Jörg Peter

Jörg Peter (born 23 October 1955 in Dresden) is a German former long-distance runner.

He held the German record over the marathon distance from 1988 till 2015.

Peter won bronze at the 3000 m run at the 1978 European Indoor Championships.

In 1980 he competed for the DDR at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow in the men's 10,000-meter run and finished in 6th place.

In February 1988, he won the Tokyo International Men's Marathon with a 2:08:47, which remained the German Record until 25 October 2015, when Arne Gabius improved the time by 14 seconds.