Steffen Grummt (born 15 September 1959 in
Wilkau-Haßlau
Wilkau-Haßlau is a town in the Zwickau district, in Saxony
Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; h ...
,
Saxony) is an
East German decathlete
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ἄθλος (''áthlos'', or ἄθ ...
who competed from the late 1970s to 1983. He later competed in
bobsleigh in the mid-1980s.
Biography
As a decathlete, Grummt finished eighth at the
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...
in
Moscow. He also finished fourth at the
1982 European Championships in Athletics
The 13th European Athletics Championships were held from 6 September to 12 September 1982 at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.
Men's results
Compl ...
in
Athens and eighth at the
1983 World Championships in Athletics
The 1st 1983 World Championships in Athletics were run under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations and were held at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland between 7 and 14 August 1983.
Summary
The overall med ...
in
Helsinki. Following
East Germany's boycott of the
1984 Summer Olympics
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in
Los Angeles, Grummt switched to bobsleigh where he found better success.
In
bobsledding, Grummt won a complete set of medals at the
FIBT World Championships with a gold (Four-man:
1985
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), a silver (Two-man: 1985), and a bronze (Two-man:
1986
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).
Grummt is head of the sports school in
Mainz,
Germany. He is married to
Kornelia Ender
Kornelia Ender (later Matthes now Grummt, born 25 October 1958 in Plauen, Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt) is a former East German swimmer who at the 1976 Summer Olympics became the first woman swimmer to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games, ...
who won a combined nine medals in women's
swimming at the Summer Olympics in both
1972
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and
1976
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.
References
1982 European championships results
Timesonline.uk profile of Ender
*Wallenchinsky, David (1984). "Track and Field, Men - Decathlon". In ''The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896 - 1980''. New York: Penguin Books. p. 117.
1959 births
Living people
People from Zwickau (district)
Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
German decathletes
German male bobsledders
Olympic athletes for East Germany
Sportspeople from Saxony
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