Steffen Görmer is a retired German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres

100 metres

The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

. He represented the sports club SV Halle.

He finished fifth at the 1989 IAAF World Cup

1989 IAAF World Cup

The 5th IAAF World Cup in Athletics was an international track and field sporting event sponsored by the International Association of Athletics Federations, held on September 8–10, 1989, at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, Spain.-Men:...

 and eighth at the 1990 European Championships

1990 European Championships in Athletics

The 15th European Athletics Championships were held from 26 August to 2 September 1990 in Split, a city in Croatia .It was the last participation of East Germany ....

. At the 1993 World Championships

1993 World Championships in Athletics

The 4th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium, Stuttgart, Germany between August 13 and August 22 with the participation of 187 nations....

 he finished sixth in the 4x100 metres relay, together with teammates Marc Blume

Marc Blume

Marc Blume is a German sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.He is the twin brother of Holger Blume...

, Robert Kurnicki

Robert Kurnicki

Robert Kurnicki is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.At the 1993 World Championships he finished sixth in the 4x100 metres relay, together with teammates Marc Blume, Michael Huke and Steffen Görmer....

 and Michael Huke

Michael Huke

Michael Huke is a retired German sprinter specialized in the 100 and 200 metres. He represented the sports club TV 01 Wattenscheid....

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His personal best time was 10.28 seconds, achieved in June 1989 in Rostock

Rostock

Rostock -Early history:In the 11th century Polabian Slavs founded a settlement at the Warnow river called Roztoc ; the name Rostock is derived from that designation. The Danish king Valdemar I set the town aflame in 1161.Afterwards the place was settled by German traders...

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He later turned to competing in bobsleigh

Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of two or four make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled that are combined to calculate the final score....

, and participated at the 1998 Winter Olympics

1998 Winter Olympics

The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially the XVIII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 7 to 22 February 1998 in Nagano, Japan. Seventy-two nations and 2,176 participans contested in seven sports and 72 events at 15 venues. The games saw the introduction of Women's ice...

 where he finished eighth in the four-man event with teammates Harald Czudaj

Harald Czudaj

Harald Czudaj is an East German-German bobsledder who competed during the 1990s. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won a gold medal in the four-man event at Lillehammer in 1994....

, Torsten Voss

Torsten Voss

Torsten Voss is an East German-German track and field athlete and bobsledder who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s....

 (another former athlete) and Alexander Szelig

Alexander Szelig

Alexander Szelig is an East German-German bobsledder who competed in the early 1990s. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he won a gold medal in the four-event event with teammates Harald Czudaj, Karsten Brannasch and Olaf Hampel at Lillehammer in 1994.Szelig also won three medals in the four-man...

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