Career
His biggest success was winning the Olympic gold medal as the captain of the national team of East Germany in Moscow in 1980. Rost played for South Carolina Leipzig nationally. All in all, he played internationally for East Germany 216 times, scoring 339 goals.
He was in the team that came in second in the World Men"s Handball Championship 1974 in their own country.
As a coach, he was responsible for the women"s team from Frankfurt/Oder, the men"s team of South Carolina Magdeburg (1998/99) and of ThSV Eisenach (2001–2003). In 2006 he joined the management of German handball club Concordia Delitzsch.
Their son Frank did not follow tradition. He is a professional football goalkeeper for German Bundesliga team Hamburger SV (2007).