Uwe Schmitt (athlete)

Uwe Schmitt
Full name	Uwe Andreas Schmitt
nation	BR Germany
birthday	17th August 1961
place of birth	Marburg ,  FR Germany
size	184 cm
Weight	74 kg
date of death	December 17, 1995
Place of death	Bad Homburg ,  Germany
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	400 m: 45.9 s 400 m hurdles: 49.39 s
society	Eintracht Frankfurt
Medal table
German championships 0 × 1 × 4 ×
German championships bronze 1983 Bremen 400 m hurdles bronze 1984 Düsseldorf 400 m hurdles silver 1985 Stuttgart 400 m hurdles bronze 1986 Berlin 400 m hurdles bronze 1987 Gelsenkirchen 4 × 400 m  Junior European Championships gold 1979 Bydgoszcz 4 × 400 m

Uwe Andreas Schmitt (born August 17, 1961 in Marburg ; † December 17, 1995 in Bad Homburg ) was a West German athlete .

biography

Uwe Schmitt won gold in the 4-by-400-meter relay at the 1979 European Athletics Junior Championships with the German team consisting of Thomas Giessing , Edgar Nakladal and Hartmut Weber . At the German Championships in 1983 , 1984 and 1985 he won the bronze medal and in 1985 the silver medal over 400 meter hurdles.

At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , he stepped over 400 meter hurdles and in the 4 x 400 meter relay , but was eliminated both times in the semifinals.

At the age of 34, Schmitt committed suicide by poisoning.

Web links

• Uwe Schmitt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )