Thomas Munkelt
Thomas Munkelt ( born August 3, 1952 in Zedtlitz ) is a former German track and field athlete. For the GDR, it was 1980 Olympic champion in the 110- meter hurdles.
Life
Rumor was in the 1970s and early 1980s, the dominant European runner on this route. He won at the European Indoor Championships 1973 Bronze 60 -meter hurdles and reached at the European Championships the following year in fourth place. In 1975 he was first GDR champion and won the European Cup in the same year with the 4 x 100 - meter relay. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal Munkelt just ran a disappointing fifth.
In 1977 he became European Indoor Champion and won both the World Cup and the European Cup. The following year he was his European Indoor Championship title defense and won at the European Championships in Prague Munkelt its first international title in the open. In 13.54 s he won ahead of Poland's Jan Pusty and Arto Bryggare from Finland. In 1979, he became the third consecutive European Indoor champion.
His biggest success Munkelt at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In the Olympic final he beat the Cuban Alejandro Casañas to a hundredth of a second. He was also a member of the 4 x 100 - meter relay in the GDR, which ran to fifth place. 1982 Munkelt could successfully defend his European title in Athens. With the 4 x 100 - meter relay in the GDR also he still won a silver medal.
The following year, he was the fourth time European Indoor champion. In the outdoor season, he won the European Cup, although again, Munkelt had at the inaugural World Championships, however, with a fifth content. After the announcement of the GDR to boycott the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, finished Munkelt 1984 his active career, had during he 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982 and 1983 respectively won the title at the East German Championships and 1978 and 1979 DDR - hall manager had become.
Rumor has launched for the SC DHfK Leipzig. He had a competition weight of 78 kg at a height of 1.85 m. 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 Munkelt.
Rumor was honored for his sporting achievements in 1980 and 1984 with the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.
Rumor has studied dentistry at the SME Leipzig and became a dentist in Kitzscher near Leipzig.