Frank Paschek

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Frank Paschek (born June 25, 1956 in Bad Doberan ) is a former German athlete who - starting for the GDR - won the silver medal in the long jump at the 1980 Olympic Games .

Life

At the age of 16, Frank Paschek was a Spartakiade winner in 1972 , was GDR junior and youth champion in 1974 and GDR champion in the men's class in 1978. In 1979 he rose to the top of the world: at the USSR Volkerspartakiade in Moscow, a test for the Olympic Games held in Moscow the following year, he won, defeating the later nine-time sprint and long jump Olympic champion Carl Lewis (USA). This could not start because of the Olympic boycott of the USA at the Olympic Games in Moscow .

1980 Paschek became GDR champion for the second time and set a new GDR record with 8.36 m. At the games in Moscow, Paschek won the silver medal with 8.21 m, behind his teammate Lutz Dombrowski, who also increased the record to 8.54 m. 1981 Paschek became GDR champion in the hall.

Frank Paschek had a competition weight of 72 kg with a height of 1.83 m. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the reunification , the name of Paschek was also found among the doped athletes.

In 1982 Paschek gave up active sport. He later became a coach at his former sports club, TSC Berlin . As an active player he trained with Werner Willamowski .

1980 Frank Paschek was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

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

  1. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 183
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3

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personal data
SURNAME Paschek, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and Olympic medalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Doberan