Frank Wartenberg

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Frank Wartenberg, June 27, 1973

Frank Wartenberg (born May 29, 1955 in Bülzig ) is a former German athlete who - starting for the GDR - won the bronze medal in the long jump at the 1976 Olympic Games .

Life

He became Junior European Champion in 1973 . The following year he was the GDR indoor champion with the junior European record of 8.01 meters. At the European Indoor Championships in 1974 he reached eighth place. This year he also jumped the European junior record outdoors and was twelfth at the European Championships in Rome.

1976 was Wartenberg's most successful year. He became GDR champion and won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Montreal (7.81 m - invalid - invalid - 8.02 m - 7.84 m - invalid). He also jumped his personal best with 8.18 meters. In 1977 he was fifth at the European Indoor Championships and at the first World Cup in Düsseldorf. Due to cartilage damage, he had to end his career shortly before the 1980 Summer Olympics .

Frank Wartenberg started for the SC Chemie Halle and trained with Siegfried Just . In his playing days he was 1.86 m tall and weighed 76 kg. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the fall of the Wall , the name of Wartenberg was also found among the doped athletes.

In 1977 he married the middle-distance runner Christiane Stoll , who in 1980 under the name Wartenberg finished second in the 1500 meter race . After the end of his sports career, the qualified sports teacher worked as deputy DTSB district chairman in Wittenberg . After reunification he worked as an employee in the city administration of Wittenberg. He lives with his family in Bülzig .

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. ↑ Dirk Skrzypczak: Love at second sight , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung September 8, 2005
  2. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 184

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personal data
SURNAME Wartenberg, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and Olympic medalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Bülzig