Edgar Kirst
Edgar Kirst (born July 28, 1951 in Neunhofen ) is a former German high jumper .
Life
At the European Athletics Indoor Championships he was fifth in 1973 in Rotterdam and sixth in 1977 in San Sebastián .
At the GDR championships he was third four times (1975, 1977-1979). In the hall from 1973 to 1977 he was GDR runner-up five times in a row. In 1975 he was also GDR champion in indoor pentathlon.
He set his personal best of 2.26 m on August 27, 1977 in Halle (Saale) . He started for SC Dynamo Berlin . In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the fall of the Wall , the name of Kirst was found among the doped athletes.
Edgar Kirst married the high jumper Jutta Krautwurst in 1975 . His older brother is the decathlete Joachim Kirst .
literature
- 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
- ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 182
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| SURNAME | Kirst, Edgar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German high jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neunhofen , German Democratic Republic |