Sports Career
In his time as an active athlete (1964-1973), Kemper became a five-time German champion on the 800 metres (in 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, and 1971). Overall he achieved 11 more titles at the German athletics championships in indoor competition, in relay and in cross-country running. Kemper was active for SC Preußen Münster.
In 1966, he achieved a new European 800 metres record as well as world records in the 1,000 metres and the 4 x 800 metres relay. He took part in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and finished fourth in the 800 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
In 1967, Kemper was awarded the Silberne Lorbeerblatt (the Silver Laurel Leaf), the highest German athletics award.
Read more about this topic: Franz-Josef Kemper
Famous quotes containing the words sports and/or career:
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“I’ve been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)