Gerd Wessig

Men’s athletics
Olympic medal record
Gold	1980 Moscow	High jump

Gerd Wessig (born 16 July 1959) was an East German athlete who competed mainly in the high jump.

6 ft 7 inches tall and a cook by profession, Wessig won the high jump gold 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union with a world record of 2.36m.

Olympic champions in men's high jump
1896: Ellery Clark \| 1900: Irving Baxter \| 1904: Samuel Jones \| 1906: Cornelius Leahy \| 1908: Harry Porter \| 1912: Alma Richards \| 1920: Richmond Landon \| Harold Osborn \| 1928: Robert King \| 1932: Duncan McNaughton \| 1936: Cornelius Johnson \| 1948: John Winter \| 1952: Walter Davis \| 1956: Charles Dumas \| 1960: Robert Shavlakadze \| 1964: Valeriy Brumel \| 1968: Dick Fosbury \| 1972: Jüri Tarmak \| 1976: Jacek Wszoła \| 1980: Gerd Wessig \| 1984: Dietmar Mögenburg \| 1988: Gennadiy Avdeyenko \| 1992: Javier Sotomayor \| 1996: Charles Austin \| 2000: Sergey Klyugin \| 2004: Stefan Holm

Preceded by:
Dietmar Mögenburg, 2.35 m, 1980

High Jump World Record Holders

Record Holder:

Gerd Wessig, 2.36 m, 1980

Succeeded by:
Zhu Jianhua, 2.39 m, 1984

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