Torsten Voss

Torsten Voss
Torsten Voss at the GDR indoor championships in 1982
nation	German Democratic Republic of Germany
birthday	24th March 1963 (age 57)
place of birth	Guestrow ,  GDR
size	186 cm
Weight	88 kg
Career
discipline	Decathlon
society	SC Tractor Schwerin Schweriner SC LAV Bayer Uerdingen / Dormagen
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Junior European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games Participant for the German Democratic Republic  silver 1988 Seoul Decathlon World championships Participant for the German Democratic Republic  gold 1987 Rome Decathlon Junior European Championships Participant for the German Democratic Republic  gold 1981 Utrecht Decathlon
last change: March 8, 2018

Torsten Voss (born March 24, 1963 in Güstrow ) is a former German athlete who competed as a track and field athlete for the GDR and later started bobsleigh for the Federal Republic. The 1988 and 1998 Olympian was world champion in 1987, won Olympic silver in the decathlon in 1988 and was runner-up in the four-man bobsleigh in 1997.

Life

He won the silver medal in the decathlon at the 1981 European Junior Championships , where he started for the GDR . The following year he set a junior world record with 8387 points (which was only surpassed by Niklas Kaul with 8435 points in 2017 ), but at the European Championships he gave up after the sixth discipline.
In 1983 Torsten Voss was seventh at the first world championships in Helsinki . In 1985 he won the all-around European Cup in Krefeld. At the European Championships in 1986 he reached fourth place in the decathlon in Stuttgart in August.

His greatest success was the 1987 world title in Rome . He won with a personal best of 8,680 points ahead of Siegfried Wentz and was voted GDR Sportsman of the Year for this in the same year . In 1988 he won the silver medal behind Christian Schenk (GDR) at the Olympic Games in Seoul . Voss was also GDR champion in 1982, 1983, 1987 and 1990 and after reunification and an injury break, German runner-up in 1993.

As a track and field athlete, he was 1.86 m tall and weighed 88 kg. Voss started for SC Traktor Schwerin , Schweriner SC and LAV Bayer Uerdingen / Dormagen .

In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after German reunification , the name of Voss was also found among the doped athletes.

Bobsleigh since 1994

nation	Germany
birthday	March 24, 1963
Career
discipline	four
status	resigned
Medal table
Bobsleigh World Championship 0 × 1 × 2 × European bobsleigh championship 2 × 1 × 3 ×
Bobsleigh World Championship bronze 1995 Winterberg Four-man bobsleigh bronze 1996 Calgary Four-man bobsleigh silver 1997 St. Moritz Four-man bobsleigh European bobsleigh championship silver 1996 St. Moritz Four-man bobsleigh bronze 1997 Königssee Four-man bobsleigh gold 1998 Igls Four-man bobsleigh bronze 1999 St. Moritz Four-man bobsleigh gold 2001 Königssee Four-man bobsleigh bronze 2002 Cortina d'Ampezzo Four-man bobsleigh
last change: March 8, 2018

In 1994 Torsten Voss switched to bobsleigh and was pushing for Harald Czudaj and Wolfgang Hoppe .
At world championships he won three medals: in 1995 with Czudaj and 1996 with Hoppe the bronze medal and in 1997 the silver medal in Dirk Wiese's four-man bobsleigh .
At the 1998 Winter Olympics , he reached eighth place with the Czudaj bobsleigh and was also the overall winner of the World Cup that year.

In 1998 he became European champion in the four-man bobsleigh with Harald Czudaj, Steffen Görmer and Alexander Szelig and again three years later in 2001 with Matthias Benesch , Udo Lehmann and Alexander Szelig .

Personal

The trained vehicle fitter worked as an employee of Bayer's security department.

He later became a company firefighter at Bayer and a trainer at SC Bayer 05 Uerdingen . Among his 'protégés' was the decathlete Michael Schrader .

After his career ended in 2009, Voss founded the athletic training concept pa-training (personal athletic training) together with his partner, the sports manager Christian P. Schneider, who is also the drummer and founder of the band Echo Appartment , and has been responsible for national and international professional and top athletes from the sports of soccer, ice hockey, hockey and athletics. The most famous athletes include the soccer players Marco Engelhardt , Christoph Moritz , Shao Jiayi , the DEL-Club Krefeld Pinguine , the ice hockey players Christian Ehrhoff and Marcel Noebels as well as the hockey players from Uhlenhorst Mülheim .

Voss' daughter Stefanie took part in the 2013 European Indoor Championships as a long jumper .

Awards

In the GDR, Voss was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver in 1986 and 1988 .

literature

• Volker Kluge :  Voss, Torsten . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Silke Bernhart: 8,435 points: Niklas Kaul breaks the U20 world record , U20 European Championship 2017, on: Leichtathletik.de, from July 23, 2017, accessed January 20, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Schlebach: What is actually ... Torsten Voss? , NDR June 15, 2009
3. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 184
4. ↑ pa-training ( memento of the original from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ "Birthdays", Sport-Bild from March 24, 1993, p. 49
6. ↑ Stefanie Voss - "The goal is 6.60 meters" all-athletics.com March 8, 2013
7. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 15, 1986, p. 7
8. ↑ Neues Deutschland, 12./13. November 1988, p. 4

Web links

Commons : Torsten Voss  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature about Torsten Voss in the state bibliography MV
• Torsten Voss in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Torsten Voss in the database of World Athletics (English)
• pa-training , official website