Roland Steuk
Roland Steuk (born March 5, 1959 in Berlin ) is a German athlete and Olympic participant who - starting for the GDR - was a successful hammer thrower in the 1970s and early 1980s .
At the Junior European Championships he won silver in the shot put (17.61 m) and gold in the hammer throw (70.78 m). The following year he became vice European champion (77.24 m) in the adult division, which was to remain his greatest success. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow he reached fourth place (77.54 m) and at the European Championships in 1982 Steuk was seventh (74.76 m). In Helsinki in 1983 he made only one valid attempt (72.10 m) at the first world championships and ended up in twelfth place. Steuk was GDR champion six times in a row from 1978 to 1983 .
Roland Steuk belonged to the TSC Berlin . During his active time he weighed 120 kg and was 1.89 m tall. As part of the state doping in the GDR , Steuk also took anabolic steroids . He married the middle-distance runner Martina Kämpfert .
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
- ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 183
- ↑ A diabetic athlete was injected to the physical wreck , Berliner Zeitung April 7, 1994
Web links
- Roland Steuk in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steuk, Roland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete and Olympian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |