medaltemplates article_title name birth_date
men 's athletics siegfried wentz
 siegfried wentz 7 march 1960
siegfried wentz

siegfried wentz -lrb- born 7 march 1960 in röthenbach -rrb- is a former german track and field athlete .
in the 1980s and until 1990 he represented west germany and belonged to the world elite in the decathlon .
his most notable result was winning the bronze medal at the 1984 summer olympics in los angeles , california .
at that event he scored 8412 points , his results for each of the events were 10.99 s - 7.11 m - 15.87 m - 2.09 m - 47.78 m - 14.35 s - 46.60 m - 4.50 m - 67.68 m - 4:33.96 min .
his personal best result of 8762 points came in filderstadt-bernhausen on 5 june 1983 .
at the end of the 2006 season he was still in 10th place for the best ever in the world .
it ranks him third among german decathletes , only behind jürgen hingsen and uwe freimuth .
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