Ron Beer
Ron Beer (born August 29, 1965 in East Berlin ) is a former German athlete . In 1986 and 1988 he was the GDR champion in the long jump .
Beer won the Junior European Championships in 1983 with 7.93 m. In 1984 he finished third at the GDR indoor championships, a result that he repeated in 1985 and 1986. In 1985 he came third at the GDR outdoor championships, and in 1986 he won his first championship title. In 1987 Ron Beer was GDR indoor champion, at the 1987 European Indoor Championships in Liévin he finished seventh with 7.87 m. In 1988 Beer won his second indoor championship title and his second outdoor title. On July 20, he achieved the longest jump of his career in Berlin with 8.23 m. In 1989 Beer reached second place behind Marco Delonge at the GDR championships .
Beer started for SC Dynamo Berlin , with a height of 1.83 m, his competition weight was 79 kg. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the reunification , the name of Beer was also found among the doped athletes.
Ron Beer comes from a family of athletes. His mother Sigrid Albert was GDR champion several times in the 1960s with the SC Dynamo Berlin relay. His father Klaus Beer was second in the 1968 Olympic long jump behind Bob Beamon , Ron's younger sister Peggy Beer was successful as a heptathlete.
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. 181
Web links
- Athlete portrait by Ron Beer ( memento from April 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at the IAAF (English)
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| SURNAME | Beer, Ron |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Berlin |