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Place of Birth: Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Rüdiger Stenzel
- Rüdiger Stenzel (born 16 April 1968, in Gelsenkirchen) is a former German middle distance runner who participated in several international championships in the 1990s. He came second in the 1992 German championships behind Jens-Peter Herold thus qualifying for the Olympic 1500 metres competition where he went out before the final.
- He then got his first international finish with a tenth place at the 1993 World Championships.
- In a race in 1994 he defeated the Olympic champion Fermín Cacho but finished seventh in the 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.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.
- He competed for the sports club TV Wattenscheid during his active career.
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