Uwe Ackermann is a retired East German hurdler

400 metres hurdles

The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...

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He won the bronze medal at the 1982 European Championships

1982 European Championships in Athletics

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 with 48.64 seconds.

His personal best time was 48.50 seconds, achieved in July 1982 in Karl-Marx-Stadt. This ranks him fourth among German 400 m hurdlers, behind Harald Schmid

Harald Schmid

Harald Schmid is a former German track-and-field athlete.Schmid was one of the best 400 m hurdles runners in the world. His duels with Edwin Moses during the late 1970s and early 1980s are unforgettable. His race against Moses in Rome, 1987, is ranked as one of the races of the century...

, Olaf Hense

Olaf Hense

Olaf Hense is a retired German hurdler.He competed at the 1991 World Championships and the 1992 Summer Olympics without reaching the final...

 and Edgar Itt

Edgar Itt

Edgar Itt was a West German athlete who competed for West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea where he won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Norbert Dobeleit, Jörg Vaihinger and Ralf Lübke. He finished in eight position in the final of the...

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Uwe Ackermann represented the sports team SC Karl-Marx-Stadt and became East German champion in 1982, 1987 and 1988.