Lutz Franke (athlete)

Lutz Franke (born July 3, 1957 ) is a former German long jumper who competed for the GDR .

At the European Athletics Indoor Championships, he won silver in San Sebastián in 1977 and bronze in Vienna in 1979 .

He was twice in the hall GDR champion (1977, 1979) and GDR runner-up (1978, 1980). In the open air he was third at the GDR championships in 1979.

Lutz Franke started for the SC DHfK Leipzig . In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the fall of the Wall , the name of Franke was found among the doped athletes.

Personal best

• Long jump: 8.13 m, July 19, 1979, Dresden
  • Hall: 8.09 m, January 20, 1980, East Berlin

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. 181