Christian Schenk

Men's athletics
Olympic medal record
Gold	Seoul 1988	Decathlon

Christian Schenk (born February 9, 1965 in Rostock, East Germany) won the gold medal in the decathlon in the 1988 Summer Olympics, held in Seoul, South Korea.

Schenk also won a bronze medal at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo. He missed the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona because of an injury and came fourth in the 1993 World Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart.

His personal best was 8500 points, achieved in August 1993 in Stuttgart. This ranks him ninth among German decathletes, behind Jürgen Hingsen, Uwe Freimuth, Siegfried Wentz, Frank Busemann, Torsten Voss, Guido Kratschmer, Paul Meier and Siegfried Stark. [1]

Olympic champions in the all around, pentathlon and decathlon
As all-around: Tom Kiely
As pentathlon: Hjalmer Mellander \| Jim Thorpe \| Eero Lehtonen (twice)
As decathlon: Jim Thorpe \| Helge Løvland \| Harold Osborn \| Paavo Yrjölä \| James Bausch \| Glenn Morris \| Bob Mathias (twice) \| Milt Campbell \| Rafer Johnson \| Willi Holdorf \| Bill Toomey \| Nikolay Avilov \| Bruce Jenner \| Daley Thompson (twice) \| Christian Schenk \| Robert Změlík \| Dan O'Brien \| Erki Nool \| Roman Šebrle