Hartmut Weber (born 17 October 1960 in

Kamen Kamen () is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the district Unna. Geography Kamen is situated at the east end of the Ruhr area, approximately 10 km south-west of Hamm and 25 km north-east of Dortmund. Neighbouring cities, t ...

) is a retired German

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete who competed in the

400 metres The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics (sport), athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor runn ...

. At the 1982 European Championships he won the gold medal with a lifetime best of 44.72 seconds. He also helped win the

4 x 400 metres relay 4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest c ...

with teammates

Erwin Skamrahl Erwin Richard Skamrahl (born 8 March 1958) is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in the 200 and 400 metres. Biography At the 1982 European Championships he finished fourth in the 200 metres, won a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 ...

Harald Schmid Harald Schmid (; born 29 September 1957) is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in the sprints and hurdles. He was one of the best 400 metres hurdles runners in the world during his career. Career Schmid won bronze with the We ...

and Thomas Giessing. At the 1983 World Championships he finished fifth in 400 metres and won a silver medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay with teammates Erwin Skamrahl,

Jörg Vaihinger Jörg Vaihinger (born 8 October 1962) is a retired West German West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the ...

and Harald Schmid. His personal best time of 44.72 seconds ranks him fifth among German 400 m sprinters, behind

Thomas Schönlebe Thomas Schönlebe (born 6 August 1965) is a retired East German track and field athlete who competed in the 400 metres. He won the gold medal at the 1987 World Championships. In that race, he set a European record of 44.33 seconds which still ...

Ingo Schultz Ingo Schultz (born 26 July 1975) is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in the 400 metres. Career Schultz was born in Lingen. He took up athletics in 1997, and ran his first 400 metres race in 1998, clocking in 49.45 second ...

and

Karl Honz Karl Honz (born 28 January 1951) is a retired German sprinter. He held the European record in the 400 metres from 1972 until 1980 with a time of 44.70 s. At the 1972 Summer Olympics he placed seventh in the 400 m and fourth in the 4 × 400 m ...

. In addition he ran the

400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women. On a standard outdoor track, 400 metres is the length of the inside lane, once a ...

in 49.10 seconds in May 1982 in

Dortmund Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the la ...

. This ranks him ninth among German 400 m hurdlers, behind

Olaf Hense Olaf Hense (born 19 November 1967, in Dortmund) is a retired German hurdler. He competed at the 1991 World Championships and the 1992 Summer Olympics without reaching the final. He won a bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1993 Wor ...

Edgar Itt Edgar Itt (born 8 June 1967) is a retired West German athlete. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, ...

Uwe Ackermann Uwe Ackermann (born 12 September 1960 in Zwickau, Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt) is a retired East German hurdler. He won the bronze medal at the 1982 European Championships with 48.64 seconds. His personal best time was 48.50 seconds, achieved in July ...

Thomas Goller Thomas Goller (born 28 October 1977 in Dohna, Bezirk Dresden) is a retired German hurdler. He was banned from competing for two years for doping. Biography He won a bronze medal in a 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1997 European Athletics U23 Champ ...

, Volker Beck,

Carsten Köhrbrück Carsten Köhrbrück (born 19 November 1967) is a retired German hurdler. Köhrbrück was born in Dortmund. He won the bronze medal at the 1985 European Junior Championships. He won a silver medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1990 European ...

and

Gerhard Hennige Gerhard Hennige (born 23 September 1940) is a retired German sprinter. He won a silver medal in the 400 m hurdles at the 1968 Olympics, setting a European record in the semifinals. He was also part of the 4 × 400 m West German teams that finishe ...

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* 1960 births Living people West German male sprinters World Athletics Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Championships athletes for West Germany People from Kamen Sportspeople from Arnsberg (region) {{West Germany-athletics-bio-stub