Ron Beer is a retired East German long jump

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 take off point...

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He won the gold medal at the 1983 European Junior Championships and finished seventh at the 1987 European Indoor Championships

1987 European Indoor Championships in Athletics

The 18th European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at Stade Couvert Régional in Liévin, a city in France, in 1987.-Track:-Field:-Medal table:-External links:* at GBRathletics.com* at GBRathletics.com*...

. He represented the sports club SC Dynamo Berlin

SC Dynamo Berlin

The Sports Club Dynamo Berlin was an East German sports club that existed from 1954 to 1991. It was a training center for the Sports Club Dynamo .-Sporting spectrum:...

, and became East German champion in 1986 and 1988.

His personal best jump is 8.23 meters, achieved in July 1988 in East Berlin

East Berlin

East Berlin was the name given to the eastern part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. It consisted of the Soviet sector of Berlin that was established in 1945. The American, British and French sectors became West Berlin, a part strongly associated with West Germany but a free city...

. This ranks him eighth among German long jumpers, behind Lutz Dombrowski

Lutz Dombrowski

Lutz Dombrowski is a former German track and field athlete and Olympic champion.Dombrowski was the best ever long jumper from the former East Germany. After winning at the European cup in 1979 he won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympic games in Moscow. In 1982, he was European champion. He...

, Frank Paschek

Frank Paschek

Frank Paschek is a retired East German long jumper.He won the silver medal for East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Soviet Union....

, Josef Schwarz

Josef Schwarz

Josef Schwarz is a retired German long jumper. He represented West Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Schwarz set the world's best year performance in the men's long jump in the year 1970: 8.35 metres ; this also was the world record at low altitude, until 1975...

, Henry Lauterbach

Henry Lauterbach

Henry Lauterbach 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 European Indoor Championships in Vienna, Austria. He competed at the 1976 Olympic Games, but did not reach...

, Marco Delonge

Marco Delonge

Marco Delonge is a retired East German long jumper.He won the silver medal at the 1985 European Junior Championships. He represented the sports club SC Dynamo Berlin, and became East German champion in 1987 and 1989....

, Konstantin Krause

Konstantin Krause

Konstantin Krause 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 became German champion in 1998 and 1999.His personal best jump is 8.27 metres, achieved in...

 and Dietmar Haaf

Dietmar Haaf

Dietmar Haaf is a former German long jumper.-Career:He won the gold medal at the 1990 European Championships in Split in a personal best jummp of 8.25 metres. The following year he won the gold medal at the World Indoor Championships in Seville...

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