Uwe-Jens Mey

	Uwe-Jens Mey
nation	German Democratic Republic of Germany;
birthday	December 13, 1963
place of birth	Warsaw
size	180 cm
Career
discipline	Speed skating
status	resigned
Medal table
winter Olympics

Uwe-Jens Mey (born December 13, 1963 in Warsaw ) is a former German speed skater.

Life

The son of a financial clerk and diplomat was born in Warsaw and a few months later moved to the Czechoslovak Republic with his parents for five years . At the age of 6 he came to East Berlin . From 1970 to 1984 he attended the polytechnic high school and the children's and youth sports school with Abitur. Active figure skater from 1972, he started as a figure skater at SC Dynamo Berlin in 1973 under the trainer Heidemarie Steiner-Walther . Mey switched to speed skating and was trained by Rainer Klehr and Joachim Franke . In 1979 he was third in the Children's and Youth Partakiade and in 1982 youth champion of the GDR . From 1984 he studied at the DHfK Leipzig and in 1985 became a member of the VP . Mey was a member of the SED .

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , he won gold over 500 meters and silver over 1000 meters while still starting for the GDR. Four years later he was able to repeat his triumph over 500 meters in Albertville , this time for the all-German team. In addition, from 1988 to 1991 he was able to win the individual world cup over 500 meters four times, in 1989 and 1990 he also won the world cup over 1000 meters.

On March 10, 1994, the CDU parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives appointed him a member of the Federal Assembly for the election of the Federal President.

Awards

1986 Honorary title Master of Sports
1988 Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
2002 Silver bay leaf

literature

Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes, medals and biographies. 2nd updated edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-538-4 , pp. 387-388.
Short biography about: Mey, Uwe-Jens . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Uwe-Jens Mey - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Statistics at speed skating news
Uwe-Jens Mey in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Winner interview - readers ask Olympic champions . In: Junge Welt from March 14, 1988.
^ The Berlin Parliament appointed members to elect the Federal President . In: Neue Zeit , March 11, 1994, p. 18.
↑ Press release from the Office of the Federal President of May 6, 2002: Greetings from Federal President Johannes Rau on the occasion of the awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the Olympic Winter Games 2002 ...

personal data
SURNAME	Mey, Uwe-Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German speed skater
DATE OF BIRTH	December 13, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Warsaw

[1] Winner interview - readers ask Olympic champions . In: Junge Welt from March 14, 1988.

[2] The Berlin Parliament appointed members to elect the Federal President . In: Neue Zeit , March 11, 1994, p. 18.

[3] Press release from the Office of the Federal President of May 6, 2002: Greetings from Federal President Johannes Rau on the occasion of the awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the Olympic Winter Games 2002 ...