Remigius Machura

Remigius Machura medal table
Remigius Machura (2005)
Shot putter
Czechoslovakia
World championships
bronze	1983 Helsinki	20.98 m
European championships
bronze	1982 Athens	20.59 m
Indoor world championships
gold	1985 Paris	21.22 m
European Indoor Championships
gold	1988 Budapest	21.39 m
gold	1985 Athens	21.74 m
silver	1982 Milan	20.07 m

Remigius Machura (born July 3, 1960 in Rychnov nad Kněžnou ) is a former Czech shot putter who was internationally successful for Czechoslovakia in the 1980s.

He won his first international medal at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in 1982 in Milan, where he finished second behind the Yugoslav Vladimir Milić with 20.07 m . In the same year Machura was at the European Athletics Championships in Athens with 20.59 m third behind Udo Beyer and Jānis Bojārs and was able to displace Milic in fourth place. At the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1983 Machura won the bronze medal again, this time with a width of 20.98 m behind Edward Sarul and the later Olympic champion Ulf Timmermann .

Machura had the strongest season of his career in 1985. In that year he became both world and European indoor champions. At the so-called World Indoor Athletics Games in Paris , he referred Udo Beyer and Jānis Bojārs to the places with a width of 21.22 m. At the European Indoor Championships in Athens he beat Timmermann and later three-time world champion Werner Günthör with 21.74 m . Machura's achievements were however in a dubious light when he tested positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol in the same year . Because of this doping offense , he was initially banned from competition for life, but this was suspended again after two years.

Machura was allowed to take part in the World Athletics Championships in Rome in 1987 , where he was fourth with 21.39 m. At the European Indoor Championships in Budapest in 1988 , he won the title with 21.39 m in front of Karsten Stolz and Georgi Todorow . Later that season, Machura finished fifth at the Seoul Olympics with 20.57m. In 1992 he ended his international career and became a trainer in the athletics department of Sparta Prague .

Remigius Machura was 1.86 m tall and had a competition weight of 118 kg. His son Remigius Machura is also a shot putter and became Junior European Champion in 2005.

Top performances

• Shot put: 21.93 m, 23 August 1987, Prague
  • Hall: 21.79 m, February 13, 1985, Prague

Web links

• Remigius Machura in the database of World Athletics (English)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Canoe.ca: Czech authorities admit to secret doping program . February 10, 2000