Sport Weightlifting Height 1.74 m Club SC Karl-Marx-Stadt Weight 89 kg | Name Frank Mantek Career end 1983 Role Weightlifter | |
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Born 20 January 1959 (age 65) ( 1959-01-20 ) Jena, Germany Olympic medals Weightlifting at the 1980 Summer Olympics - Men's Middle Heavyweight 82.5-90 kg People also search for Matthias Steiner, Peter Baczako, Rumen Aleksandrov | ||
frank mantek
Frank Mantek (born 20 January 1959) is a German weightlifting coach and a retired weightlifter. He won a bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the middle-heavyweight (under 90 kg) category, which also qualified as a bronze medal at world championships. In 1982 he won another combined bronze medal in the world/European championships.
He retired in 1983 and later admitted taking the performance-enhancing drug Oral Turinabol as part of the East German training system. According to the doping expert Werner Franke, with an annual dose of 7600 mg Mantek was the second most doped East German athlete. Since 1990 he is a head coach of the German Weightlifting Federation, raising such athletes as Matthias Steiner. He suffered a heart attack in 1995, which he attributed to his past doping practice.
