Ron Beer (born 29 August 1965) is a retired

East German East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990. Until 1989, it was generally vie ...

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

er. He won the gold medal at the 1983 European Junior Championships and finished seventh at the 1987 European Indoor Championships. He represented the sports club

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, and became East German champion in 1986 and 1988. His personal best jump is 8.23 meters, achieved in July 1988 in

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. This ranks him eighth among German long jumpers, behind

Lutz Dombrowski Lutz Dombrowski (born 25 June 1959) is a former German people, German track and field athlete and Olympic champion. Early life Dombrowski was born in 1959 in Zwickau. Wilhelm Pieck, who at the time of Dombrowski's birth was Leadership of ...

, Frank Paschek,

Josef Schwarz Josef "Sepp" Schwarz (born 20 May 1941 in Strabowitz, Sudetenland, 9.Germany; today Třebovice, Czech Republic) is a retired German long jumper. He represented West Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Schwarz set the world's best year p ...

Henry Lauterbach Henry Lauterbach (born 22 October 1957 in Buttstädt, Bezirk Erfurt) is a retired East German high jumper and long jumper. In the high jump he finished fourth at the 1978 European Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia and sixth at the 1979 ...

, Marco Delonge,

Konstantin Krause Konstantin Krause (born 8 October 1967, in Bad Langensalza) is a retired German long jumper. He won the silver medal at the 1992 European Indoor Championships. He represented the sports clubs TV Wattenscheid, TV Heppenheim and LG Ohra/Hörsel, ...

and

Dietmar Haaf Dietmar Haaf (born 6 March 1967 in Bad Cannstatt) is a former (West) German long jumper. Career He won the gold medal at the 1990 European Championships in Split in a personal best jump of 8.25 metres. The following year he won the gold medal ...

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