Manfred Kurzer
Manfred Kurzer (born January 10, 1970 in Berlin ) is a former German sports shooter. Kurzer is an Olympic champion and two-time world champion.
Life
Kurz started shooting sports at the age of 14. He celebrated his first major international success in 1990 when he became world champion in competition with the running disc in Moscow . He was able to repeat this success four years later at the World Cup in Milan .
In 1998 he set a new world record with the running target at the World Cup in Zurich . The greatest success of his career he achieved in 2004 at the Olympic Games in Athens , when he was Olympic champion with 682.4 rings ahead of the two Russians Alexander Blinow and Dmitri Lykin . In the preliminary fight he had set a new world record with 590 rings. Kurzer is currently a sports soldier in the Bundeswehr and lives in Frankfurt (Oder) .
After his active career, he became the property manager of a shooting center in Frankfurt (Oder) .
successes
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Olympic Summer Games:
- 2004: 1 × gold
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World Championships:
- 2002: 1 × gold
- 1998: 1 × silver
- 1994: 1 × gold (running disc), 1 × bronze
- 1990: 1 × gold (running disc), 1 × silver, 1 × bronze
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World Cup:
- 10 × gold
- 2 × silver
- 5 × bronze
Honors
- 2004, 2005: Brandenburg Sportsman of the Year
Web links
- Manfred Kurzer in the database of the International Shooting Sport Federation (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Kurzer - last Olympic champion in an interesting discipline. Deutsche Schützenzeitung 5/2017, p. 66 (PDF 100 KB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | In short, Manfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German marksman, Olympic champion (2004) and world champion (1990, 1994 and 2002) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |