Christian Schenk
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Christian Schenk (Script error: No such module "IPA".; born 9 February 1965 in Rostock, East Germany) is a former decathlete who competed for East Germany and Germany. He won the gold medal in the decathlon in the 1988 Summer Olympics, held in Seoul, South Korea.
Schenk also won a bronze medal at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo. He missed the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona because of an injury and came fourth in the 1993 World Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart.
His personal best was 8500 points, achieved in August 1993 in Stuttgart. This ranks him ninth among German decathletes, behind Jürgen Hingsen, Uwe Freimuth, Siegfried Wentz, Frank Busemann, Torsten Voss, Guido Kratschmer, Paul Meier and Siegfried Stark.[1] Schenk cleared Template:T&Fcalc in the 1988 Seoul Olympics to share the World Decathlon Best in high jump with Rolf Beilschmidt, until the Canadian Olympic high jump gold medalist Derek Drouin improved the record by 1 centimeter in an decathlon competition in 2017.[2] Schenk was noted for his use of the old-fashioned straddle technique, at a time when the Fosbury flop had become almost universal in competitive high jumping. He retired in 1994.
In August 2018, Schenk confessed that he had used chlorodehydromethyltestosterone during his career, his voluntary doping confession was greeted as a positive signal by the International Olympic Committee.[3]
Personal bests
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| Decathlon | 8,500 points | Stuttgart | August 20, 1993 | 8,500 points |
| 100 metres | 11.21 | Götzis | May 25, 1985 | 825 points |
| Long jump | Template:T&Fcalc | Götzis | June 16, 1990 | 1,079 points |
| Shot put | Template:T&Fcalc | Tokyo | August 29, 1991 | 869 points |
| High jump | Template:T&Fcalc | Seoul | September 28 1988 | 1,152 points |
| 400 metres | 48.78 | Stuttgart | August 19, 1993 | 932 points |
| 110 metres hurdles | 14.78 | Götzis | June 16, 1991 | 930 points |
| Discus throw | Template:T&Fcalc | Götzis | May 31, 1992 | 871 points |
| Pole vault | Template:T&Fcalc | Tokyo | August 30, 1991 | 967 points |
| Javelin throw | Template:T&Fcalc | Stuttgart | August 20, 1993 | 893 points |
| 1500 metres | 4:13.77 | Split | August 29, 1990 | 700 points |
| Virtual Best Performance | 9,218 points | |||
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