- Martin Weppler
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Medal record Men's Athletics Competitor for 
West GermanyEuropean Championships Gold 1978 Prague 4x400m Relay Martin Weppler (born 21 February 1958) is a retired West German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.
Biography
He was born in Schramberg.[1] He won a gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1978 European Championships together with Franz-Peter Hofmeister, Bernd Herrmann und Harald Schmid.[2] He won a silver medal in 400 metres behind Andreas Knebel at the 1981 European Indoor Championships.[3] At the 1983 World Championships he entered the 400 m competition without reaching the final and ran in the opening round of the relay race.[citation needed] The same thing happened at the 1984 Summer Olympics.[1]
Domestically he won bronze medals at the West German championships in 1978, 1979, 1981 and 1983. He represented the sports team VfB Stuttgart, and VfL Sindelfingen from 1983.[4]
His personal best was 45.74 seconds, achieved in July 1983 in Munich.[5]
References
- ^ a b "Martin Weppler". Sports-Reference.com. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/we/martin-weppler-1.html. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
- ^ "1994 European Championships, men's high jump". Sporting-Heroes.net. http://www.sporting-heroes.net/athletics-heroes/stats_athletics/european/1978_m.asp#4x400. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
- ^ "European Indoor Championships (Men)". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/ei.htm. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
- ^ "West German championships medalists, men's 400 metres". Sport-Komplett. http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/l/leichtathletik/hst/86.html. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
- ^ World men's all-time best 400m (last updated 2001)
European Champions in Men's 4 x 400 m relay 1934: Germany (Hamann, Scheele, Voigt, Metzner) • 1938: Germany (Blazejezak, Bues, Linnhoff, Harbig) • 1946: France (Santona, Cros, Chef d’Hotel, Lunis) • 1950: Great Britain (Pike, Lewis, Scott, Pugh) • 1954: France (Haarhoff, Degats, Martin du Gard, Goudeau) • 1958: Great Britain (Sampson, MacIsaac, Wrighton, Salisbury) • 1962: West Germany (Kindermann, Schmitt, Reske, Kinder) • 1966: Poland (Werner, Borowski, Grędziński, Badeński) • 1969: France (Bertould, Nicolau, Carette, Nallet) • 1971: West Germany (Schlöske, Jordan, Jellinghaus, Köhler) • 1974: Great Britain (Cohen, Hartley, Pascoe, Jenkins) • 1978: West Germany (Weppler, Hofmeister, Herrmann, Schmid) • 1982: West Germany (Skamrahl, Schmid, Giessing, Weber) • 1986: Great Britain (Redmond, Akabusi, Whittle, Black) • 1990: Great Britain (Sanders, Akabusi, Regis, Black) • 1994: Great Britain (McKenzie, Black, Whittle, Ladejo) • 1998: Great Britain (Hylton, Baulch, Thomas, Richardson) • 2002: Great Britain (Deacon, Elias, Baulch, Caines) • 2006: France (Djhone, M'Barke, Keïta, Raquil) • 2010: Russia (Dyldin, Aksyonov, Krasnov, Trenikhin)
Categories:- 1958 births
- Living people
- People from Schramberg
- Sprinters
- West German athletes
- Olympic athletes of West Germany
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
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