Steven Richter
German athlete (born 2003)
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Steven Richter (born 5 April 2003) is a German discus thrower. The 2026 European Throwing Cup and 2025 European under-23 champion, he competed at the 2023 and 2025 World Athletics Championships and was a silver medalist at the 2025 University Games.[1]
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| Nationality | German | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 April 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Discus throw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Discus: 69.61m (Ramona, 2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
From Gelenau, he is a member of LV 90 Erzgebirge.[2] He won the men's U23 event at the 2023 European Throwing Cup in Leiria, Portugal with a personal best throw of 64.23m.[3]
He retained his men's U23 title at the 2024 European Throwing Cup in Leiria, improving throughout the competition with his final throw being 61.00 metres.[4] He competed for Germany at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, but did not reach the final of the men's discus throw.[5]
He won the men's U23 event at the 2025 European Throwing Cup in Nicosia, Cyprus, winning the competition initially with a 60.46m before improving with a 60.72m throw with the competition's final throw.[6] He threw a personal best 69.61m in Ramona, Oklahoma in April 2025.[7][8]
He won the gold medal at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, leading a German 1-2-3 in the event, ahead of compatriots Mika Sosna and Marius Karges.[9][10] He won the silver medal behind Sosna at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Bochum.[11][12]
In September 2025, he competed in the discus throw at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, without advancing to the final.[13][14] After placing small bets on athletics totally €40, he received a three-month suspended ban from the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), backdated to September 2025, with a "lack of education on betting" rules considered as "one of several mitigating factors in arriving at the sanctions" alongside early admission, genuine remorse, and having previously possessed a clean disciplinary record. His Germany teammate Henrik Janssen received an identical suspended ban.[15]
In February 2026, he won the men’s discus with 64.25m at the German Outdoor Throwing Championships, finishing ahead of Kagnes.[16][17] He won the discus title at the 2026 European Throwing Cup in Nicosia, Cyprus, with a throw of 67.29 metres.[18]
Personal life
He is a student at Chemnitz University of Technology.[12]