Claus Marek

Claus Marek
Full name	Claus-Hermann Marek
nation	BR Germany
birthday	April 3, 1954
place of birth	Bochum ,  BR Germany
size	186 cm
Weight	89 kg
Career
discipline	Decathlon
Best performance	7962 points
society	USC Bochum TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen LAV Bayer Uerdingen / Dormagen
status	resigned
Medal table
U20 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × German championships 1 × 8 × 0 ×
Junior European Championships bronze Duisburg 1976 Decathlon  German championships silver Hanover 1973 team silver Trostberg 1974 team silver Hanover 1976 singles silver Hanover 1977 singles gold Hanover 1977 team silver Krefeld 1979 team silver Location 1980 team silver Location 1981 team

Claus-Hermann Marek (born April 3, 1954 in Bochum ) is a former German decathlete .

In 1973 he won bronze at the European Junior Athletics Championships in Duisburg .

At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , he was tenth in the decathlon .

He set his personal best of 7962 points on June 7, 1976 in Dortmund .

Claus Marek started for USC Bochum , TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen and LAV Bayer Uerdingen / Dormagen .

After his career, he worked as the national coach of the decathletes from 1983 to 2004 and was the owner of a sports consulting company.

Web links

• Claus Marek in the trackfield.brinkster.net database (English)
• Claus Marek in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Claus Marek in the Olympedia database