Oliver-Sven Buder

Medal record
Men’s athletics
World Championships
Silver	1997 Athens	Shot put
Silver	1999 Seville	Shot put
European Championships
Silver	1990 Split	Shot put
Silver	1998 Budapest	Shot put

Oliver-Sven Buder (born June 23, 1966 in Erlabrunn, Saxony) is a German track and field athlete, who in the 1990s belonged to the best shot-putters in the world. The high point of his career came at the World Championships in 1997 and 1999 where he won the silver medal. Until 1990 he represented East Germany.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  Germany
1996	Olympic Games	Atlanta, United States	5th	20.51 m
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	21st	18.89 m

• 1985 Junior European championship: 1st place (19.34m)
• 1990 European championship: 2nd place (20.69 - 20.24 - fault - 21.01 - 20.74 - fault)
• 1991 World championship: 4th place (20.10m)
• 1993 World championship: 7th place (19.74m)
• 1994 European championship: 16th place
• 1995 World championship: 5th place
• 1996 Olympic games: 5th place (20.51m)
• 1997 World championship: 2nd place (21.24m)
• 1998 European championship: 2nd place
• 1999 World championship: 2nd place (21.42m)
• 2000 Olympic games: 8th place

Buder grew up in Niederlungwitz in Saxony. He began as a child in track and field and as his talent emerged he was sent to the children and youth sport school in Karl-Marx-Stadt (later Chemnitz).

He represented the Karl-Marx-Stadt sport club (later Chemnitz sport club). After the reunification of Germany he switched to TV Wattenscheid (trainer: Guenter Stolz, Miroslav Jasinski), in 2001 he went to the MTV Ingolstadt (trainer: Joachim Lipske). While he was active he was 2.00 meters tall and weighed 125 kg.

In 1986 he began studying engineering, but after the fall of East Germany he stopped. Later he began schooling to work in a bank but then changed to industrial buyer. He is married. In 2003 he ended his career after having taken a long break due to injury.

References

External links

• IAAF profile for Oliver-Sven Buder
• Sports Reference
• European Championships

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Name	Buder, Oliver-Sven
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Date of birth	June 23, 1966
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