Torsten Voss
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Torsten Voss (sometimes listed as Thorsten Voss; German pronunciation: [ˈtɔʁstn̩ ˈfɔs] ; born 24 March 1963 in Güstrow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is a former East German track and field athlete and bobsledder who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s.
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.[1] His personal best of 8680 points ranks him sixth among German decathletes, behind Leo Neugebauer, Jürgen Hingsen, Uwe Freimuth, Siegfried Wentz and Frank Busemann.
In 1994 Voss switched to bobsleigh and was a pusher for Harald Czudaj and Wolfgang Hoppe. He won three medals in the four-man event at the FIBT World Championships with one silver (1997 with Dirk Wiese) and two bronzes (1995 with Czudaj, 1996 with Hoppe). Voss also finished eighth in the four-man event at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
As a track and field athlete he was 1.86 meters tall and weighed 88 kilograms.
Other results in decathlon
[edit]- 1981 Junior-European championship: 2nd place
- 1982 Junior-World record: 8397 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)
References
[edit]- "Bobsleigh four-man world championship medalists since 1930". Sports123.com. Archived from the original on 11 December 2007.
- "1998 bobsleigh four-man results". Shinmai.co.jp.
- ""Ewige" Bestenliste der deutschen Leichtathletik" ["Eternal" list of the best in German athletics] (PDF). leichtathletik.de (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 July 2007.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Torsten Voss". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
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- 1963 births
- Living people
- People from Güstrow
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Bobsledders at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- East German decathletes
- German male bobsledders
- Olympic athletes for East Germany
- Olympic silver medalists for East Germany
- Olympic bobsledders for Germany
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- World Athletics Championships athletes for East Germany
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
- World Athletics Championships winners
- Friendship Games medalists in athletics
- Sportspeople from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Sportspeople from Bezirk Schwerin
- East German Athletics Championships winners