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Falk Balzer

German hurdler

110 m hurdles: 13.10 (1998)
Indoors
60 m hurdles: 7.41 NR (1999)

Medal record

Men's athletics

Representing

Germany

Event	1st	2nd	3rd
World Cup	1	0	0
World Indoor Championships	0	0	1
Military World Games	0	1	0
European Cup	2	1	0
European Championships	0	1	0
Total	3	3	1

IAAF Continental Cup

1998 Johannesburg

110m hurdles

World Indoor Championships

1999 Maebashi

60m hurdles

Military World Games

1999 Zagreb

110m hurdles

European Championships

1998 Budapest

110m hurdles

European Cup

1999 Paris

110m hurdles

2000 Gateshead

110m hurdles

1998 St. Petersburg

110m hurdles

Falk Balzer (born 14 December 1973 in Leipzig) is a former German hurdler, the son of former East German hurdler Karin Balzer. He is best known for winning the silver medal at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary. He represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Between 1994 and 1997, Balzer studied philosophy and psychology, then German and history until 2004, when he was awarded a master's degree. He also studied law as a minor subject between 1999 and 2003. During his studies, he was part of the Bundeswehr Frankenberg sports promotion group from 1997 until 2000. In his last year, he was awarded the Cross of Honour of the Bundeswehr in silver.^{[citation needed]}

Doping

Balzer tested positive for nandrolone in January 2001.^[1] The German Athletics Federation subsequently handed him a two-year doping ban.^[2]

References

^ "Falk Balzer suspendiert" [Falk Balzer suspended]. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 22 February 2001.
^ "Two-year ban for hurdler Balzer". The Irish Times. 12 June 2001. Retrieved 3 November 2021.