Christian DÜRING

Sports shooter Christian Düring finished an unfortunate fourth in rapid-fire pistol at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. He tied for second with Romanian Marcel Roşca and Russian Soviet Renart Suleymanov, and entered a shoot-off. Roşca won the silver medal with 147 in the shoot-off to Düring’s and Suleyanov’s 146, but Suleymanov then won the bronze with 148 to Düring’s 147. Düring won the East German nationals in 1972 and 1974. At the 1972 München Olympics he came in 21st.