Thomas Schönlebe

Thomas Schönlebe
Thomas Schönlebe (1986)
nation	DDR , Germany
birthday	6th August 1965 (age 55)
place of birth	Frauenstein
size	185 cm
Weight	71 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter run
Best performance	44.33 s
society	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt LAC Erdgas Chemnitz
Trainer	Peter Dost
status	resigned
Medal table
World championships 1 × 0 × 1 × Indoor world championships 2 × 0 × 0 × European championships 0 × 2 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 European Championships 2 × 0 × 0 ×
World championships gold Rome 1987 400 m bronze Stuttgart 1993 4 × 400 m  Indoor world championships gold Paris 1985 400 m gold Seville 1991 4 × 400 m  European championships silver Stuttgart 1986 400 m silver Split 1990 400 m bronze Split 1990 4 × 400 m  European Indoor Championships gold Madrid 1986 400 m  Junior European Championships gold Schwechat 1983 400 m gold Schwechat 1983 4 × 400 m

Thomas Schönlebe (born August 6, 1965 in Frauenstein ) is a former German athlete . In 1987 he became world champion over 400 meters for the GDR .

Career

Thomas Schönlebe started for SC Karl-Marx-Stadt (renamed SC Chemnitz in 1990), from 1994 until the end of his active career in 1997 for LAC Erdgas Chemnitz, which resulted from a merger of the athletics sections of SC Chemnitz and VfL Chemnitz . At the age of 18 he was European Junior Champion in 1983; at the world championships in 1983 he was sixth in the 400-meter run . His greatest success was the world championship title in 1987 . This makes him the only European to have won a world championship on the 400-meter course. His time from then, 44.33 s, is still the current European record. (As of August 15, 2016). On February 5, 1988, he set an indoor world record in Sindelfingen with 45.05 s. This time is still the valid indoor European record. (As of May 4, 2019). Schönlebe took part in the Olympic Games in 1988 , 1992 and 1996 , but without winning a medal. In his playing days he was 1.85 m tall and weighed 71 kg. After his sports career he worked as a banker in Chemnitz ; he is the managing director of the sports club LAC Erdgas Chemnitz.

More Achievements

• European championships
  • 1986 : 2nd place in the 400 meter run (45.50 s); 6th place with the 4 x 400 meter relay (3: 04.87 min)
  • 1990 : 2nd place in the 400 meter run (45.13 s); 3rd place with the 4 x 400 meter relay (3: 01.51 min, together with Rico Lieder , Karsten Just , Jens Carlowitz )
• GDR champions 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988
• German champion in 1992 and 1993
• multiple Saxon master

Doping allegations

In 1991, anti-doping opponents Brigitte Berendonk and Werner Franke were able to secure several dissertations and post-doctoral theses by former GDR doping researchers at the Bad Saarow Military Medical Academy . The work made it possible to reconstruct the state-organized doping practice of many well-known GDR competitive athletes, including Thomas Schönlebe. According to the information, Thomas Schönlebe was given Oral-Turinabol from 1983 to 1984 . At that time he was trained by the later DLV national trainer Peter Dost .

Web links

Commons : Thomas Schönlebe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Thomas Schönlebe in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Thomas Schönlebe in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brigitte Berendonk: Doping documents - From research to fraud. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-540-53742-2 , p. 120, table 5