Kai Karsten

{{short description|German sprinter}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Kai Karsten | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|06|22|df=yes}} | birth_place = Braunschweig, West Germany<ref name=sr>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/kai-karsten-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417223928/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/kai-karsten-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Kai Karsten}}</ref> | height = {{convert|1.88|m|abbr=on}} | weight = {{convert|75|kg|lb|abbr=on}} | country = {{flag|Germany}} | sport = Athletics | event = 400 metres | club = LG Braunschweig | pb = * '''400 m''': 45.95 (1995) }}

'''Kai Karsten''' (born 22 June 1968) is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.

Karsten competed for the club Eintracht Braunschweig,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://gesamtverein.eintracht.com/wir-ueber-uns/erfolge-und-sportgroessen/deutsche-meisterschaften/ | title = Einträchtler bei Deutschen Meisterschaften | language = German | publisher = eintracht.com | accessdate = 11 December 2015 | archive-date = 26 October 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181026125713/https://gesamtverein.eintracht.com/wir-ueber-uns/erfolge-und-sportgroessen/deutsche-meisterschaften/ | url-status = dead }}</ref> which in athletics enters a joint team with other Braunschweig-based clubs under the name of ''LG Braunschweig''. In 1994, he won the national championship in the 400 metres.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.gbrathletics.com/nc/ger.htm | title = German Championships | publisher = gbrathletics | accessdate = 11 December 2015}}</ref>

Karsten represented Germany in the 4 × 400 metres relay events at the 1994 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13693001.html | title = Überall Feindesland | language = German | publisher = Der Spiegel | date = 17 October 1994| accessdate = 11 December 2015}}</ref> the 1995 World Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.<ref name=sr />

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==External links== * {{World Athletics}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Karsten, Kai}} Category:1968 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Braunschweig Category:LG Braunschweig athletes Category:German men sprinters Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic athletes for Germany Category:German national athletics champions Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany Category:20th-century German sportsmen