Christian Schenk

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Medal record
Men's athletics
Olympic Games
Competitor for Flag of the German Democratic Republic East Germany
Gold 1988 Seoul Decathlon
World Championships
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Bronze 1991 Tokyo 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]

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Olympic champions in the all around, pentathlon and decathlon
As all-around
1904: Tom Kiely
As pentathlon
As decathlon
1912: Jim Thorpe/Hugo Wieslander • 1920: Helge Løvland • 1924: Harold Osborn • 1928: Paavo Yrjölä • 1932: James Bausch • 1936: Glenn Morris • 1948+1952: Bob Mathias • 1956: Milt Campbell • 1960: Rafer Johnson • 1964: Willi Holdorf • 1968: Bill Toomey • 1972: Nikolai Avilov • 1976: Bruce Jenner • 1980+1984: Daley Thompson • 1988: Christian Schenk • 1992: Robert Změlík • 1996: Dan O'Brien • 2000: Erki Nool • 2004: Roman Šebrle


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