{{Short description|East German gymnast}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}} {{Infobox gymnast | name = Lutz Hoffmann | image = Bundesarchiv Bild 183-W0522-0021, Lutz Hoffmann.jpg | image_size = 270px | caption = Hoffmann in 1980 | birth_date = 30 January 1959 | birth_place = Weißenfels, Bezirk Halle, East Germany | death_date = 5 December 1997 (aged 38) | death_place = Bad Sachsa, Lower Saxony, Germany | height = 1.53 m | discipline = MAG | country = {{GYM National Team|GDR|MAG}} | club = SC Synamo Berlin | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{GDR}}}} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalSilver|1980 Moscow|Team}} {{MedalCompetition|European Championships}} {{MedalBronze|1981 Rome|Parallel bars}} }}
'''Lutz Hoffmann''' (30 January 1959 – 5 December 1997) was an East German gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.<ref name=sref/>
==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.<ref name=sref/> 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.<ref name=sref/> He won a bronze medal in the parallel bars at the 1981 European championships.<ref>[http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/t/turnen/hst/31.html Turnen – Europameisterschaften Herren]. sport-komplett.de</ref>
==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.<ref name=sref/>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=sref>{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Lutz Hoffmann |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/lutz-hoffmann-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418023033/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/lutz-hoffmann-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |accessdate=30 June 2012}}</ref> }}
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