Ron Beer

Ron Berry ( born August 29, 1965 in Berlin ) is a former track and field athlete from the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He was 1986 and 1988 GDR Champion in the long jump.

Beer won at the 1983 European Junior Championships with 7.93 m. In 1984, he finished in the GDR Indoor Championships in third place, a result which he repeated in 1985 and 1986. In 1985 he was in the GDR championships outdoors Third, in 1986 he won his first championship title. In 1987, Ron Beer DDR indoor champion at the European Indoor Championships 1987 in Liévin he won with 7.87 m in seventh place. 1988 Beer won his second indoor champion title and his second title in the open. On July 20, he succeeded in Berlin with 8.23 m of the longest jump of his career. 1989 reached Beer in the GDR championships second place behind Marco Delonge.

Beer launched for the SC Dynamo Berlin, at a height of 1.83 m his competition weight was 79 kg. In the becoming public knowledge after the fall of documents to the state doping in the GDR was found in the doped athletes also the name of Beer.

Ron Beer comes from a family of athletes. His mother Sigrid Albert was in the 1960s several times GDR champion in the relay from the SC Dynamo Berlin. His father was Klaus Beer 1968 Olympic silver medalist in the long jump behind Bob Beamon, Ron's younger sister Peggy Beer was successful as a heptathlete.