Carsten Embach (born 12 October 1968 in

Stralsund Stralsund (; Swedish: ''Strålsund''), officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German: ''Hansestadt Stralsund''), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, Neub ...

) is a German bobsledder who competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won two medals in the four-man event with a gold in

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and a bronze in

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Biography

Embach also won six medals in the four-man event at the FIBT World Championships with four golds (

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), one silver (

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), and one bronze (

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). Before turning to bobsleigh Embach competed in the long jump. He finished fifth at the 1990 European Indoor Championships with a jump of 7.83 metres. His personal best jump was 8.01 metres, achieved in June 1990 in Potsdam.World men's all-time best long jump (last updated 2001)
/ref> He represented the club ASK Vorwärts Potsdam.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Embach, Carsten 1968 births Living people East German male long jumpers German male bobsledders People from Stralsund Bobsledders at the 1994 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 2002 Winter Olympics Olympic bobsledders of Germany Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania