Volker Beck (athlete)

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Olympic medal record
Men's Athletics
Gold 1980 Moscow 400m hurdles
Silver 1980 Moscow 4x400m relay

Volker Beck (born June 30, 1956 in Nordhausen, Thuringia) is a former East German athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

With the best 400 m hurdler in the late 1970s and early 1980s Edwin Moses missing due the boycott, the best chance of winning the Olympic gold had Volker Beck, the East German 400 m hurdles champion in 1980, 1981 and 1983.

In Moscow, Beck won the 400 m hurdles easily, beating second-placed Vasili Arkhipenko from Soviet Union by 0.16 seconds, although it was the slowest Olympic final since 1964. Beck won his second Olympic medal in 4x400 m relay, when he was beaten to a second place by Soviet anchor Viktor Markin.

After his athletics career, Beck started to work as a coach, among other things he was a coach of German National Team.

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Olympic champions in men's 400 m hurdles
1900: John Tewksbury • 1904: Harry Hillman • 1908: Charles Bacon • 1920: Frank Loomis • 1924: Morgan Taylor • 1928: David Burghley • 1932: Bob Tisdall • 1936: Glenn Hardin • 1948: Roy Cochran • 1952: Charles Moore • 1956: Glenn Davis • 1960: Glenn Davis • 1964: Rex Cawley • 1968: David Hemery • 1972: John Akii-Bua • 1976: Edwin Moses • 1980: Volker Beck • 1984: Edwin Moses • 1988: André Phillips • 1992: Kevin Young • 1996: Derrick Adkins • 2000: Angelo Taylor • 2004: Félix Sánchez
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