Name Torsten Voss Height 1.86 m | Role Olympic athlete | |
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Olympic medals Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's decathlon | ||
1926
Torsten Voss (sometimes listed as Thorsten Voss, born 24 March 1963 in Gustrow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is an East German-German track and field athlete and bobsledder who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s.
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His biggest success was when he won the world title in the decathlon at the 1987 World Championships in Rome as a representative for East Germany. He achieved a personal best score of 8680 points and was chosen as the East German sportsman of the year. In 1988 in the Seoul Summer Olympic Games he won the silver medal behind fellow East German, Christian Schenk. His personal best of 8680 points ranks him fifth among German decathletes, behind Jurgen Hingsen, Uwe Freimuth, Siegfried Wentz and Frank Busemann.
In 1994 Voss switched to bobsleigh and was a pusher for Harald Czudaj and Wolfgang Hoppe. He won three medals in the four-man event at the FIBT World Championships with one silver (1997 with Dirk Wiese) and two bronzes (1995 with Czudaj, 1996 with Hoppe). Voss also finished eighth in the four-man event at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
As a track and field athlete he was 1.86 meters tall and weighed 88 kilograms.