Carsten Köhrbrück (born 19 November 1967) is a retired

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. Köhrbrück was born in Dortmund. He won the bronze medal at the 1985 European Junior Championships. He won a silver medal in the

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at the 1990 European Championships, with teammates Klaus Just, Edgar Itt and

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. He also finished sixth in the hurdles event. He later competed at the 1991 World Championships and the

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without reaching the final. His personal best time was 48.89 seconds, achieved in August 1990 in

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. This ranks him seventh on the German all-time list, behind

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, Olaf Hense, Edgar Itt, Uwe Ackermann,

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and Volker Beck.Top 10 lists in German athletics
- Deutschen Leichtathletik-Verband Köhrbrück represented the sports clubs OSC Berlin and LAC Halensee Berlin. He became German champion in 1990.

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* 1967 births Living people German male hurdlers Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Germany German athletics coaches Sportspeople from Dortmund European Athletics Championships medalists Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games bronze medalists for West Germany Medalists at the 1989 Summer Universiade West German Athletics Championships winners {{Germany-hurdles-bio-stub