Thomas Jordan (athlete)

Thomas Michael Jordan (born 15 March 1949 in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a former sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. He represented West Germany and competed for the club Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

He won the gold medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1971 European Championships together with teammates Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske, Martin Jellinghaus and Hermann Köhler. He also competed in the individual contest and finished fifth.

References

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

European Champions in Men's 4 x 400 m relay

1934: Germany (Hamann, Scheele, Voigt, Metzner)
1938: Germany (Blazejezak, Bues, Linnhoff, Harbig)
1946: France (Santona, Cros, Chef d’Hotel, Lunis)
1950: Great Britain (Pike, Lewis, Scott, Pugh)
1954: France (Haarhoff, Degats, Martin du Gard, Goudeau)
1958: Great Britain (Sampson, MacIsaac, Wrighton, Salisbury)
1962: West Germany (Kindermann, Schmitt, Reske, Kinder)
1966: Poland (Werner, Borowski, Grędziński, Badeński)
1969: France (Bertould, Nicolau, Carette, Nallet)
1971: West Germany (Schlöske, Jordan, Jellinghaus, Köhler)
1974: Great Britain (Cohen, Hartley, Pascoe, Jenkins)
1978: West Germany (Weppler, Hofmeister, Herrmann, Schmid)
1982: West Germany (Skamrahl, Schmid, Giessing, Weber)
1986: Great Britain (Redmond, Akabusi, Whittle, Black)
1990: Great Britain (Sanders, Akabusi, Regis, Black)
1994: Great Britain (McKenzie, Black, Whittle, Ladejo)
1998: Great Britain (Hylton, Baulch, Thomas, Richardson)
2002: Great Britain (Deacon, Elias, Baulch, Caines)
2006: France (Djhone, M'Barke, Keïta, Raquil)
2010: Russia (Dyldin, Aksyonov, Krasnov, Trenikhin)