Manfred Kokot

Manfred Kokot ( born January 3, 1948 in Templin, Brandenburg ) is a German track and field athlete and Olympic medal winner who - starting for the GDR - was a successful 100 - meter runner in the 1970s. His greatest achievement is the silver medal at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal with the 4 x 100 - meter relay of the GDR ( 39.43 s, together with Klaus -Dieter Kurrat, Alexander Thieme and Jörg Pfeifer ), for which he with the Patriotic Order of Merit Award Bronze.

As the first sprinter in the GDR, he ran the 100 meters in 10.0 s (May 15, 1971, European record ). On February 4, 1973 in Berlin him an indoor world record achieved on the 50 - meter range ( 5.61 s ), which until 1996 had stock.

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Manfred Kokot belonged to the SC Leipzig and trained with Wolfgang Müller. In his playing days, he was 1.76 m tall and weighed 80 kg. After his athletic career Manfred Kokot was an engineer and worked at the Leipzig Central Station. Later he opened a car dealership and a motor-vehicle electrical workshop in his native Templin.