Klaus-Dieter Kurrat

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Klaus-Dieter Kurrat (born January 16, 1955 in Nauen , GDR ) is a German athlete and Olympic medalist who - starting for the GDR - was successful as a 100-meter runner .

Life

At the Junior European Championships he won gold three times, over 100 and 200 meters and with the 4 x 100 meter relay . His greatest success is the silver medal at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montréal with the GDR's 4 x 100 meter relay (38.66s, together with Manfred Kokot , Alexander Thieme and Jörg Pfeifer ), for which he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit was awarded in bronze. He also reached the finals over 100 meters and finished seventh in 10.31 s.

At the European Indoor Championships in 1977 , Kurrat was fourth over 60 meters. In 1979 he reached fifth place at the European Athletics Indoor Championships . In Moscow, he retired from the 1980 Olympic Games in the interim. In 1981 he resigned.

Kurrat belonged to the ASK Potsdam and trained with Peter Hunold . In his playing days he was 1.70 m tall and weighed 69 kg. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the reunification , the name of Kurrat was also found among the doped athletes.

In 1978 Kurrat married the gymnast Kerstin Gerschau , with whom he has three children. After his resignation, he first worked as a trainer, later in controlling transit traffic . After the end of the GDR, he ran a fitness studio, was a trainer in the sports forum in Kleinmachnow and became the manager of a sports and wellness center in Wildau .

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. ↑ 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).
  2. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 182

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personal data
SURNAME Kurrat, Klaus-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and Olympic medalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Nauen , GDR