Jürgen Schult

Jürgen Schult

Medal record
Men’s Athletics
Representing East Germany / Germany
Olympic Games
	1988 Seoul	Discus
	1992 Barcelona	Discus
World Championships
	1987 Rome	Discus
	1999 Seville	Discus
	1993 Stuttgart	Discus
	1997 Athens	Discus
European Championships
	1990 Split	Discus throw
	1998 Budapest	Discus throw
	1994 Helsinki	Discus throw

Jürgen Schult (born May 11, 1960 in Amt Neuhaus, Lower Saxony) is a German track and field athlete and the current world record holder in the discus throw since 1986. Schult represented East Germany in the 1988 Olympic competition in the discus throw on October 1, 1988, where he won the gold medal.

Later in his long sport career he joined the reunified German team. He competed in a second Olympic Games in 1992, getting a silver medal, and the 1999 World Championships, again getting second place. He competed in his final Olympics in 2000 at the age of 40, finishing in 8th place.

After he was unable to compete in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles due to his country's boycott of the games, he set a world record in the discus in 1986. With a throw of 74.08 meters he bested the previous record of Soviet athlete, Yuriy Dumchev, by 2.22 meters.

In 1988, at the first track and field competition ever between East and West Germany, Schult refused to shake hands with the man who had beat him, Wolfgang Schmidt, who had very shortly before moved from East to West Germany.

Schult has a degree in sport and in 2002 became the trainer of the German track and field association's men's discus team.

Career results

• 1979, Junior European championship: 1st place
• 1983, World championship: 5th place (64.92)
• 1986, European championship: 7th Place (64.38)
• 1987, World Championship: 1st place (68.74)
• 1988, Olympic Games: 1st place (68.82)
• 1990, European championship: 1st place (64.58)
• 1991, World championship: 6th place (63.12)
• 1992, Olympic Games: 2nd place (64.94)
• 1993, World championship: 3rd place (66.12)
• 1994, European championship: 3rd place
• 1995, World championship: 5th place (64.44)
• 1996, Olympic Games: 6th place
• 1997, World championship: 3rd place (66.14)
• 1998, European championship: 2nd place
• 1999, World championship: 2nd place (68.18)
• 2000, Olympic Games: 8th place (64.41)

Schult represented the Traktor Schwerin sport club and trained with Dr. Hermann Brandt, later he represented the Schwerin and Riesa sport clubs and trained with Thomas Schult. While he was actively competing he was 1.93 meters tall and weighed 110 kilograms.