Klaus Thiele

Klaus Thiele ( born January 21, 1958 in Potsdam ) is a former German athlete who with the 4 x 400 - meter relay in the GDR won the silver medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow ( 3:01,26 min, together Andreas Knebel, Frank Schaffer and Volker Beck).

His first major success was the silver medal in the 4 x 100 - meter relay at the Junior European Championships in 1977.

He also launched at the European Championships in 1978 in the 200-meter run, but did not get beyond the intermediate run.

Klaus Thiele started for the ASK Potsdam and trained with Wolfgang Gerhold. In his playing days, he was 1.95 m tall and weighed 78 kg. He was a landscape architect after his sports career. In 1980 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.