Peter Blank
Peter Blank ( born April 10, 1962 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German track and field athlete, who was about 20 years active as a javelin thrower. His first success was winning the German Junior Championship in the high jump in 1983 (2.23 m). Its versatility he gave proof in 1990 when he reached in the decathlon remarkable 7651 points ( The spear flew to 79.80 m). In the long jump he scored in 1988 with 7.41 m personal best.
The computer science student Peter Blank once took in the Olympic Games, European Championships three times and five times at the world championships. He is 1.95 m tall and 103 kg in weight.
He starts for the LG Eintracht Frankfurt. His coach Bernd Bierwisch.
Placements in the javelin
German Championships
Internationally
- 1990 European Championships in Split: 25 with 73.30 m
- 1991 World Championships in Tokyo 11 with 72.62 m
- European Cup 1991 in Frankfurt: third with 82.42 behind the Czech Jan Zelezny with 82.84 and the Russians Viktor Sajtzew with 82.68 m
- World Championships in Stuttgart in 1993: 29 with 74.10 m
- European Championships in Helsinki in 1994: 20 with 74.88 m
- XVI. 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta: 9 with 81.82 m
- 1998 European Championships in Budapest: 7 with 83.66 m
- 1999 World Championships in Seville: 13th with 80.89 m
- 2001 World Championships in Edmonton 17 with 80.96 m
- 2003 World Championships in Paris: 8th with 80.34 m
- Winners at European Winter Challenge 2001