Germany Category:Olympic athletes for Germany Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Category:World Athletics Championships medalists Category:European Athletics Championships medalists Category:Goodwill Games medalists in athletics Category:Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver Category:Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games Category:Friendship Games medalists in athletics Category:East German Athletics Championships winners
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