Hans-Joachim Walde
Hans-Joachim Walde (28 June 1942 – 18 April 2013) was a West German track and field athlete.[1] He competed in the decathlon at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1964 and a silver in 1968.[2] Walde won national decathlon titles in 1964 and 1969, and set a world record the heptathlon in 1970.He first specialized in general traumas, but then switched to sports medicine, in particular to shoulder surgery.He was a member of the German Shoulder and Elbow Society (DVSW) and director of sports medicine at Northwest Hospital in Frisian Sanderbusch, Lower Saxony.