Background
Beer was born in Liegnitz (Legnica), Province of Lower Silesia.
Beer was born in Liegnitz (Legnica), Province of Lower Silesia.
He came in second at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in 1970. He has coached Kofi Amoah Prah and Steffen Landgraf.
Beer won the silver medal in the long jump at the 1968 Summer Olympics, well behind Bob Beamon"s record setting performance – Beamon jumped 8.90 m, while Beer jumped 8.19 m. Beer was a seven time (1961, 1962, 1964, 1967–1970) East German champion competing outdoors and a national champion four times (1965, 1968–1970) indoors. He also came in second at the 1970 European Cup Finals, Europe"s team championship, which East Germany won that year.
