Rüdiger Stenzel

Rüdiger Stenzel (born 16 April 1968, in

middle distance

runner who participated in several international championships in the 1990s.

He came second in the 1992 German championships behind

European Championships in Helsinki where Cacho won gold. Later that year, however, Stenzel won the silver medal at the IAAF World Cup behind Noureddine Morceli.^[1]

Stenzel finished tenth at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships and won a silver medal over 1500 m at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships. One of his last appearances was at the 1999 World Championships in Seville where he went out in the semi-finals.

Stenzel won several German titles and set a personal best of 3:33.60 minutes in 1997 in Cologne. This result places him fifth on the German all-time performers list, behind Thomas Wessinghage, Harald Hudak, Jens-Peter Herold and Dieter Baumann.^[2] He competed for the sports club TV Wattenscheid during his active career.