Uwe Beyer

Uwe Beyer

Personal information
Born	(1945-04-14)14 April 1945 Timmendorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Died	15 April 1993(1993-04-15) (aged 48) Belek, Turkey
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	110 kg (243 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Hammer throw
Club	Holstein Kiel Bayer Leverkusen
Achievements and titles
Personal best	74.90 m (1971)
Medal record Men's Athletics Representing  Germany Olympic Games Tokyo 1964 Hammer throw Representing West Germany European Championships Helsinki 1971 Hammer throw Budapest 1966 Hammer throw

Uwe Beyer (April 14, 1945 – April 15, 1993) was a West German hammer thrower.

Beyer was born in Timmendorf near Kiel and represented the sports clubs Holstein Kiel, Bayer Leverkusen and USC Mainz.

Beyer won the bronze medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, representing the United Team of Germany, and later finished fourth at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich representing West Germany. He won the gold medal at the 1971 European Championships and finished fifth at the 1974 European Championships.

Midway in this career, he starred as Siegfried in Die Nibelungen (1966/1967 film)

Beyer suffered a fatal heart attack while playing tennis in the Turkish beach resort of Belek, possibly as a delayed result of the use of anabolic steroids throughout his career, to which he freely admitted in a 1981 interview.