Jörg Freimuth

Jörg Freimuth (born September 10, 1961 in Rathenow ) is a former German athlete and Olympic medalist.

Starting for the GDR , he won the bronze medal in the high jump at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow with a personal best of 2.31 meters . At the European Indoor Championships in 1981 he came in sixth. At the European Cup in 1981 he was fourth and at the World Cup in the same year third.

In 1981 and 1982 he was GDR indoor champion, in 1982 GDR high jump champion. Then he ended his sporting career.

Jörg Freimuth started for the ASK Vorwärts Potsdam and trained with Herbert Hoffmann. When he competed, he was 1.92 m tall and weighed 89 kg. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the reunification , the name of Freimuth was also found among the doped athletes.

After the end of his sports career, he worked as an electrician, groundskeeper on a campsite, helper in drywall construction, security guard and currently as a truck driver. The decathlete Uwe Freimuth (8792 points in 1984) is his twin brother.

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898-2005 . 2 volumes, Darmstadt 2005 published via Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 181

Web links

• Jörg Freimuth in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )