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Volker Beck

1956 - Today

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Volker Beck (born 30 June 1956 in Nordhausen, Bezirk Erfurt) is a former East German athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 1980 Summer Olympics. With the best 400 m hurdler in the late 1970s and early 1980s Edwin Moses missing due to the boycott, the most likely winner of the Olympic gold was Volker Beck, the East German 400 m hurdles champion in 1980, 1981 and 1983. In Moscow, Beck won the 400 m hurdles in 48,70 s, beating second-placed Vasyl Arkhypenko from Soviet Union by 0.16 seconds, although it was the slowest Olympic final since 1964. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Volker Beck has received more than 13,334 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Volker Beck is the 2,315th most popular athlete (down from 1,143rd in 2019), the 5,798th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,658th in 2019) and the 222nd most popular German Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Volker Beck ranks 2,315 out of 6,025. Before him are Wayne Frye, Berhane Adere, Ryan Crouser, Zdravka Yordanova, Ivana Španović, and Milena Duchková. After him are Klára Fried-Bánfalvi, Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk, Nate Brooks, Aleksandr Timoshinin, Simon Dickie, and Marshall Wayne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Volker Beck ranks 595. Before him are Brahmanandam, Uri Caine, Mani Ratnam, Larry Charles, Katalin Szili, and Jean-René Bernaudeau. After him are Dieter Kühn, Gert Frank, Hart Bochner, David Wolf, Paige O'Hara, and Tom Irwin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Volker Beck ranks 5,798 out of 7,253. Before him are Wolfgang Güldenpfennig (1951), Alexander Dreymon (1983), Gerhard Thiele (1953), Alexander Zorniger (1967), Bernd Dreher (1966), and Katja Seizinger (1972). After him are Nele Neuhaus (1967), Dieter Kühn (1956), Rainer Simon (1941), Sandro Wagner (1987), Julia Reda (1986), and Peter Müller (1955).

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Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Volker Beck ranks 222. Before him are Katrin Dörre-Heinig (1961), Guido Kratschmer (1953), Stefan Junge (1950), Joachim Mattern (1948), Jochen Schümann (1954), and Wolfgang Güldenpfennig (1951). After him are Margit Schumann (1952), Ramona Neubert (1958), Dieter Baumann (1965), Kirsten Emmelmann (1961), Werner von Moltke (1936), and Thomas Schönlebe (1965).

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