Steffen Grummt

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Steffen Grummt (born September 15, 1959 in Wilkau-Haßlau ) is a former track and field athlete from the GDR who specialized in the decathlon . In 1985 he switched to bobsleigh and became world champion there.

Steffen Grummt was GDR decathlon champion in 1979. The following year he reached eighth place at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow with 7892 points, with Grummt being the best discus thrower in the field. At the European Championships in Athens in 1982 , he finished fourth with 8218 points. In 1982 Grummt also set his personal best in the decathlon with 8251 points. At the World Championships in Helsinki in 1983 , Grummt was eighth with 8149 points. In September 1983 Grummt finished second in the all-around European Cup together with Uwe Freimuth and Wolfgang Lindner , he achieved 8081 points.

Grummt started as a track and field athlete for SC Motor Jena . With a height of 1.91 m, his competition weight was 82 kg. In the documents on state doping in the GDR that became public after the fall of the Wall , the name of Grummt was found among the doped athletes.

After the Olympic boycott in 1984 , Grummt switched to bobsleigh. In 1985 he was second in the two-man bobsleigh with the pilot Detlef Richter at the World Championships in Cervinia . In the four-man bobsleigh , he started in Bernhard Lehmann's bobsleigh and became world champion together with Matthias Trübner and Ingo Voge . At the 1986 World Championships , he and Detlef Richter won bronze in the two-man bobsleigh. The two won the same medal at the European Championships in 1986. Reports from employees of the State Security led to his being expelled from his association ASK Vorwärts Oberhof and having to end his sporting career in February 1987.

In August 1984 Grummt married the former swimmer Kornelia Ender . Since the fall of the Wall , the couple has lived near Mainz, where Grummt became the deputy managing director of the Sportjugend Rheinland-Pfalz.

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

  1. ^ Brigitte Berendonk : Doping. From research to fraud . Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-499-18677-2 , p. 182
  2. ^ Hilmar Bürger: Steffen Grummt seeks justice , Berliner Zeitung April 28, 1994
  3. Thomas Purschke: Bobsleigh world champion Grummt wins in court , Berliner Zeitung December 14, 1996

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