Siegfried Stark

Siegfried Stark ( born June 12, 1955 in Rehna ) is a German track and field athlete and Olympian, who - starting for the GDR - was successful as a decathlete in the 1970s and 1980s.

Life

He was fourth at the Junior European Championships 1973. 1976 he became the first East German champion. At the Olympic Games, which were held in Montreal in the same year, he came in at number six. In 1977 Stark defend his title. In Prague, he won the European Championships in 1978 behind Alexander Grebenjuk who won with a championship record, and Daley Thompson the bronze medal. 1979 defeated Stark at the European Guido Kratschmer, but at the Olympic Games in Moscow, he had after an injury during the long jump after the second discipline to give up. At the European Championships 1982, he won the bronze medal again. In 1985, he ended his sports career.

Results in international highlights in detail:

The individual results are given in competition order: 100 meters, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400 meters, 110 m hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin, 1500 -meter run.

Stark was a member of the SC tractor Schwerin and was in his competition time 1,86 m tall and 88 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 Stark.

Stark finished in 1982 his sports studies. After his active sports time he was a sports instructor for educators. After the reunification, he was country manager in Austria. After four years he returned to Germany and became head of a sports studios in Ratzeburg.