Jens Carlowitz

Jens Carlowitz ( born August 8, 1964 in Karl- Marx-Stadt ) is a retired German athlete, who was the 400 - meter runner successful in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was European Indoor champion in 1988, won two bronze medals at the European Championships in 1990, when he started for the East in the 400 - meter dash and the 4 x 400 - meter relay, and was founded in 1991 with the squadron World Indoor champion.

Life

Carlowitz won two silver medals in the 400m and gold with the GDR relay at the European Junior Championships in 1981 and 1983. On 3 June 1984, he ran in Erfurt with Guido Lieske, Mathias shear Sing and Thomas Schönlebe ( Carlowitz as third runner ) in 3:00,07 minutes a European record. He also launched at the World Championships in 1987, where he retired in individual and team competition, each in the semifinals.

1988 Carlowitz was over 400 meters, indoor European champion. In the 1988 Olympics he was eliminated in the semifinals of the 400 m, with the 4 x 400 - meter relay, he was ranked fourth in 3:01,13 min. In 1989 he was with the East German team in both the European Cup and the World Cup runner-up. In 1990 he was s last GDR champion in the 400 - meter dash in 45.60. At the European Championships in Split he won in a single ( 45.27 s ) and in the relay ( 3:01,51 min, together with Rico songs, Karsten Just, Thomas Schönlebe ) the bronze medal.

1991 won Carlowitz with the relay in world record time, the World Indoor Athletics Championships. In the Freilufsaison he was s the first all-German 400-meter champion in 45.49. At the World Championships in Tokyo, the German squadron was sixth. In 1995 and 1996 he was with the Chemnitz Season again German masters.

Jens Carlowitz competed for the SC Karl- Marx-Stadt (later SC Chemnitz) and the LAC natural gas Chemnitz. In his playing days, he was 1.86 m tall and weighed 76 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 Carlo joke.