Manfred Hinze

Manfred Hinze is a German track and field athlete who competed in the men's triple jump at two Summer Olympics, the 1960 Games in Rome and the 1964 Games in Tokyo, where he finished seventh and sixth. He was born on 8 January 1933 and represented East Germany within the German team of those years. He began his athletics career as a sprinter and turned to the triple jump in 1958. He won East German national titles in 1959 and 1962 and the indoor title in 1965, and in 1959 he became the first German to triple jump past sixteen metres. His personal best of 16.25 metres dates from 1964. He first trained as a sports teacher and later studied medicine.