Carsten Embach (born 12 October 1968 in Stralsund) is a German

bobsled Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Feder ...

der who competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. Competing in two

Winter Olympics The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were h ...

, he won two medals in the four-man event with a gold in 2002 and a bronze in

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Biography

Embach also won six medals in the four-man event at the

FIBT World Championships The IBSF World Championships (known as the FIBT World Championships until 2015), part of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, have taken place on an annual basis since 1930. Starting with 2002, championships of non-Winter Olympi ...

with four golds (

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, 2003), one silver ( 2001), and one bronze ( 1996). Before turning to bobsleigh Embach competed in the

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a ...

. He finished fifth at the 1990 European Indoor Championships with a jump of 7.83 metres. His personal best jump was 8.01 metres, achieved in June 1990 in

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream o ...

.World men's all-time best long jump (last updated 2001)
/ref> He represented the club ASK Vorwärts Potsdam.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Embach, Carsten 1968 births Living people East German male long jumpers German male bobsledders People from Stralsund Bobsledders at the 1994 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 2002 Winter Olympics Olympic bobsledders of Germany Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania