Hartwig Gauder (10 November 1954 – 22 April 2020) was a German race walker who won a gold medal in the Men's 50 kilometres walk at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
[1] In 1996 Gauder started suffering from a virus infection of his heart.
Being classified as a disabled participant due to his transplant, he was once disqualified for being too fast as there was a minimum time, which he underran.
[1] Gauder died while undergoing dialysis on 22 April 2020, aged 65.
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