Matthias Moder

Matthias Moder ( born June 17, 1963 in Torgau ) is a former track athlete, the 1985 champion of the German Democratic Republic in the hammer throw.

Matthias Moder occupied in 1981 the GDR Championships third place behind Roland Steuk and Tobias stopat. In the years 1982 to 1984, he was ranked at the championships on the bursting four or five. On 11 June 1985 Moder surpassed in Halle for the first time the 80 -meter mark and improved the DDR record by Detlef Gerstenberg. A total of 1985 he succeeded in five competitions a width of 80 meters beyond, on August 3, he was charged with 80.68 m in Dresden second behind Gunther Rodehau, who replaced him with 82.74 m as DDR - record holder. On August 9, he threw in Leipzig 80.04 m and thus won his only East German championship, in the squares were Gunther Rodehau and Ralf Haber. At the Athletics European Cup Moder occupied with 77.88 m in third place.

At the European Championships in 1986 in Stuttgart, the field sorted into three classes. In the first three places, the representative of the Soviet Union lay with lengths of 82 meters and more, in positions four to nine ranked with widths between 79.84 m and 75.36 m, the launcher from the two German states and behind it were the representatives of the other countries. Yuri Sedych won with a world record of 86.74 meters meter before Sergei Litvinov and Igor Nikulin threw exactly 82 meters. Moder finished with 78.70 m at its only major international championships in seventh place, four inches behind Ralf Haber.

Matthias Moder competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin. The trained auto mechanic had a competition weight of 110 kg at a height of 1.84 m.