Jurgen Mandl

Career

Mandl started out competing for the Sturm Graz club for six years before switching to decathlon in 1980. A back injury prevented him from competing in the World Championships in Athletics though he did compete at the 1986 European Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart, West Germany in the decathlon, but did not finish. but by then Mandl switched to bobsleigh where he found a degree of success.

Achievements

• He earned his best decathlon score of 7646 in 1986 and was national champion the previous year. Mandl won a bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1990 FIBT World Championships in Saint Moritz.