Werner Günthör

Werner Günthör
nation	Switzerland
birthday	June 1, 1961
place of birth	Uttwil
size	200 cm
Weight	128 kg
Career
discipline	Shot put
Best performance	22.75 m
society	STB Bern, LC Zurich
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 3 × 0 × 0 × European championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Indoor world championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Seoul 1988 21.99 m World championships gold Rome 1987 22.23 m gold Tokyo 1991 21.67 m gold Stuttgart 1993 21.91 m European championships gold Stuttgart 1986 22.22 m Indoor world championships silver Indianapolis 1987 21.61 m gold Seville 1991 21.17 m

Werner Günthör (born June 1, 1961 in Uttwil ) is a former Swiss athlete .

Life

Günthör was the best shot putter in his country in the history of athletics. With a best distance of 22.75 m, achieved on August 23, 1988 in Bern, he is eighth in the all-time best list worldwide (as of April 2020). The 2.00 m tall model athlete also tried his hand at bobsledding in Ekkehard Fasser's team . The trained plumber later completed a sports degree and now works 50% of the time at the Federal Office for Sports BASPO in Magglingen. In the remaining time he is involved in projects as a self-employed person, holds seminars or advises top athletes on training or career planning. He is married and lives in Erlach .

According to his doctor Bernhard Segesser, Günthör was treated with Stromba ( stanozolol ) for rehabilitation after an injury , which is listed as a prohibited substance on the doping list. The Swiss Doping Investigation Commission (DUK) determined in 1993, however, that between 1984 and 1988 anabolic steroids were treated three to four times over a period of several weeks , and that the “therapeutic” administration also violated the national and international doping regulations applicable at the time.

Top performances

• Shot put: 22.75 m, August 23, 1988 in Bern , Swiss record
• Discus throw : 54.48 m, August 24, 1985 in Yverdon

literature

• Werner Günthör in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Ruedi Stettler: Werner Günthör. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , Vol. 61, 1986, pp. 51-60. ( e-periodica.ch )

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andreas Singler, Gerhard Treutlein : Doping in top sport , Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 2000, p. 292
2. ↑ Final report for the attention of “Sport Schweiz”. ( Memento of October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ( PDF ; 760 kB) Doping Investigation Commission (DUK), Bern, May 17, 1993
3. ↑ That stuff made me wild . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1990 ( online ).
4. ^ Report of the 1993 doping investigation commission antidoping.ch of August 14, 2013
5. ^ DUK report from May 25, 1993 antidoping.ch