Frank Mantek
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| Born | 20 January 1959 Jena, Bezirk Gera, East Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 89 kg (196 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Frank Mantek (born 20 January 1959) is a German weightlifting coach and a retired weightlifter. He won a bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the middle-heavyweight (under 90 kg) category, which also qualified as a bronze medal at world championships. In 1982 he won another combined bronze medal in the world/European championships.[1][2]
He retired in 1983 and later admitted taking the performance-enhancing drug Oral Turinabol as part of the East German training system.[3] According to the doping expert Werner Franke, with an annual dose of 7600 mg Mantek was the second most doped East German athlete.[4] Since 1990 he is a head coach of the German Weightlifting Federation, raising such athletes as Matthias Steiner. He suffered a heart attack in 1995, which he attributed to his past doping practice.[3]
References
- ^ Frank Mantek Archived 7 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
- ^ Frank Mantek. chidlovski.net
- ^ a b Die vergessenen Jahre. faz.net, 16 June 2009
- ^ Mantek kontert Franke-Attacke Archived 4 September 2012 at archive.today. n24.de, 1 March 2009
External links
- Mantek Frank (GDR). iat.uni-leipzig.de