Weightlifter Peter Wenzel won the bronze medal at the 1976 Montréal Summer Games in the middleweight class. At World Championships, he won a gold medal in 1975, silver medals in 1973 and 1977, and bronze medals in 1974, 1976 and 1978-79. At the Europeans he won the gold medal in 1975, silver medals in 1974, 1976-77, and a bronze in 1979.
Domestically, he won the middleweight national title in 1971, 1973-75 and 1977, and the light-heavyweight in 1976 and 1978. After German re-unification, former East German officials admitted to administering doping to nearly all Olympic athletes, including weightlifter Wenzel. His participation at Moskva in 1980 was not possible due to an internal positive doping test shortly before the Games. He later became a coach.
East Germany