Torsten Voss
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| Olympic medal record | |||
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| Silver | Seoul 1988 | Decathlon | |
Torsten Voss (May 23, 1963 in Güstrow, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) is a German track and field athlete and bobsledder.
His biggest success was when he won the world title in the decathlon at the 1987 World Championships in Rome as a representative for East Germany. He achieved a personal best score of 8680 points and was chosen as the East German sportsman of the year. In 1988 in the Seoul Summer Olympic Games he won the silver medal behind fellow East German, Christian Schenk. His personal best of 8680 points ranks him fifth among German decathletes, behind Jürgen Hingsen, Uwe Freimuth, Siegfried Wentz and Frank Busemann. [1]
In 1994 Voss switched to the bobsled and was a pusher for Harald Czudaj and Wolfgang Hoppe. At World Championships he won three medals: 1995 with Czudaj and 1996 with Hoppe he won bronze; in 1997 he won silver on the four-man team headed by Dirk Wiese.
As a track and field athlete he was 1.86 meters tall and weighed 88 kilograms.
[edit] Other results in decathlon
- 1981 Junior-European championship: 2nd place
- 1982 Junior-World record: 8387 Points; East German champion
- 1983 World championship in Helsinki; East German champion
- 1987 East German champion
- 1990 East German champion
- 1993 (after a break for injury) Second place in the German championship (8037 points)
[edit] References
- This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.
