Jörg Pfeifer

Jörg Pfeifer (born March 19, 1952 in Merseburg , Saxony-Anhalt ) is a German athlete who - starting for the GDR - was successful in the 200-meter run and 4-by-100-meter relay in the 1970s was. His greatest success is the silver medal at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montréal with the 4 x 100 meter relay of the GDR (38.66 s, together with Manfred Kokot , Alexander Thieme and Klaus-Dieter Kurrat ), for which he won the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze received.

At the European Championships in 1971 he won the bronze medal in the 200-meter run. He ran two GDR records on this route (20.5 s on June 27, 1971 in Leipzig and 20.4 s on August 22, 1971 in Berlin) as well as an indoor world record in 1976 (21.10 s on January 11, 1976 ).

Jörg Pfeifer started for the SC Chemie Halle and trained with Dietmar Falgowski . He is 1.77 m tall and weighed 68 kg during his playing days. He initially trained as a lower school teacher and later was a coach at SV Dynamo Halle-Neustadt .

Individual evidence

↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).

Web links

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

personal data
SURNAME	Pfeifer, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German athlete and Olympic medalist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 19, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Merseburg , Saxony-Anhalt

[1] About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze. In: New Germany . September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (online at ZEFYS - newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , free registration required).