Siegfried Wentz

Siegfried Wentz
nation	Germany
birthday	March 7, 1960
place of birth	Röthenbach near Sankt Wolfgang
size	193 cm
Weight	93 kg
job	doctor
Career
discipline	Decathlon
society	LG Staufen USC Mainz
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 0 × 1 × 1 × European championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Universiade 1 × 0 × 0 × Junior European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze 1984 Los Angeles Decathlon World championships bronze 1983 Helsinki Decathlon silver 1987 Rome Decathlon European championships bronze 1986 Stuttgart Decathlon Universiade gold 1987 Zagreb Decathlon Junior European Championships gold 1979 Bydgoszcz Decathlon

Siegfried "Siggi" Wentz (born March 7, 1960 in Röthenbach near Sankt Wolfgang ) is a former German athlete who - starting for Germany - was one of the world's top decathletes in the 1980s .

Life

Wentz grew up in Lorch and started athletics there when he was 13. In 1978 he was German youth champion in pentathlon and decathlon. The following year, Wentz was European Junior Champion in the decathlon in Bydgoszcz . In 1982 he became German runner-up in the adult division and qualified for the European Championships in Athens . He was there in third place until he failed in the pole vault at the entry height. In the end he was twentieth with 7284 points.

On June 5, 1983 in Filderstadt-Bernhausen he achieved his personal best with 8762 points, with which he is 13th on the all-time world best list (as of November 9, 2016). Shortly afterwards he became German champion for the first time and in Helsinki he won the bronze medal at the world championships with 8478 points. For this he received the silver bay leaf from Federal President Carstens.

He also won bronze at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles (8412 points).

1985 Wentz became German champion in the decathlon for the second time . The following year he started at the German Championships in the 110-meter hurdles and won in a personal best of 13.76 seconds. At the European Championships in Stuttgart in 1986 , he was third (8676 points). A year later, Wentz won the silver medal at the World Championships in Rome with 8461 points. His last major international competition was at the 1990 European Championships in Split, where he finished twelfth (7810 points).

Wentz started for LG Staufen and USC Mainz . During his competition time he weighed 93 kg and was 1.93 m tall. In addition to his sports career, he studied medicine in Mainz. He was a senior physician in Frankfurt and in 2000 became chief physician at the Schluesselbad Clinic in Bad Peterstal in the Black Forest .

Fonts

• Together with Doris Altmaier: Nutrition with fun - exercise with measure , 2004. (Fitness guide)

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
• zurgams (editor): Time leaps . 35 years of the Mösle all-around meeting in Götzis. Bucher Verlag, Hohenems 2009, ISBN 978-3-902679-23-9

Web links

• Siegfried Wentz in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Athlete portrait of Siegfried Wentz ( memento from April 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at the IAAF (English)
• Siegfried Wentz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Bendl: Siggi Wentz turns 50: From Olympic decathlete to chief physician , LG Staufen March 7, 2010
2. ↑ Noticed too late , Der Spiegel , September 13, 1982, p. 202
3. ↑ The IAAF's all-time best list
4. ↑ Federal Archives: Sports Prizes (Silver Laurel): Awarding of the silver laurel leaf to the athletes Patriz Ilg , Willi Wülbeck , Jürgen Hingsen Siegfried Wentz, Andreas Rizzi , Jens Schulze and Guido Kratschmer , signature BArch B 122/29189
5. ^ With the medal over the fence , Baden Online May 15, 2012