Jürgen Schult

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Medal record
Men’s Athletics
Competitor for East Germany / Germany
Olympic Games
Gold	1988 Seoul	Discus
Silver	1992 Barcelona	Discus
World Championships
Gold	1987 Rome	Discus
Silver	1999 Seville	Discus
Bronze	1993 Stuttgart	Discus
Bronze	1997 Athens	Discus
European Championships
Gold	1990 Split	Discus throw
Silver	1998 Budapest	Discus throw
Bronze	1994 Helsinki	Discus throw

Jürgen Schult (born May 11, 1960 in Amt Neuhaus, Lower Saxony) is a German track and field athlete, who represented East Germany in the 1988 Olympic competition in the discus throw on October 1, 1988, where he won the gold medal.

Later in his long sport career he joined the reunified German team. He competed in a second Olympic Games in 1992, getting a silver medal, and the 1999 World Championships, again getting second place. He competed in his final Olympics in 2000 at the age of 40, finishing in 8th place.

After he was unable to compete in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles due to his country's boycott of the games, he set a world record in the discus in 1986. With a throw of 74.08 meters he bested the previous record of Soviet athlete, Yuriy Dumchev, by 2.22 meters.

In 1988, at the first track and field competition ever between East and West Germany, Schult refused to shake hands with the man who had beat him, Wolfgang Schmidt, who had very shortly before moved from East to West Germany.

Schult has a degree in sport and in 2002 became the trainer of the German track and field association's men's discus team.

[edit] Career results

1979, Junior European championship: 1st place
1983, World championship: 5th place (64.92)
1986, European championship: 7th Place (64.38)
1987, World Championship: 1st place (68.74)
1988, Olympic Games: 1st place (68.82)
1990, European championship: 1st place (64.58)
1991, World championship: 6th place (63.12)
1992, Olympic Games: 2nd place (64.94)
1993, World championship: 3rd place (66.12)
1994, European championship: 3rd place
1995, World championship: 5th place (64.44)
1996, Olympic Games: 6th place
1997, World championship: 3rd place (66.14)
1998, European championship: 2nd place
1999, World championship: 2nd place (68.18)
2000, Olympic Games: 8th place (64.41)

Schult represented the Traktor Schwerin sport club and trained with Dr. Hermann Brandt, later he represented the Schwerin and Riesa sport clubs and trained with Thomas Schult. While he was actively competing he was 1.93 meters tall and weighed 110 kilograms.