- Christian Schenk
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Medal record 
Christian Schenk (left) speaking to Ulf Timmermann in 1989Medal record Men's athletics Olympic Games Competitor for 
East GermanyGold 1988 Seoul Decathlon World Championships Competitor for 
GermanyBronze 1991 Tokyo Decathlon European Championships Bronze 1990 Split Decathlon Christian Schenk (born February 9, 1965 in Rostock, East Germany) won the gold medal in the decathlon in the 1988 Summer Olympics, held in Seoul, South Korea.
Schenk also won a bronze medal at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo. He missed the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona because of an injury and came fourth in the 1993 World Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart.
His personal best was 8500 points, achieved in August 1993 in Stuttgart. This ranks him ninth among German decathletes, behind Jürgen Hingsen, Uwe Freimuth, Siegfried Wentz, Frank Busemann, Torsten Voss, Guido Kratschmer, Paul Meier and Siegfried Stark.[1] Schenk shares the decathlon world record in high jump with Rolf Beilschmidt at 2.27 m.
References
Olympic champions in the men's all-around, pentathlon and decathlon As all-around 1904: Tom Kiely (GBR)
As pentathlon 1912: Jim Thorpe (USA) / Ferdinand Bie (NOR) · 1920: Eero Lehtonen (FIN) · 1924: Eero Lehtonen (FIN)
As decathlon 1912: Jim Thorpe (USA) / Hugo Wieslander (SWE) · 1920: Helge Løvland (NOR) · 1924: Harold Osborn (USA) · 1928: Paavo Yrjölä (FIN) · 1932: James Bausch (USA) · 1936: Glenn Morris (USA) · 1948: Bob Mathias (USA) · 1952: Bob Mathias (USA) · 1956: Milt Campbell (USA) · 1960: Rafer Johnson (USA) · 1964: Willi Holdorf (EUA) · 1968: Bill Toomey (USA) · 1972: Mykola Avilov (URS) · 1976: Bruce Jenner (USA) · 1980: Daley Thompson (GBR) · 1984: Daley Thompson (GBR) · 1988: Christian Schenk (GDR) · 1992: Robert Změlík (TCH) · 1996: Dan O'Brien (USA) · 2000: Erki Nool (EST) · 2004: Roman Šebrle (CZE) · 2008: Bryan Clay (USA)
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