Alex Kruger

British athlete

Alex Kruger
Personal information
Full name	Alexander Eaton Kruger
Nationality	English
Born	(1963-11-18) 18 November 1963 (age 60) Öhringen, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Sport
Sport	Athletics

Alexander Eaton "Alex" Kruger (born 18 November 1963 in Öhringen, Baden-Württemberg) is a retired male decathlete from England, who was born in West Germany.

Athletics career

He twice competed for Great Britain at the Summer Olympics (1988 and 1996). Kruger set his personal best (8,131 points) in the men's decathlon in 1995. He represented England, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand^[1]^[2] and four years later represented England at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Achievements

Year	Tournament	Venue	Result	Extra
1988	Olympic Games	Seoul, South Korea	24th	^[6]
1990	Commonwealth Games	Auckland, New Zealand	4th
	European Championships	Split, Yugoslavia	20th
1993	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	19th
1994	Hypo-Meeting	Götzis, Austria	7th	Decathlon
1994	Commonwealth Games	Victoria, Canada	7th
1995	World Indoor Championships	Barcelona, Spain	5th
	Hypo-Meeting	Götzis, Austria	9th	Decathlon
	World Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	12th
1996	Olympic Games	Atlanta, Georgia, United States	DNF	^[6]

References

^ "1990 Athletes". Team England.
^ "England team in 1990". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 4 April 2019. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
^ "1994 Athletes". Team England.
^ "England team in 1994". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
^ ^a ^b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alex Kruger". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.