Jens Carlowitz (born 8 August 1964 in

Karl-Marx-Stadt Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the 28th largest city of Germany as well as the fourth largest city in the area of former East Germany ...

) is a retired

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sprinter. His personal best time was 44.86 seconds, achieved at the 1989 World Cup in

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. This places him seventh on the German all-time list, behind Thomas Schönlebe, Erwin Skamrahl,

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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 ...

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and Mathias Schersing.Top 10 lists in German athletics
- Deutschen Leichtathletik-Verband Carlowitz represented the sports club SC Karl-Marx-Stadt.

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1964 births Living people Sportspeople from Chemnitz People from Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt German male sprinters East German male sprinters Olympic athletes for East Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics European Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany World Athletics Indoor Championships winners Friendship Games medalists in athletics {{East Germany-athletics-bio-stub