Steffen Görmer (born 28 July 1968) is a retired

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sprinter who specialized in the

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. He represented the sports club SV Halle. He finished fifth at the

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and eighth at the 1990 European Championships. At the 1993 World Championships he finished sixth in the 4x100 metres relay, together with teammates

Marc Blume Marc Blume (born 28 December 1973 in Lüdinghausen) is a German sprinter who specialised in the 100 metres. Biography He is the twin brother of Holger Blume. Both represented the sports club TV Wattenscheid TV Wattenscheid 01 Leichtathletik i ...

Robert Kurnicki Robert Kurnicki (born 27 March 1965 in Zabrze, Poland) is a retired Polish-German sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres. At the 1993 World Championships he finished sixth in the 4x100 metres relay, together with teammates Marc Blume, Michae ...

and

Michael Huke Michael Huke (born March 30, 1969, in Sondershausen) is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres. He represented the sports club TV 01 Wattenscheid. At the 1993 World Championships he finished sixth in the 4x100 metre ...

. His personal best time was 10.28 seconds, achieved in June 1989 in

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.World men's all-time best 100m
(last updated 2001) He later turned to competing in

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, and participated at the

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where he finished eighth in the four-man event with teammates

Harald Czudaj Harald Czudaj (born 14 February 1963) is a German former bobsledder who competed during the 1990s. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won a gold medal in the four-man event at Lillehammer in 1994. Czudaj also won four medals at the FIBT Wor ...

Torsten Voss Torsten Voss (sometimes listed as Thorsten Voss; ; born 24 March 1963 in Güstrow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is an East German-German track and field athlete and bobsledder who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. His biggest success w ...

(another former athlete) and

Alexander Szelig Alexander Szelig (born 6 February 1966 in Werdau) is an East German-German bobsledder who competed in the early 1990s. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won a gold medal in the four-man event with teammates Harald Czudaj, Karsten ...

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