Kai Karsten (born 22 June 1968) is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the
400 metres
The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor running track, it is ...
.
Karsten competed for the club
Eintracht Braunschweig
Braunschweiger Turn- und Sportverein Eintracht von 1895 e.V., commonly known as Eintracht Braunschweig () or BTSV (), is a German football and sports club based in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. They compete in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier o ...
, which in athletics enters a joint team with other Braunschweig-based clubs under the name of ''LG Braunschweig''. In 1994, he won the
national championship
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in the 400 metres.
Karsten represented Germany in the
4 × 400 metres relay
The 4 × 400 metres relay or long relay is an athletics track and field, track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 400 metres or one lap, totaling 1600 meters. It is traditionally the final event of ...
events at the
1994 European Athletics Championships
The 16th European Athletics Championships were held from 7 August to 14 August 1994 in the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki, Finland.
Men's results
Complete results were published.
Track
1986 , 1990 , 1994 , 1998 , 2002 ,
Field
1986 , 1990 , 19 ...
in
Helsinki
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,
the
1995 World Championships in Athletics
The 5th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Ullevi, Ullevi Stadium, Gothenburg, Sweden on 5–13 August 1995.
This edition featured 1804 athletes from ...
in
Gothenburg
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, and the
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
in
Atlanta
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.
References
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1968 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Braunschweig
LG Braunschweig athletes
German male sprinters
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Germany
German national athletics champions
World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany
20th-century German sportsmen
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