Klaus-Dieter Kurrat

Klaus -Dieter Kurrat ( born January 16, 1955 in Nauen ) is a German track and field athlete and Olympic medal winner who - starting for the GDR - was a successful 100 - meter runner.

Life

At the Junior European Championships, he won three gold medals, in the 100 and 200 meters as well as the 4 x 100 - meter relay. His greatest achievement is the silver medal at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal with the 4 x 100 - meter relay of the GDR ( 38.66 s, together with Manfred Kokot, Alexander Thieme and Jörg Pfeifer ), for which he with the Patriotic Order of Merit Award Bronze. Also in the 100 meters he reached the final, finishing in 10.31 s seventh.

At the European Indoor Championships in 1977 Kurrat Fourth was over 60 meters. In 1979, he reached number five in the Indoor Athletics Championships. In Moscow, he was eliminated in the 1980 Olympic Games in the intermediate run. In 1981, he resigned.

Kurrat belonged to the ASK Potsdam and trained with Peter Hunold. In his playing days, he was 1.70 m tall and weighed 69 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 Kurrat.

1978 married Kurrat the gymnast Kerstin Gerschau. After his retirement, he worked as a coach, later in the control of transit traffic. After the end of the GDR, he ran a gym, was a coach in the sport forum in Kleinmachnow and was CEO of a sports and wellness center in Wildau.