- Rüdiger Stenzel
Rüdiger Stenzel (born
April 16 1968 inGelsenkirchen ) is a former German middle distance runner who participated in several international championships in the 1990s.He came second in the 1992 German championships behind
Jens-Peter Herold thus qualifying for the Olympic1500 metres competition where he went out before the final. He then got his first international finish with a tenth place at the 1993 World Championships. In a race in 1994 he defeated the Olympic championFermin Cacho but finished seventh in the European Championships in Helsinki where Cacho won gold. Later that year, however, Stenzel won the silver medal at the IAAF World Cup behindNoureddine Morceli . [ [http://www.gbrathletics.co.uk/ic/wp.htm IAAF World Cup in Athletics] (GBR Athletics)]Stenzel finished tenth at the
1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships and won a silver medal over 1500 m at the1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships . One of his last appearances was at the 1999 World Championships inSeville where he went out in the semi-finals.Stenzel won several German titles and set a personal best of 3:33.60 minutes in 1997 in
Köln . This result places him fifth on the German all-time performers list, behindThomas Wessinghage ,Harald Hudak ,Jens-Peter Herold andDieter Baumann . [ [http://www.leichtathletik.de/dokumente/ergebnisse/images/ewige_dlv_bestenliste.pdf Microsoft Word - Ewige DLV-Bestenliste.doc ] ] He competed for the sports clubTV Wattenscheid during his active career.References
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